Lower Parel - Century Textiles Office Tower U/C

Guys, I had never heard of this nor thought of an area or project as massive as this.

This looks to be a little across Oasis and the area that this property covers is massive.

The pic below shows 2 large cranes on the site. I managed to go in and find that this is the Century Textile Mills or Century Textiles. I enquired thinking it to be Indiabulls Blue but the security guard said it is not and it is their own office construction.

Concept Design:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8272/centurymills.jpg

Location: (view on google maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=19.007898,72.826974&spn=0.011138,0.021973&sll=19.017615,72.856164&sspn=0.337738,0.512238&gl=us&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=16))
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http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6777/century2l.jpg

Update: U/C 9th, July 2011

We need to get more details as it looks huge, ground work is done, the building at one end is above ground level as you see in the other pic below.

Century Textiles - U/C Pic 1

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Closer View of the massive u/c:
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Here you see the building u/c is one or two levels above ground,

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6123/img0519dx.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6123/img0519dx.jpg)


This give a lil idea, as i managed to take this when the gates just opened

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An Ecomonic Times article on this project and other projects next to Century Mills from August, 2010 -

Birlas to change Central Mumbai’s landscape (http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_ETNEW&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=ETM/2010/08/23&ID=Ar00500)

BK Birla Group To Develop Three Properties In Mumbai; Hires Shapoorji Pallonji For Developing Worli Land

TWO generations of the Birlas are set to change Mumbai’s urban landscape in a move which could add to the already burgeoning stock of residential and commercial properties in central Mumbai.

The BK Birla Group firm Century Textiles has hired the Shapoorji Pallonji group to develop a 20-acre property at the site of a textile mill in Worli in Central Mumbai.

The firm controlled by billionaire Pallonji Mistry has also started soil testing to build residential towers in a 10-acre property at Prabhadevi which overlooks the Mahindra group’s sprawling corporate headquarters.

The textiles-to-cement group is also half way through yet another realty project — a 25-storey commercial tower behind Century Bhawan in Worli, to be called Century International.

In tandem with his grandfather, Kumar Mangalam Birla, the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, has decided to construct a multi-storey building at a location adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Worli, built on land bought from multinational pharma company Rhone-Poulenc in 2003.

BK Birla and Kumar Mangalam Birla are co-owners of shares in Pilani Investments, which holds promoters’ investments in Century Textiles. Kumar Mangalam Birla will eventually inherit ownership of most BK Birla group companies, including Century Textiles.

An IT park, a five-star hotel and commercial buildings will come up at the 20-acre mill land. The Aditya Birla group’s new office building may house executives of companies such as Grasim and Hindalco. Century Textiles’ company secretary DK Agarwal and senior president RK Dalmia did not respond to email queries on the subject. An Aditya Birla Group spokeswoman declined to comment.

“This will continue to make a huge difference to the urban landscape of Mumbai. In the course of time, the centre of gravity will shift from Nariman Point to Central Mumbai where 15,000 apartments are being added,” said Pranay Vakil, head of property consultancy firm Knight Frank.

The Wadia Group, which is locked in a dispute with the Birlas for a part of Century Textiles’ property at Worli, has recently constructed a corporate office for Axis Bank at its mill land in Worli. Leading hotel brand Shangri-La plans to build its new five-star hotel in an adjacent location.

Century Textiles has created a property management team to complete the construction in 12-15 months. Anil Mishra, who had cut his teeth in the Dubai property market, has been brought in to spearhead the project, while senior executive Sashank Bodke has been shifted to the property team, which reports to group veteran DK Agarwal. A top executive of the group is monitoring the construction of Century International.

“L&T has completed the piling work at the mill premise and Shapoorji group
has just started the construction,” said a senior BK Birla Group executive.

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=ETM/2010/08/23/5/Img/Pc0050800.jpg

3 buildings are coming up at century mills

wing A: 2 basements+GF+58floors
wing B: 2 basements+GF+12floors
wing C: 3 basements+GF+41floors

http://envis.maharashtra.gov.in/envis_data/files/century%20794.pdf

Today, 05-09-2011

Century Mills Tower rising up and off the ground now

Copyright @ Me

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Any renders for the above project ?

