«Sheikh Zayed Road has few high-rise plots left. Aykon City is about claiming one of the last.»
— DAMAC PROPERTIES · 2016 BRIEF
By 2014 DAMAC Properties had acquired a large plot on Sheikh Zayed Road in northern Business Bay. The concept — a masterplan of 5 differently-typed towers (residence, offices, hotel), forming a 'micro-city' within the district. It was one of the last opportunities to develop a frontage plot on Dubai's main highway.