Hiranandani Palace Gardens, Chennai

Project Highlights Location: Between national highways 4 and 45. Southwest of central Chennai in the Sriperumbudur business corridor.     Total buildable area*: Residential – 21.5 million square feet Commercial – 5.1 million square feet Retail – 2.3 million square feet Social – 1.2 million square feet (including schools, hospital, Recreation centres, etc.)     Location highlights: Thirty minutes driving distance from Chennai International Airport, nine kilometres from railway station. Major employers within 20 kilometres including BMW, Nokia, Komatsu, St. Gobain, Ford, Hyundai * According to the current project Master Plan

Planning and Development

Infrastructure and civil engineering
Larsen & Toubro Limited, India

Architecture
Hafeez Contractor, India

IT and telecommunications planning
Tata Consultancy Services, India

Planning
HOK Planning Group, United States

Pre-construction planning and project management:
Turner Construction Inc., United States

Chennai City Profile

Chennai is the capital of the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is located on the Bay of Bengal. With an estimated population of 7.5 million (2007), it is the fourth largest metropolitan city in India and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.

Chennai's economy has a broad industrial base in the automobile, technology, hardware manufacturing, and health care industries.

In addition to being the centre of India’s automotive industry, Chennai is also the country's second-largest exporter of information technology and provider of information technology- enabled services.

The city is served by an international airport and two major ports. It is connected to the rest of the country by five national highways and two railway terminals. Thirty-five countries have consulates in Chennai.