According to this PDF (http://freyssinet-india.com/pdf/ground_anchors.pdf) century mills tower is a 50 storey commercial building (~200m)

Century mills site
Almost one year old picture

SOURCE (http://freyssinet-india.com/projects-post-tensioning-ground-anchors-century-mill)
http://freyssinet-india.com/images/prestressing_completed/century_mall_enlarge.jpg

Can been seen on the right side of this pic taken yesterday by Savz -

Sept 9
Copyright Savz @ SSC
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Century Mills

http://s3.postimage.org/gvy82wno/2011_10_07_12_16_43.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/) jpg upload (http://www.postimage.org/)

:applause:

*New thread created for this project*

thanks for the new thread. This building is prgressing nicely. Awesome update.

Awesome CG!!! Words cannot express more thn this..thnks fr all d effort.

IU, thanks for Oasis. im left speechless. pl keep posting those updates frequently by tht korean guy. tht makes me more greedy n ask for more.

26-10-2011:

Century Mills Tower. This was taken from the Omkar site.

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Awesome updates Savz :cheers2:

IU, put this render in the first post........ the tower now getting shape very similar to this render :(

http://www.aluplexindia.com/projects/centurymillmumbai.php

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4514/centurymillmumbais.jpg

this looks bad. in tht case it wouldnt even b 10 storeys....

That is not a render of the whole tower. It is just a close up of the facade, hence you can only see 5 floors :lol:

phew!! thnks 101 n ds.

But yeah, it looks like that first design is not the chosen one. Guess we will have to wait for the official render to be released.

But are we sure the tower underconsturction is the 50 storey one? I remember reading there was going to be mutlple towers on the 20 acre site?

But yeah, it looks like that first design is not the chosen one. Guess we will have to wait for the official render to be released.

But are we sure the tower underconsturction is the 50 storey one?

I remember reading there was going to be mutlple towers on the 20 acre site?

Yes and yes.

http://freyssinet-india.com/projects-post-tensioning-ground-anchors-century-mill

http://freyssinet-india.com/pdf/ground_anchors.pdf (pic is of India tower)

this looks bad. in tht case it wouldnt even b 10 storeys....

You almost made me laugh there....Savz.

You almost made me laugh there....Savz.

:-)

30-10-2011: Accomodation Times

Central Mumbai’s changing landscapes

The Birlas are developing several new sites in the Central Mumbai and are in a process to change Central Mumbai’s landscape.

The BK Birla Group firm, Century Textiles has hired Shapoorji Pallonji constructions to develop a 20-acre property at the site of a textile mill in Worli in Central Mumbai. An IT park, a five-star hotel and a few commercial buildings with group’s offices as well as other offices will come up at the 20-acre mill land.
Shapoorji Pallonji has begun with soil testing work in order to build residential towers in another 10-acre property of Birlas at Prabhadevi near Mahindra towers. Yet another realty project , a 25-storey commercial tower behind Century Bhawan in Worli, named Century International is also being developed by the birlas. The group is planning to develop another multi-storey building at a location adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Worli, on a land bought from a multinational pharma company in 2003.

A property management team has been created to complete the construction works in 12-15 months.L&T has completed the piling work at the mill premises and Shapoorji group has just started the construction.

With these upcoming projects a stock of about 15,000 apartments along with many commercial properties shall be generated. This will make a huge difference to the urban landscape of Central Mumbai.

within a course of time, the centre of gravity is expected to shift from Nariman Point to Central Mumbai.

This pic spans the entire Century Textiles site at Worli. Its an old site pic, and site prep had just begun.
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/2776/centurymillssite.png

Old but nice pic savz :cheers:

KB:

CTIL was originally owned by the Wadia's Group & later was acquired by BK Birla Group company. Since the company has made a rapid progress in widely diversified field viz. VFS (1956), Cement (1974), Paper (1985), it has now entered into a new zone of Real Estate where it has around 40 acres of land located at Worli, Mumbai.

CTIL has land bank of around 40 acres in Worli, Mumbai located at the prime location of South Central Mumbai. Previously, Worli which was a Textile hub which has now converted itself into a Commercial area as a lot of old mills have gone for re-development, which has pushed up the prices in the same location. Of the total land bank, CTIL is likely to use 9 acres for Commercial purpose, 6 acres for Hospitality, around 15 acres for IT Parks & rest 10 acres for Rehabilitation of housing for its Mill workers.

Real Estate:
Of late, the company has entered into the Real Estate segment, where it is all set to develop its land with an infusion of INR 26bn on mill land located in Worli, Mumbai to build I.T Parks, Hotels & other Commercial Real Estate.

About the Lank Bank:
CTIL has land lank of around 40acres located in the prime location of Worli, in South Central Mumbai. Worli, is considered to be a prime location for Commercial & Residential projects in the city of Mumbai. The outlook of the Real Estate scenario in the Mumbai city is quite positive as it fetches premium prices, due to higher residential rates on account of demand supply mismatches, scarcity of land & proximity of Central Business
District of Mumbai.

