Kolkata Project Update II - project news from Kolkata

[raj145_91]

I think we should have a separate thread for all the luxury/ultra-luxury projects now. What say everyone??
Quite a lot of them now.

[boleboom]

Good idea but just because they are expensive, does not make them Ultra Luxury Projects.

So, which residential projects, past, current or future are considered Luxury or Ultra Luxury compared to other Asian Projects?

[Rajarshi77]

Originally Posted by samrat_m

It is being built by Simplex Projects Ltd, the realty arm of Simplex Infrastructure. Info about this project was taken from NK Realtors website.
http://www.nkrealtors.com/projectDetails.asp?id=122

Simplex Projects is not the realty arm of Simplex Infrastructure. Promoters of both the companies are brothers but run their separate businesses. They share a common name Simplex.

Simplex Projects are into Infra projects and considered as pioneers in Multilevel parking. They run the multi level parking at New Market (called Simpark) and opposite to Neotia Hospital on Park Street.

[samrat_m]

Thanx for the info.

[raj145_91]

Originally Posted by boleboom

Good idea but just because they are expensive, does not make them Ultra Luxury Projects.

So, which residential projects, past, current or future are considered Luxury or Ultra Luxury compared to other Asian Projects?

I was'nt talking about other Asian projects...just the ones in Kolkata...the last few months have seen a good increase in the number of proposed/u/c projects in the city.

[boleboom]

The criteria of a Luxury flat for Kolkata should at least have the following:

Split ACs or VRF Central AC, No window ACs
Large Lifts
AC Lift Lobbies
Garbage Chutes
Views
Club
Pool, Gym, Steam
Large Kitchens with built in Appliances
Large Bathrooms with Tubs, Showers
Utility Rooms with full washer & dryer & no hanging clothes on a balcony

I need to stop before I go off track :-)

[avishar]

That wont be a very convenient way to categorise luxury projects,because half of the projects these days offer most of these amenities.

We can categorise luxury projects by the average price per square ft of the project,or the average selling price of the apartments eg 1 crore above.But even that is very ambiguous.Samrat da had posted a list of luxury projects and their construction status sometime back,we can follow that.

[Sumanb]

Yes, price - location combi should be an indicatore of luxary project. It will be subjective but that's the only way.

[samrat_m]

The list of some (not all) Luxury Apartment projects in Kolkata, in the last 2 decades.

Past years


Current


Apart from South City, which is huge & an assortment of standard, premium & luxury apartments, all others are exclusively luxury ones with the best-in-class of amenities & fixtures

[boleboom]

Great job! That is a very comprehensive list. Rosedale & Epicentre should be added to this list.

If I had spare change laying around, I would buy a flat in THE V.

[avishar]

Thank you so much.That is such a wonderfully made list.Very convenient to keep track of the projects.

If i make a rough guess,thats like 1000-1,500 apartments U/C with a price range of 1.5 crore and above.I can imagine potential luxury spending of this high-net worth clientele.

You can add the "The Living Steel-Restello" project.

[abhijitx]

[D Jyoti]

Originally Posted by abhijitx

superb!! this will boost Kolkata's as well as Eastern India's economy..........

[samrat_m]

Originally Posted by boleboom

Great job! That is a very comprehensive list. Rosedale & Epicentre should be added to this list.

Originally Posted by avishar

Thank you so much.That is such a wonderfully made list.Very convenient to keep track of the projects.

If i make a rough guess,thats like 1000-1,500 apartments U/C with a price range of 1.5 crore and above.I can imagine potential luxury spending of this high-net worth clientele.

You can add the "The Living Steel-Restello" project.

Yes, those 3 projects can be added to the list.
BTW, it was Tivoli Court @ 1A, Ballygunge Circular Road, which was the 1st ever Apartment project to usher in the 1 cr price tag in Kolkata, way back in 1983. That complex has some of the finest apartments of the city.

[Rajarshi77]

Samrat, Is the price given for flats which were constructed in 1990s a recent one or the one at which they were sold in 1990s?

[samrat_m]

Originally Posted by Rajarshi77

Samrat, Is the price given for flats which were constructed in 1990s a recent one or the one at which they were sold in 1990s?

The prices are the ones @ which they were sold in that time.

[Rajarshi77]

Originally Posted by samrat_m

The prices are the ones @ which they were sold in that time.

