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ometimes it’s in your best interest to start over, even if
Syou’re established and can afford to do as you please. A good
example of that is the new Palm Trump International Hotel &
Tower that’s going up in Dubai. I think most of us have heard of
Dubai by now, in the United Arab Emirates. Just off the coast is
a man-made palm-tree-shaped island, the Palm Jumeirah, that is
a remarkable achievement of engineering and imagination. I
partnered with Nakheel, the developer of over $30 billion in
real estate in Dubai, to build a tower on this island.
Nakheel, in Arabic, means palm trees, so it follows that this
would be their imprint in the Arabian Gulf. In 2005, we went
into partnership and agreed that our hotel, which will be the
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