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Starhill Tower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7601895 ↗
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Starhill Towers & Gallery in Dubai is a twin-tower waterfront development consisting of freehold offices, a 5-star hotel and a luxury shopping mall. The 31-storey office tower of the project offers freehold office spaces ranging from 934 to 1,645 sq ft (86.8 to 152.8 m2).

This project was expected to be delivered by 2010 and was completed on schedule.

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“Starhill Tower” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Starhill, Tower and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Starhill, Tower and Open-knowledge.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7601895. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Starhill Tower” 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.