Branded ResidencesRegister

Downtown Dubai (Burj Khalifa)

Waldorf Astoria Residences Dubai Downtown

Planned

The residences

The name licensed to this project and carried on the building. A brand is not a company: it holds no title, builds nothing and runs nothing.
Waldorf Astoria
The business the brand comes from — hotel, fashion, design, automotive, restaurant, club, or a developer’s own name.
Hotel
The kinds of home offered — villas, condos, penthouses, lots — and how they break down. Not how many, and not what interest is sold.
Signature Collection one-to-three-bedroom residences; Sky Collection four-bedroom residences, sky villas and sky mansions; one Sky Palace
Whether a hotel shares the site, the building is mixed-use, or it is residences only.
Hotel on site
When the project was first made public.
Mar 2024
Every handover date the project has been given, oldest first.
2028
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What the brand does · Master plan · Residences · What you buy · Price · Sales opened · Construction started · Handover

Not recorded is a statement about this register: no sourced value is held for these. It is never a claim that anyone withheld them.

Who is behind it

The company that runs properties under this project’s brand and sets the standards carried under it. It need not own the name — who owns it is the brand licensor.
Hilton
The party that promotes the project and carries it through to delivery. May also hold title to part of it — being one does not make it the other.
NABNI DevelopmentsNamed as developer in partnership with Hilton on Hilton's own newsroom release, and again as developer on the 2025 Business Bay sales-launch release.
The practice or individual who designed the building.
Carlos Ott ArchitectsNamed on the Hilton release; the 2025 Business Bay release names the same architect as Carlos Ott.
The practice or individual who designed the interiors.
Hirsch Bedner AssociatesNamed on both the 2024 Downtown release and the 2025 Business Bay release, in the latter abbreviated HBA.
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Building manager · Holds title to · Main contractor · Brand licensee

Not recorded is a statement about this register: no sourced value is held for these. It is never a claim that anyone withheld them.

How this project is structuredNABNI Developments is the developer named on both Waldorf Astoria residential releases, in partnership with Hilton. No landowning entity distinct from the developer is named on either page, and no licence-holding company distinct from Hilton is named.

Sources

stories.hilton.com/releases/waldorf-astoria-residenc…
Hilton's own newsroom release announcing the Downtown project; establishes developer, architect, interior designer, plot size and a 2028 completion.Accessed 28 Jul 2026
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nabni-developments-…
19 May 2025NABNI/Hilton sales-launch release for a Business Bay project making the same first-standalone claim; establishes 146 units, 65 storeys, Q4 2029 and a 19 May 2025 sales opening.Accessed 28 Jul 2026
stories.hilton.com/branded-residential-by-hilton-fac…
Hilton's current branded-residential fact sheet; lists Waldorf Astoria Residences Dubai Business Bay in the pipeline and does not carry a Dubai Downtown entry under that name.Accessed 28 Jul 2026

See it on the map

1 open questionabout this project

Points this record cannot yet settle, with the sources on each side. Both readings are published rather than one being chosen quietly.

Whether Waldorf Astoria Residences Dubai Downtown and Waldorf Astoria Residences Dubai Business Bay are one scheme or two.

  • Waldorf Astoria Residences Dubai DowntownHilton's own 2024 newsroom release announces a Downtown project by NABNI Developments on a 1.5-acre plot, designed by Carlos Ott Architects with Hirsch Bedner Associates interiors, completing in 2028, and calls it the first standalone Waldorf Astoria residential address outside the United States.source ↗
  • Waldorf Astoria Residences Dubai Business BayA 2025 NABNI release opens sales for a Business Bay project by the same developer, with the same architect and interior designer, 146 units across 65 storeys completing Q4 2029, making the same first-standalone claim.source ↗
  • Only Business Bay is in Hilton's current pipelineHilton's own branded-residential fact sheet lists Waldorf Astoria Residences Dubai Business Bay and carries no Dubai Downtown entry under that name.source ↗
Downtown Dubai & DIFC · Name clash · open