Express Avenue is a shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 in Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

 promoted by Express Infrastructure, a subsidiary of The Indian Express

The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is published in Mumbai by Indian Express Group. After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split in 1999 among his family members into two with the southern editions taking the name The New Indian Express, while the old...

 Group. It is Chennai's largest shopping mall with 900,000 sq. ft. of retail space. It is also home to the largest gaming arcade in South India.

Description

Express Avenue hosts a mixture of shopping, business, and leisure. The mall is bound by Whites Road, Woods Road, and Patullos Road, and has a three-level basement parking space for over 1500 cars and a parking area for bikes. It is the biggest mall in South Asia.It was inaugurated on May 26, 2010.

Entertainment and leisure

The entertainment portion of the mall is 70000 square feet (6,503.2 m²). The Escape Cinemas consists of an eight-screen multiplex with capacity to entertain 1300 people. California-based Giovanni Castor played a key role in the overall design of Escape. The mall is home to the largest gaming arcade in South India.

The Mall also hosts one of the finest Toy Stores in the World - Hamleys

Hamleys

Hamleys is one of the world's largest toy shops. Its flagship store is in Regent Street, London. Major stores worldwide are in Dublin, Dubai, Amman, Glasgow, Mumbai and Chennai....

. The iconic store from the UK, has a large 11,000 sq. ft. store near the main atrium. From the London Bus, Barbie Doll House to a mini racing track, you find them all in Hamleys

Hamleys

Hamleys is one of the world's largest toy shops. Its flagship store is in Regent Street, London. Major stores worldwide are in Dublin, Dubai, Amman, Glasgow, Mumbai and Chennai....

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Business chamber

The business chamber is the first such marketing space to be built inside a mall in India. The area of this zone is over 200000 sq ft (18,580.6 m²) of office space at prices intended to compete with special economic zones and IT parks elsewhere in the City.