Its website states that it plans on making Lahore "one of the thirty leading educational, cultural, commercial, industrial, and information technology centres of the world by 2020".

[1] The Provincial Assembly of Punjab established the Lahore Development Authority under the LDA Act of 1975.

The fire started on the seventh floor, and media coverage revealed people jumping out of the building to their death.

[2] It has three main wings: The LDA Board of Governors is chaired by the Zila Nazim of the Lahore City District.

Its members include the following: In Lahore Development Authority (U.D Wing), there are 1990 Employees in total out of which 567 have been declared as officers (Scale 16 & above) whereas 1423 fall under the category of officials (scale 1–15).