Mumbai Update II - project news from Mumbai ‎

[Jai]

Hi,

Am adding to the Bombay Boom Rundown thread the following buildings.

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New Project! - Shreepati Heights, Mumbai: 75 stories

[no rendering released yet]

Building proposed, but no rendering released. Desigined by architect Reza Kabul (who was also the architect for Shreepati Heights, Mumbai's tallest building until a 2004.) More information needed.

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New Project! - Imperial Heights, Andheri West: three towers of 65 stories each


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Added confirmation and location map for Oberoi Skyz, Worli: two towers of 65 stories (possibly 80 stories) each.


Note: The above image is not a rendering of the towers!

Building under construction, but still no rendering released yet. The graphic above is just to show where exactly the towers are coming up. It was formerly reported to be rocket-ship-shaped.

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New Project! - K. Raheja Project, Worli: 45 stories


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New Project! - Reliance Tower, Altamount Road: 42 stories


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Corrected height information for Sarovar Dharshan, Mulund: two towers of 40 stories each


~~~~~

Added new rendering, corrected height information for Raheja Atlantis, Worli: 36 stories


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Added new rendering, corrected name for Oberoi Commerz, Mumbai: 32 stories.


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New Project! - SEZ Project, Mumbai: 32 stories


More information needed.

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New Project! - Runwal Pride, Mulund (West): 30 stories


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New Project! - Haresh Mehta Building, Mumbai: 30 stories


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New Project! - Rustomjee Project, Thane: two towers of 30 stories each


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New Project! - Flora Heights, Lokhadwala: 30 stories


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New Project! - Mahavir Universe, Bahndhup: 5 towers of 25 stories each


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New Project! - Raheja Willows, Kandivali (East): 25 stories


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New Project! - Rustomjee La Sonrisa, Matunga: 25 stories


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New Project! - Laxminarayan Residency, Thane: 25 stories


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New Project! - Ispat Tower, Pedder Road: 25 stories


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New Project! - Flora Heights, Lokhadwala: 25 stories


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New Project! - Satra IT Park, Vashi: 25 stories


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Cheers,
Jai

[Jai]

Look East for a New Mumbai
From Hindustan Times Epaper
December 28, 2006

VESTED INTERESTS have started a systematic campaign against the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT), alleging that landed assets are underutilised and that there has been a substantial decline in the traffic handled by MbPT in recent years.

Therefore, the eastern waterfront should be handed-over to either the municipal corporation or the state government, they argue. I am convinced this campaign is supported by the builders’ lobby.

The Mumbai harbour is a natural one and was selected for developing a major port of the country. The metropolitan city of Mumbai owes its growth to this port. The present assets of the port trust have been almost entirely created by large-scale reclamations from the sea, and entirely at the port trust costs.

The social problem of slums and the dishoused, the state government hopes to solve with the port’s lands, can be settled on the mainland. The proposal of locating it on port trust land behind the docks is a suspect decision attempting to solve the headache by transferring the burden on somebody else’s neck.

This highlights the conflict of planning objectives between the city’s residential interests and national interests. By this logic, the airport and railways will have also to go. This also raises questions about the ideology of those hoping to open up port trust lands for leisure and shopping areas.

It is pertinent to note that through the Mumbai port trust had invested more than Rs 500 crore for the construction of Jawaharlal Nehru port (Nhava Sheva port) and thus directly helped decongest the city.

The land policy approved by the board of trustees of Mumbai port trust in 2001 also had a provision to facilitate disposal of lands/structures on outright sale basis if they were lying unutilised and where encroachments are likely to take place.

But so far the board of trustees have not decided to sell their landed property. In accordance with the provisions of the major port trusts act, port trust is also allowed to lease out the land to the lessees for not more that 30 years.

Being a member of the sub-committee of trustees of the Mumbai port, I can say with some authority that the trust board is in the process of taking a review of the policy approved in 2001, including the provision enabling disposal of landed property. Deliberations are in progress and it may take some more time to finalise the approach of the board in respect of land policy.

S.R Kulkarni is the President of the All India Port & Dock Workers Federation and is a Trustee of the Mumbai Port Trust.

The road ahead
This will include a dedicated rail line connecting Wadala to Kurla, which will then link up with the Central Railway’s 5th and 6th lines being laid under the Mumbai Urban Improvement Programme (MUIP)

The project also includes the rehabilitation of 2,000 slum hutments on port trust and Railway land The port trust would contribute Rs 368 crore of the project cost, while Rs 800 crore would be contributed by a private sector partner, who will build the new docks on a BOT (Build-Own-Transfer) basis

Four open sea berths with a deep draught of 14.6 meters at a cost of Rs 353 crore A dedicated chemical jetty at Pirpau at a cost of Rs 116 crore is also in the pipeline along with a 5th oil berth

[Jai]

Interface Heights, Malad: seven towers of 25 stories each

[Jai]

A status update on the 72-75 storey India International Trade Tower, and a news blurb about more mill lands that will be sold:
Nine NTC mills to go under hammer

2006-12-26 20:09 Source : Moneycontrol.com

Close to 80 acres of mill land valued at more than Rs 6,000 crore at current market rates will be thrown open to private developers in February 2007.The National Textile Corporation or NTC is finalising plans to put another nine mills under the hammer reports CNBC-TV18.

