Merano Tower by DAMAC in Business Bay
Merano Tower is a completed residential building in Business Bay, Dubai, developed by DAMAC. The Dubai Land Department register holds it as project number 1680, with 581 units, and records it as finished. DAMAC's own material presents it as a 29-storey tower of furnished apartments, from studios up to three bedrooms, on the water in Business Bay.
For an investor or a landlord, the building is a resale and letting question. The register settles what the building is and when it was recorded as complete. DAMAC's brochure and floor plans set out the apartment types, the layouts and the facilities the developer presented. This page brings those three sources together and keeps each fact with the document it comes from, so you can check any line against its source.
Register status
In the Dubai Land Department register, Merano Tower carries the status finished. The register gives its percentage complete as 100 as at 27 February 2020, and records the completion date as the same day. The start date on the register is 1 October 2015. Read together, the register shows a project that ran from late 2015 to early 2020.
The register names Damac World Real Estate L.L.C as the developer, the company the project is registered under. On its brochure and plans the project carries the DAMAC brand. The register also names Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank as the project's escrow agent.
The 581 units are the register's count for project 1680. DAMAC's documents give no unit total of their own, so the register is the source for that figure throughout this page.
The building and units
DAMAC's brochure describes Merano Tower as a 29-storey building. It places the tower next to a twin-tower hotel complex, with the waterway in front and views over the city on the remaining sides. The cover of the brochure presents the apartments as furnished and on the waterfront, and an inside page repeats that they are furnished.
The apartment mix, as the brochure prints it, is studios together with one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. The floor plans carry a unit plan for each of those four types: one studio, one one-bedroom, one two-bedroom and one three-bedroom layout. The brochure repeats the same four layouts in its unit plans section.
The floor plans also carry typical floor plates for the residential levels, in three groups. One sheet covers level 2. A second covers levels 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 27. A third covers levels 3 to 7, 9, 11 to 14, 17, 19, 21, 22, 26, 28 and 29. Those typical floors run up to level 29, which agrees with the brochure's 29 storeys. The typical floor sheets label the rooms but print no areas, so the plans show how each floor is arranged without giving apartment sizes.
Every unit plan and floor sheet carries DAMAC's standard note that pictures, plans and layouts are indicative and may change up to the final as-built status. In a building the register records as complete, the as-built apartment and its title deed are what settle the detail of any one unit.
Facilities
DAMAC's brochure lists the building's facilities on a single page. The list reads: swimming pool, a gym, parking, a lobby with reception, security around the clock, and landscaped grounds. Later pages expand on several of these.
On the lobby, the brochure describes a styled entrance hall with a reception desk. On fitness, it describes a gym fitted with modern equipment, along with steam rooms and a sauna. For the pool, it describes a landscaped pool area with a temperature-controlled swimming pool.
Another page of the brochure turns to the interiors and invites buyers to add their own personal touches to the furnished apartments. The brochure's description of the apartments as furnished is the developer's own; what furniture is in a particular unit today is a question for that unit's sale.
The brochure was written as sales material, and parts of it speak about the building as a place to move into. Its facilities are reported here as the brochure lists them. The current state of each facility, and the terms on which residents use it, sit with the building's management.
