Dubai · Free zone
d3
Dubai Design District
The honest read
What it is actually good at.
A design and fashion cluster with showroom space and a serious events calendar. For a brand that needs to be seen by the regional buying community, the address does work the licence alone would not.
Who is actually based here
Fashion labels, interior design studios, architecture practices, furniture showrooms and creative agencies.
What it costs
Upper-band, with showroom and studio formats that cost more per square foot than plain office space.
How banks receive it
Fine. No unusual friction for a recognised Dubai free zone.
Commonly licensed here
- Emirate
- Dubai
- Type
- Free zone
- Location
- TECOM / Dubai Development Authority
- Established
- 2013
- Licence issuance
- 3–5 weeks
- Residence visas
- By leased area
- Ownership
- 100% foreign
- Premises
- Studios, showrooms, retail, offices
Timelines, quotas and package contents are indicative and change without notice. We confirm every one against the current schedule before you commit to anything.
Premises
Where the office actually goes.
d3 is a place as much as a registry. The licence and the postcode come together: take space here and you are inside the jurisdiction, with everything that implies for rent, for who your neighbours are, and for how a client reads your address.
A purpose-built design and fashion quarter next to Business Bay, with showrooms, studios, galleries and a serious events calendar. What d3 itself offers by way of premises: Studios, showrooms, retail, offices.
- District
- Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai
- Typical rent
- Upper band free zone pricing, with showroom and studio formats
- Licence type there
- Free zone
Questions
Dubai Design District — a purpose-built design and fashion free zone with showrooms and studios, next to Business Bay.
Design, fashion, architecture and related creative activities. It is a cluster licence with a defined list, not a general one.
If you need showroom space and want the regional buying community to find you during the design weeks, yes. For back-office design work, no.