Looks like Mussafah wont be getting those "huge shopping malls etc.... Hotels, the works.." anytime soon.
from today's Business24-7
Authorities in Abu Dhabi have allowed hundreds of companies in the vast Musaffah industrial city to build houses for their workers.
The Higher Corporation for Specialised Economic Zones (HCSEZ), which runs Musaffah and other industrial zones, will oversee the construction of the project.
The decision to build houses in those areas followed repeated complaints by workers about poor living conditions and unannounced visits by inspectors from Abu Dhabi Municipality and Ministry of Labour to company quarters and stores, which housed thousands of workers, mostly Asians.
Musaffah, one of the largest industrial zones in the Gulf, houses thousands of companies involved in various types of activities. At least 5,000 workers are employed by those firms, mostly from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India.