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by Kephael 153 days ago
I don't understand the cost either, apparently it only costs around a billion dollars to build a skyscraper? The Burj Khalifa only cost one and a half billion dollars when completed in 2010. I don't know that there's criminal activity here, but the cost of this is rather surprising to me. I knew the Federal Reserve was being renovated, but I thought it was something closer to a hundred million dollars.
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> The Burj Khalifa only cost one and a half billion dollars when completed in 2010.

You have to consider labour costs are significantly cheaper in Dubai.