The KochiNow Blog

Master Plan

Land Use Plan

Parsvnath releases the awesome designs of 4.8 million sq ft IT SEZ
on a 76 acre campus near Nedumbassery.

Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd, one of India’s biggest
real estate giants has announced a Rs.2000 cr Cyber City at Kalamassery
on 70 acres. The land has been purchased near Co-op Med College.
The tech park with 8 million sq ft built up space will employ 65000
professionals. The project will be up in 3 years.

Rs.20-billion IT park to come up in Kochi
13 Sep, 2007, 1720 hrs IST, IANS

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Mumbai-based Housing Development and Infrastructure Limited (HDIL) will build an IT Park in Kalamassery, Kochi. The 70-acre IT Park, named HDIL Cybercity, will be built at a cost of Rs.20 billion.

HDIL, a part of the Wadhawan group, is investing in HDIL Cybercity through its subsidiary company Blue Star Realtors Pvt Ltd, HDIL chairman Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan told reporters here.

“The park would be spread over 70 acres and would have a total built up area of 7.9 million sq feet, of which 5.4 million sq ft will be used for IT ventures. The remaining will be for hotels, service apartments, shopping malls, clubhouses, schools and residential structures,” said Wadhawan.

HDIL Cybercity will be a catalyst in Kerala’s economic growth and is expected to generate 65,000 new jobs. The project is expected to require 9 million man-days to build.

HDIL has already appointed well-known architectural firm Aedas as consultants for the project.

Aedas, currently the fourth largest architectural practice in the world, were consultants to many large-scale infrastructure projects. These include the international cruise terminal, Xiamen, China, Crossrail in London, and Pentominium Tower, the world’s tallest residential tower in Dubai.

HDIL is the flagship construction and real estate development company of the Wadhawan Group with market capitalisation of over Rs.100 billion.

The company focuses on construction and development of IT Parks and integrated IT cities. It is developing 115 million sq ft in Mumbai metropolitan region, Hyderabad, Pune and Kochi.

SmartCity launches corporate identity

K. Venkiteswaran

---

The company is developing Smart City Kochi

It promises growth of knowledge-based industries

---

KOCHI: SmartCity, a Dubai-based global company which seeks to develop a worldwide network of self-sustained industry townships for knowledge-based companies, based on the successful models of Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and Dubai Knowledge Village, on Saturday launched its global corporate identity.

The launch ceremony was held at the DIC Community Zone at GITEX Technology Week 2007, the premier information technology industry trade show in the Middle East.

It was attended by Ahmad Bin Byat, Executive Chairman of TECOM Investments, Farhan Faraidooni, Executive Chairman of Sama Dubai, Abdullatif Al Mulla, CEO of TECOM Investments, and Fareed Abdulrahman, Executive Director of SmartCity, according to a press release.

SmartCity’s logo reflects its global network and its vast future growth opportunities. All its international projects will incorporate this logo into their own brand identities.

A joint venture between TECOM Investments and Sama Dubai, SmartCity is at present developing Smart City Malta and Smart City Kochi Full Story - The Hindu

Here are the details of the 100 floor trade center coming
up on a 40 acres site at Kinfra Hi-Tech park at Kalamassery,
developed by Zoom Developers. It is part of a Exhibition-cum-Trade
center project. Architects : CPG Singapore.

*100 floored Trade center
*30 floored 5 star hotel with 400 rooms
*2 car parkings of 10 and 12 floor each(Total 22000 cars)
*Convention and Exhibition centre in another 5 floors
*Artificial lake,food village, Childrens’ park, etc
*Total 4.5 million sq ft

Project given in-principle go ahead by state govt and
is in front of Union Ministry for Environment for
clearance. It will further need airport authority clearance
and a final nod from govt.