After raising Rs 2000 crore by selling 50 acres of mill land in mid 2005, NTC hopes to make a killing once again.

NTC is gearing up to unleash more prime land in the heart of Mumbai! The corporation has confirmed that it is looking at putting nine textile mills covering an area of 79.14 acres on the block by late January or early February next year. In Mumbai alone, NTC owns 25 mills, of which five were sold for development to private parties in 2005.

The corporation has already got approvals from its board as well as the central government to auction 9 more defunct mills, which include a big chunk of Kohinoor Mills, Madhusudan Mills and India United Mills among others. NTC says it will set the reserve price for each mill on the basis of highest and best usage. Sources in the NTC say they are now awaiting the BMC's final nod to go ahead with the sale and is positive that it will come through early next year.

The NTC has also set aside three mills totaling 24 acres, which include India United 4 , Sitaram Mills and Jam mills to be handed over free of cost, to the BMC and MAHADA for public usage and low-cost housing, when the nine other mills are put up for sale

The textile corporation has also earmarked the 12-acre India United Mills no. 6 to be developed into an international trade center. Meanwhile, property experts say the sale of the nine mills is a welcome move and will bring in much needed fresh supply into central Mumbai. Industry watchers also say with private equity chasing realty deals primarily in the metros and many developers in the race to make their presence in India’s financial capital, central Mumbai is expected to witness yet another round of big ticket deals.

Hmm... Seems it is still in the planning stages, with no movement yet on the ground. Perhaps during/after this mill land sale, we'll hear some more information about it.

[kronik]

Seriously, just 9 letters before they allow all this land to be developed:

FSI FSI FSI

Why don't Maharashtra's netas realize that reforming the outdated laws will probably help Mumbai much more than anything else.

Such predictable character they have - always running away from the tough answers.

[dreadathecontrols]

Originally Posted by kronik

Seriously, just 9 letters before they allow all this land to be developed:

FSI FSI FSI

Why don't Maharashtra's netas realize that reforming the outdated laws will probably help Mumbai much more than anything else.

Such predictable character they have - always running away from the tough answers.

Or even easy answers.
Great updates MR J

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by Jai

Interface Heights, Malad: seven towers of 25 stories each

[Jai]

^ Sun, there is also this rendering of the project. It seems a bit different

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by Jai

^ Sun, there is also this rendering of the project. It seems a bit different

It's similar I guess.

[Cov Boy]

The ULCA will be abolished soon by the Cabinet.

The PM is pushing for this as this has caused many problems fro builders, architects and the general public alike.

[pding]

abolishing ULCA would be a major loss for whichever political party does it. are they ready to take the step?

[Jai]

Guys... I was talking to someone who was in India on business last year. He said that the big news at the time was that Ambani and Reliance Industries was planning to build a WTB in Navi Mumbai. Since then, Reliance's Mahamumbai SEZ has been approved.

A question to Mumbaites... have you heard of this rumor?

[Bombay Boy]

whats a wtb?

[Jai]

worlds tallest building. Sorry, something I picked up from the main forums.

[Bombay Boy]

not likely at all. no reason really

[MYSTIC]

Originally Posted by Bombay Boy

not likely at all. no reason really

With Reliance you never know...

[Jai]

So, what can we expect in 2007?

Push-button comforts arrive, live hi-tech in '07

Kiran Wadhwa
Sunday, December 24, 2006 02:03 IST

MUMBAI: Karishma Chandiramani presses her finger against a sensor. The biometric thumbprint opens the elevator, takes her to an ultra-luxurious home on the 50th floor. Inside, at the press of a button on a futuristic touch-screen panel, she sets off the mood lighting for the evening. She can even control the settings through her mobile phone or the internet.

But Chandiramani still dreams of such a home. She may take a little longer than usual to find it. “I would love to sit in bed and draw my curtains or control the lasagna in my microwave via my cellphone. It would be like having breakfast in bed,” says Chandiramani.

Lodha Bellissimo, a 50-storeyed superluxury apartment tower at Lower Parel, in which one lives with thumbprint locks and automated mood lights, could be her dream home. It is one in a new crop of by-invitation-only signature buildings coming up in Mumbai.

Planet Godrej at Simplex Mills in Mahalakshmi is another plush, five-tower complex. The 50-storey towers with high-speed elevators and brainy new homes occupy five per cent of the space; the rest is devoted to landscaping and other facilities.

Says Rakesh Shah, a chemicals exporter, who has just bought a home at Planet Godrej and cannot wait to move in: “People are looking for lifestyle buildings with open spaces and in-house facilities. Now, I don’t need a club membership.”

The suburbs are not far behind in the hi-tech game. Satguru Builders is coming up with by-invitation-only lifestyle apartments in Khar. “People do not mind investing in a quality product. Our clients range from industrialists to diamond merchants to CEOs,” says Sharan Babani, director, Satguru Builders.

Says Poonam Mahtani, national director of Colliers International, a property consultancy, “Today, the executive travels all over the world and wants to live by international standards.” Agrees Abhinandan Lodha, director, Lodha Group: “It is not about Shanghai or New York. Mumbai is setting its own benchmark as a global city.”

If industry sources are to be believed, the city will soon have hi-tech revolving apartments. What say you to the sun rising and setting outside the same window!

[Jai]

Here's an older, but interesting diagram from DNA India


And

[dreadathecontrols]

Originally Posted by Bombay Boy

whats a wtb?

An abreviation that india didnt invent? I dont beleive it.
Anyway the demand is not there yet.Its just hype for the SEZ.
What do i expect for bombay this year?
I hope the UCLA is abolished, rent control is phased out & FSI is increased.At least one of those is likely.

[Monkey]

The Imperial Towers is a very exciting project. It's tall enough to transform the skyline. However it's dominance won't last long looking at the number and scale of projects in the pipeline.