Under constructionDeyaar Development PJSC
Community · Downtown & Urban
Partially establishedDubai Production City
A mall since 2015, thousands of occupied apartments, and a set of lakes that spent years as empty pits.
- StageStage
- Partially established
- TypesProperty types
- Apartments
- HandoverHandover window
- Q3 2027
What it is
A media free zone that quietly became a residential one.
Dubai Production City, formerly the International Media Production Zone, is a TECOM Group free zone founded in July 2003 across about 43 million square feet in the Me'aisem area, on Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road near Dubai Sports City and the Jumeirah Village communities.
A community mall, a Carrefour and a clinic since 2015. The park at the middle of the plan is still arriving.
What exists today
What is physically there in Dubai Production City.
City Centre Me'aisem, a Majid Al Futtaim community mall, opened on 1 September 2015 and holds around sixty outlets including a Carrefour hypermarket, a walk-in clinic and a Magic Planet entertainment centre.
A large number of mid-rise apartment buildings are complete and occupied, and the free zone itself has operated since July 2003 under TECOM Group across roughly 43 million square feet.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) and Al Khail Road (E44) serve the district, close to their intersection.
The lakes in the centre of the masterplan have only recently begun to fill and are ringed by running tracks; landscaping around them is incomplete and much of the area remains bare.
No metro station serves the district, and there is no school inside it — the nearest are in the neighbouring Jumeirah Village communities and Dubai Sports City.
Last verified
- Value buyers and investors who want a mall, a supermarket and a clinic inside the community at an apartment price well below the coast.
- Less suited to
- anyone who needs a metro, waterfront, or a finished public realm.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) and Al Khail Road (E44) both serve the district, which sits close to their intersection.
No metro station serves Dubai Production City; the area is car-dependent.
Existing — built and open
- City Centre Me'aisem mall, open since September 2015Retail
- Carrefour hypermarket and walk-in clinic at City Centre Me'aisemHealthcare
- Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road and Al Khail Road accessRoad
- Lakes and perimeter running tracks, landscaping incompletePark
Who it suits, and who it doesn't
- Value buyers and investors who want a mall, a supermarket and a clinic inside the community at an apartment price well below the coast.
- Less suited to
- anyone who needs a metro, waterfront, or a finished public realm.
Connectivity & infrastructure
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road (E311) and Al Khail Road (E44) both serve the district, which sits close to their intersection.
No metro station serves Dubai Production City; the area is car-dependent.
Existing — built and open
- City Centre Me'aisem mall, open since September 2015Retail
- Carrefour hypermarket and walk-in clinic at City Centre Me'aisemHealthcare
- Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road and Al Khail Road accessRoad
- Lakes and perimeter running tracks, landscaping incompletePark
Projects in this community
When the supply lands.
2 projects we cover in Dubai Production City, grouped by the year they are due to hand over — so you can see where completions cluster before you pick one.
2027
Handover 2027 · 1 project- Under constructionDeyaar Development PJSC
Handover to be confirmed
1 project
New launchMeraki Developers
Next step
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OAC18 Perspective
The amenity a young district usually lacks is already here. The landscape it was sold on is not.
- Where it is strong
- City Centre Me'aisem with a Carrefour hypermarket, a walk-in clinic and around sixty outlets, open since 2015; two motorways at the door; an established, occupied apartment stock at a low price point.
- Where it falls short
- No metro, a lake park that has been slow and patchy to deliver, a free-zone layout rather than a designed neighbourhood, and a great deal of near-identical apartment supply.
- Supply and handover
The residential plots here are being built out by many developers to a similar specification and a similar price, which keeps competition on price rather than on quality. Expect a resale to be compared directly against three newer buildings within a few minutes' walk, and check the service charge against comparable towers before you commit.
We would recommend it to a value buyer or a yield investor who wants working amenity now and can live with a car-dependent address. We would not recommend it to anyone counting on the lake park to transform the district on a schedule, because nothing about its delivery so far supports that.
Compare with nearby communities
Where else the same money goes.
Partially establishedJumeirah Village Circle
The same apartment price band with a larger mall, a school inside the community and far more supply.
EstablishedJumeirah Village Triangle
Quieter and more villa-led next door, with Al Khail Avenue for retail.
Ask what we would avoid in Dubai Production City.
Twenty minutes on Dubai Production City specifically — which phases, which developers, and where the handover and resale risk actually sits.