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Bay Central

residential and hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4873946 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bay Central is a waterfront complex of three mixed-use towers - the Central Tower, the Intercontinental Tower, and the West Tower - in Dubai Marina in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The West Tower, and the Intercontinental Tower have 42 floors each. The Central Tower has 50 floors (180 metres). Construction was completed in December 2012. The Intercontinental Tower houses the Intercontinental Dubai Marina Hotel, while the West Tower and Central Tower contains 747 residential units.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Central, residential and hotel can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4873946. Authority coordinates are 25.079, 55.138. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bay Central” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.