Understand
We study the market, the location, the customer and the long-term opportunity before shaping a development.
- Customer
- Market
- Investment
Business Bay Developments · Egyptian Real Estate Developer
Global experience.
One development vision.
A new-generation Egyptian real-estate developer bringing together decades of experience across development, engineering, commercial strategy, customer experience and operations.
Who we are
A new company. Built on a proven legacy.
Business Bay Developments is new. The people behind it are not. Four founders, four disciplines, and careers spent delivering the buildings, the engineering and the commercial networks that most developers have to hire in.
That is the whole proposition: the ambition of a new company, underwritten by a record that already exists.
Development & customer intelligence
Development & construction
Engineering & international expertise
Commercial & retail operations
Act I — How we think
Great developments are not defined by buildings. They are defined by the experiences they create.
At Business Bay, every development starts with understanding people — how they live, work, invest, stay and experience a destination.
It starts with people
Before we develop spaces, we understand people.
Demand is not a spreadsheet assumption. Before a line is drawn, we study how people actually behave — what they buy, why they stay, what they will still value in ten years. Everything that follows is built on that reading.
Customer behaviour
Customer experience
Market intelligence
Investment behaviour
Lifestyle & hospitality
Our DNA
We understand. We develop. We deliver. We operate.
Develop
Insight becomes architecture, planning, product and experience — designed for real demand rather than for a brochure.
- Concept
- Product
- Strategy
Deliver
Delivery is a discipline of detail: sequencing, supervision and the unglamorous work of keeping design intent intact.
- Engineering
- Construction
- Quality
Operate
Long-term value depends not only on what is built, but on how the asset is experienced, managed and commercially run.
- Commercial
- Hospitality
- Experience
- Asset value
Act II — Where our experience comes from
Our DNA wasn't built in one market.
Egypt is where we build and where our judgement is grounded. Our standards come from a wider professional exposure — to international specification, hospitality operating culture, and markets where quality is assumed rather than promised.
EgyptDevelopment base
UAEEngineering
Saudi ArabiaCommercial
KuwaitConstruction
LebanonCommercial
ItalyCommercial
The markets above represent the leadership team's professional experience — not Business Bay offices or completed Business Bay projects.
Leadership
Four journeys. One Business Bay.
Decades of experience. Different disciplines. One shared development vision.
Amir Sami
Co-Founder & CEO
Development and customer intelligence. Commercial leadership across New Cairo residential development, with a career built on reading demand before designing for it.
18+Years in real-estate leadership
Eng. Talaat Gawargious
Co-Founder & Board Member
Development and construction. Founder of a Cairo construction and real-estate investment practice, with delivery across Nasr City and New Cairo.
150+Residential buildings and towers
Eng. Emad El Sherbiny
Engineering Partner
Engineering and international expertise. Chairman of an engineering consultancy practising across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, with high-rise and hospitality specialism.
1996Practice established
Eng. Wael Shawkat
Commercial Partner
Commercial and retail operations. Retail mix, leasing and destination management across four markets, with a brand network built over decades.
550+Brands in the commercial network
In numbers
18+
Years of real-estate leadership
25+
Years of development and construction experience
150+
Residential buildings and towers
550+
Brands in the commercial network
These figures represent the professional experience of Business Bay Developments' founders and leadership team across their careers, and should not be read as completed Business Bay Developments projects.
From experience to development
Beyond buildings. We shape destinations.
We build destinations, not square metres. Business Bay develops concept-driven places designed around experience, operation and long-term asset value.
01
Luxury residential
Homes planned for how people actually live, specified to age well and hold their standing.
02
Hospitality
Hotels and hotel apartments conceived to international operating standards from the first study.
03
Premium commercial
Administrative and retail space shaped by commercial strategy, tenant mix and real footfall logic.
04
Mixed-use destinations
Integrated schemes where residential, commercial and hospitality reinforce one another.
Land bank & strategic focus
Positioned in Egypt's two growth corridors.
Corridor 01
New Cairo
An established east-Cairo market with mature demand, where our leadership has developed and delivered for years.
Corridor 02
New Administrative Capital
A capital being developed as a major centre for government, finance, business, diplomacy, education, healthcare and lifestyle — creating a new urban ecosystem with relevance for Egypt, Africa and international markets.
Strategic focus
Hospitality-led development, built to an international hotel concept: hotels and hotel apartments, international operator standards, and mixed-use destinations where the operating model is designed alongside the architecture.
The New Administrative Capital remains an evolving destination. Infrastructure, occupancy, commercial activity and market performance will develop over time, and individual investment outcomes depend on the specific asset, final terms, market conditions and applicable laws.
Act IV — What's next
Egypt is our foundation. The region is our next horizon.
Development base
- Egypt
Experience & international connection
- UAE
Next horizons
- Saudi Arabia
- Libya
- West Africa
Next horizons describe the direction of our ambition. They are not current offices, holdings or committed developments.
Our approach
Real estate with a hospitality mindset.
A hospitality operator is judged on the hundredth guest, not the first. That is a useful standard for real estate. It puts attention on arrival, circulation, materials that age well, service that can actually be staffed, and details that still work in year ten.
Designed around real human needs
Planned for quality and long-term relevance
Inspired by professional hospitality standards
Created with ownership and experience in mind
- We understand people
- We create experiences
- We build destinations
- We create long-term value
We don't just develop real estate. We create what's next.
Enquiries
Start a conversation with Business Bay.
Tell us how we can help — whether you are exploring investment opportunities, seeking a corporate brief, looking for a partnership, or interested in receiving our next private announcement.
Every enquiry is read by our team, not a queue. If your question is time-sensitive, call 16924 or message us on WhatsApp and we will respond the same working day.
- Call us
- 16924
- +20 11 52859666
- Office
- Building B 13, The District Vill,
Sheraton Al Matar, Cairo, Egypt
Corporate office. This is our company address and not a project sales location.
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