Calcutta Riverside
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Calcutta Riverside is a satellite township development across 262 acres (1.1 km²) being developed by Riverbank Developers Pvt. Ltd. in joint venture with Bata India Limited planned on the banks of the Hooghly River in Kolkatain South 24 Parganas district under Maheshtala
Municipality
.Riverbank Holdings the operating company has finalised a funding of Rs 117.60 crore for the IT SEZ portion of this project on the outskirts of Kolkata. Yatra Capital Ltd will invest the funds in the IT SEZ component of the Calcutta Riverside project in lieu of 50 per cent equity stake in the SEZ. Spread over 25 acres (101,171.5 m²), the IT SEZ will have a built-up area of 21.92 lakh sq.ft. This is the joint venure of Riverbank Holdings Private Ltd. and Bata India Ltd
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. Calcutta Riverside is a mixed use development with high end residential communities around river, golf course and lakes. It has self-sufficient amenities like an IT park within 25 acres (101,171.5 m²) SEZ, a ‘Crowne Plaza’ 200 room hotel with 50 service apartments overlooking the river, a Retail Mall with Big Bazaar and Hometown anchors by Future Group, a multi specialty hospital with diagnostic center, a school, a 9 hole golf course, a large sports and recreation club, an exclusive golf club; and above all, a 700 m. long riverfront promenade with fun retail and a marina. The 1,400-crore Batanagar rejuvenation project and The Rs 150-crore “international, four-star deluxe” resort is expected to be opened to guests in 40 months. Holiday Inn is owned by the UK-based InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), which licences it out to franchisees and third parties who operate hotels under management agreements. With an 800-bed multi-speciality hospital also tied up with the Asia Heart Foundation, and international alliances for a “knowledge village” being completed, the contours of the 256.94 acres (1,039,800.2 m²) Batanagar redevelopment are now firmly in place.implementing Calcutta Riverside, is in the process of tying up with Dulwich College, London, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, among others, for the knowledge campus.
The township has been designed with environment friendly design and onsite initiatives like the 25 acres (101,171.5 m²) IT Park registered as Green Building, retention of existing water bodies and recreation of more lined up with geo-textile blankets, retention of as much green cover as possible and careful transplantation of the rest within the site, offsite nursery development, zero sewage discharge, recycled water usage for irrigation and HVAC, use of sustainable building materials like bricks, concrete blocks etc. for the façade treatment, use of screens and shading devices, building envelopes around green courts, etc.
The township has been designed through a collaborative endeavor of some of the design firms across the country. World class physical infrastructure and its sustainable management have been the key initiatives and therefore each of the micro parts have been detailed out by specialized agencies on service verticals, irrigation, transportation, golf course.
Maheshtala
Maheshtala is a city and a municipality under Maheshtala, Thakurpukur, Metiaburuz and Behala police stations of Alipore sadar subdivision in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.-Demographics:...
Municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
.Riverbank Holdings the operating company has finalised a funding of Rs 117.60 crore for the IT SEZ portion of this project on the outskirts of Kolkata. Yatra Capital Ltd will invest the funds in the IT SEZ component of the Calcutta Riverside project in lieu of 50 per cent equity stake in the SEZ. Spread over 25 acres (101,171.5 m²), the IT SEZ will have a built-up area of 21.92 lakh sq.ft. This is the joint venure of Riverbank Holdings Private Ltd. and Bata India Ltd
Bata Shoes
Bata Shoes is a large, family owned shoe company based in Bermuda but currently headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, operating 3 business units worldwide – Bata Metro Markets, Bata Emerging Markets and Bata Branded Business. It has a retail presence in over 50 countries and production...
and CMDA
CMDA
CMDA can refer to:* Christian Medical and Dental Associations, a professional medical association* Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, is the nodal planning agency within the Chennai Metropolitan Area...
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. Calcutta Riverside is a mixed use development with high end residential communities around river, golf course and lakes. It has self-sufficient amenities like an IT park within 25 acres (101,171.5 m²) SEZ, a ‘Crowne Plaza’ 200 room hotel with 50 service apartments overlooking the river, a Retail Mall with Big Bazaar and Hometown anchors by Future Group, a multi specialty hospital with diagnostic center, a school, a 9 hole golf course, a large sports and recreation club, an exclusive golf club; and above all, a 700 m. long riverfront promenade with fun retail and a marina. The 1,400-crore Batanagar rejuvenation project and The Rs 150-crore “international, four-star deluxe” resort is expected to be opened to guests in 40 months. Holiday Inn is owned by the UK-based InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), which licences it out to franchisees and third parties who operate hotels under management agreements. With an 800-bed multi-speciality hospital also tied up with the Asia Heart Foundation, and international alliances for a “knowledge village” being completed, the contours of the 256.94 acres (1,039,800.2 m²) Batanagar redevelopment are now firmly in place.implementing Calcutta Riverside, is in the process of tying up with Dulwich College, London, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, among others, for the knowledge campus.
The township has been designed with environment friendly design and onsite initiatives like the 25 acres (101,171.5 m²) IT Park registered as Green Building, retention of existing water bodies and recreation of more lined up with geo-textile blankets, retention of as much green cover as possible and careful transplantation of the rest within the site, offsite nursery development, zero sewage discharge, recycled water usage for irrigation and HVAC, use of sustainable building materials like bricks, concrete blocks etc. for the façade treatment, use of screens and shading devices, building envelopes around green courts, etc.
The township has been designed through a collaborative endeavor of some of the design firms across the country. World class physical infrastructure and its sustainable management have been the key initiatives and therefore each of the micro parts have been detailed out by specialized agencies on service verticals, irrigation, transportation, golf course.
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