Century’s Land Bank for Development:
Purpose Acres Dev. Area (Mn sq.ft)
Commercial 9 1.30
Mill Land-Hospitality 6 0.70
I.T Park 15 2.20
Rehab of Mill Workers 10 0.75
Total Land Bank 40 4.95

Source (http://www.indiratrade.com/reports/institutional/ctil.pdf)

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Wonder who will buy so much office space...there is ample ready supply remaining unsold in parel...

13th Nov, 2011
Copyright@Savz

Project Updates:

Tower 1:

Image#1: Taken from the terrace of Oasis Rehab Towers
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Image#2
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Image#3
15-11-2011 From Orchid Crown Rehab Building
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Another Construction:

Image#1:
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Image#2:
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Thanks for ur great effort savz :applause:

The construction never stops in Mumbai! So many cranes.
Thank you so much Savz.

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This pic spans the entire Century Textiles site at Worli. Its an old site pic, and site prep had just begun.
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/2776/centurymillssite.png

Who says Bombay is a congested city? There is so much potential for growth here. I hope for once the city planners and developers come together without any selfish motives to develop it as a planned city.

Yeah, it doesn't seem congested at all, in this picture. But the only way to get it to become a planned city is to overthrow our so called city planners and bring new ones who actually have motives to clean up.

I am starting to think the only way the clean up our country is to overthrow the politicians who loot from Indians living there. Can easily see this when they didn't vote for the Lokpal Bill. Fucking Bastards.

when a city is 55% slums - its pretty much congested.
but they're doing the right thing with SRA and mill sell-off. Just comparing Mumbai earth b/w 2000 and 2010 - you can see hundreds of acres of mills and slums that are gone .

If only they SRA Golibar, Dharavi, CSIA slums and the slums in ghatkopar - Mumbai will truly become world-class! I would give it a decade!

Congestion is more in the suburbs, not in the city.

While the city is getting more lung space from the vacated mill land, I dont see any planning. They give it to private builders without any plan. Ideally, some of the mill lands have to be used for public places, roads and other physical infrastructure and low cost residential buildings. Island city has tremendous potential for tourism, if proper zoning is made.

Fortunately , the private builders will repsond to market conditions. There cannot be huge supply of high end residences and commercial buildings as the market has already weakened. The vacany in Lower Parel says a lot while other commercial zones have decent occupancy.

Congestion is more in the suburbs, not in the city.

While the city is getting more lung space from the vacated mill land, I dont see any planning. They give it to private builders without any plan. Ideally, some of the mill lands have to be used for public places, roads and other physical infrastructure and low cost residential buildings. Island city has tremendous potential for tourism, if proper zoning is made.

Fortunately , the private builders will repsond to market conditions. There cannot be huge supply of high end residences and commercial buildings as the market has already weakened. The vacany in Lower Parel says a lot while other commercial zones have decent occupancy.

There is a policy where they have to give a part of mill land to BMC for open space and part to MHADA.While BMC did get its share of open space in some cases which were converted into gardens.MHADA didnt get any of them. State govt did rap the buidlers with fining them.but they just got away by payin it.

Yeah, heard of this policy.

But, out of curiosity, where are these gardens/public places in Lower Parel?

Yeah, heard of this policy.

But, out of curiosity, where are these gardens/public places in Lower Parel?

Thats a good question.These gardens are tucked away between residential complexes.One has to literally search for it.I made an attempt and did find a few. They are gated ones so people get confused whether they are for public or belong to the society. They are open in the mornings and evenings.

30-10-2011: Accomodation Times

Central Mumbai’s changing landscapes

..... The group is planning to develop another multi-storey building at a location adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Worli, on a land bought from a multinational pharma company in 2003..

I presume this refers to the old Glaxo land?

Clearest pics so far of the Century Mill Tower

10-1-2012
Copyright:Savz

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Close View
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Yep - clearest shots of the site Savz. That looks like a temple amidst the rest of the demolished tenements - is it from the omkar site?

Yep - clearest shots of the site Savz. That looks like a temple amidst the rest of the demolished tenements - is it from the omkar site?

Yes six sigma.

Feb 27 2012.
Screenshot from this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9q4w2y_Rs4&feature=player_embedded)

No progress at all compared to savz updates :(
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9th Mar 2012
Copyright:Savz

Work going on the u/c tower next to the first tower.

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