“I live in India, but I have been spending a lot more time in Dubai. I come here every three to four months and it is growing so rapidly," Salman said. "It is just so beautiful. It has both East and West culture, which is so amazing. And I absolutely love it here.”
Lebanese singer, Nancy Ajram, performed some of her hit songs such as “Ah W Noss”, “Ya Tabtab wa Dallaa”, “Enta Eih”, “Fi Hagat”, “Akhasmak Ah”, “Badna Nwallea El Jaw”, and "Aam Betaala' Feek".
Demand moves toward quieter, low-rise districts
With more residents looking beyond dense tower clusters, developers have increasingly focused on suburban, nature-led masterplans. Sakura Gardens enters that space with a mix of apartments and townhomes set among courtyards, shaded walkways and a central park.
Wissam Breidy, CEO of HRE Development, said the project responds directly to changing priorities.
The project covers 49,000 sqm of land and 127,500 sqm of built-up area, offering studios through three-bedroom units, along with townhomes. HRE Development expects interest from families and professionals seeking larger layouts, competitive pricing and stronger rental yields in emerging areas of Dubailand.
Nivetha Dayanand is Assistant Business Editor at Gulf News, covering aviation, financial markets and commodities. A business and financial journalist with a strong interest in multimedia storytelling, she regularly takes complex financial and economic subjects beyond the written word, producing explainer videos that make them easier for a wider audience to understand.
Nivetha has interviewed senior policymakers, business leaders and global financial figures both on and off camera. Her past guests include UAE Minister of Economy and Tourism Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud, a member of the House of Saud and the founder and CEO of KBW Ventures, Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund and Indian ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and N. Chandrababu Naidu.
She has also hosted and moderated panels, conferences and awards shows, bringing her newsroom experience to live conversations on business, finance and the economy.
An Erasmus Mundus journalism alum, Nivetha is drawn to stories that affect people directly and to reporting that gives a platform to voices that might otherwise go unheard. She was among the first journalists to speak to Petrofac employees in the UAE about unpaid salaries, broke the news of the planned demolition of Dubai’s well-known “Toyota Building”, and helped set the record straight on widely circulated claims that a giant replica of the Moon was coming to Dubai. More recently, her exclusive interview with EDGE Group CEO Hamad Al Marar revealed how the UAE-based defence group deployed its systems along the country’s shore border and established a geofence around the UAE within 48 hours of the February 28 escalation.
Prior to joining Gulf News, Nivetha worked at ITP Media, where she helped launch Finance Middle East, a new publication covering the region’s financial sector. Her role spanned reporting and editing, video production, interviews and events.
Across print, digital, and video, she focuses on finding the people behind business stories and explaining why those stories matter to the audience reading or watching them.