Unbelievable

[studdmanster]

Originally Posted by samrat_m

The prices are the ones @ which they were sold in that time.

1cr tag in 1983

[mountaincloud]

Thank God for small mercies. I had planned to sit on the road if the plan for second Writers' went ahead. Which mad insensitive uncouth callous uncultured megalomaniac can think of such an outrageous obscene most joghonno plan?


http://thestatesman.net/index.php?op...21070&catid=35

ASI says no to CM’s second Writers’ plan
23 August 2012
statesman news service

KOLKATA, 23 AUG: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) will not allow construction of a five-storey building to house the chief minister's office as it flouts provisions of the Ancient Monument Act.

The Act stipulates that no construction is allowed within 100 metres from a national monument. The old Currency Building is a national monument maintained by the ASI. The proposed new building for the chief minister is located within 100 metres from the old currency building. Senior ASI officials said, however, to construct anything beyond 100 metres, permission of the National Monument Authority is required.

"The heritage structures are of extreme importance and no one in the country has any authority to flout the laws formulated to protect heritage structure and its ambience’’, said senior ASI officials in Delhi.

The US-based National Monument Fund and the Outline Development Plan of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) have banned any construction opposite Writers' Buildings as the area has been declared a heritage zone.

Meanwhile, the area where the proposed building will come up opposite the GPO has been covered with tin sheds. Soil test will begin shortly. Curiously, no permission has been sought from the Heritage Committee of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Heritage Committee members said: “The matter was never discussed with them and so the question of giving permission does not arise." The State Heritage Commission has not been informed either and its members said under no circumstances are they going to allow it. Two city-based historians, preferring anonymity, said the chief minister should have asked her colleagues who have offices outside Writers' Buildings to work from those offices and not occupy rooms at Writers'. “She can take one whole floor to set up her new office instead of constructing a new one that flouts the heritage preservation Act," they said adding "it is unfortunate that senior state government officials do not point out these issues to the chief minister in order to ensure that they continue to get personal benefits."

http://thestatesman.net/index.php?op...20996&catid=38

THE SECOND WRITERS’
There’s space enough if you look

LORD Dalhousie would have been aghast. Much as the BBD Bag area has been certified as a “heritage zone”, there is precious little of heritage to boast of in what was once Dalhousie Square. The protective tag, that accords the area a rarefied position in a decrepit city, became irrelevant with the gradual decline and eventual closure of the British managing agencies, dealing in the main with jute, tea and coal since the days of John Company. Thus was the mercantile heritage relegated to the footnotes. That decline marks a particularly dark phase in the post-colonial economic history of Bengal; Singur and Nandigram have only reinforced the process. To the economic factor can be added the construction of that urban monstrosity called the Telephone Bhavan and the shoddy maintenance of Laldighi. Beautification of the area has been a statement of intent for the past six years. The Chief Minister’s plan to set up a five-storied block opposite the GPO can be opposed on other counts, but not on the somewhat laboured plea of heritage. The State Heritage Commission must reflect on the denuded heritage of the area and the visual incongruities that have come up over time before it mounts its high horse.
Whether or not the Chief Minister of West Bengal needs a five-storied office need not detain us here; Mamata Banerjee may have her compulsions to construct a parallel Writers’ to house her office. Suffice it to register that CMs from Prafulla Chandra Ghosh and BC Roy to Jyoti Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee have been able to make do with a portion of the first floor. Should the incumbent still require additional space, the government needs to reflect on the under-utilisation of its huge edifices ~ named after respective departments ~ in Salt Lake. Indeed, offices in the satellite town showcase a grudging exercise to set up what was originally planned ~ a parallel secretariat spread over separate buildings. From the Left to Trinamul, even ministers with earmarked buildings in Salt Lake prefer ~ and are allotted ~ a city office as it were at Writers’. Put them in their place, let them get on with their jobs and Miss Banerjee will find the additional space she needs in a less cluttered Writers’ itself. Heritage is a proud boast; but town planners need to be sensible. The approach ought to be contemporary and practical, not embedded in the memories of Old Calcutta. The heyday of the Raj is of academic interest; its relics have progressively been neglected.

[niljee]

When the CBD is gradually moving to New Town, dont understand why she is not thinking of locating her pet project there. That will help decongest the BBD Bag area as well. May be she has started thinking about those famished cows of Rajarhat again, who had conveniently disappeared from her mind during the opening of Rabitirtha, Finance hub etc.