Garuda Mall
building in India
Garuda Mall is the premier shopping mall in the city of Bangalore, India, which is also home to the city's second oldest Shoppers Stop branch, and the oldest one in the city which is attached to a mall. It is situated on Magrath Road at the heart of the central business district in Bangalore, near Brigade Road. The mall has opened another branch in the Heritage City, Mysore near K. R. Circle. Another branch in Kochi with French cuisine and heritage.
Site and built-up area
The Garuda mall is spread out over 126,000 m2 (1,360,000 sq ft) and includes 30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft) of shopping and entertainment space on six floors and 180 stores.
Mall facilities
Retail stores
Entertainment/activity centers
Multiplex cinemas (Inox)
Multi-storey parking
Food court
Multi-cuisine restaurants
Bangalore's second oldest Shoppers Stop branch, and the oldest one in the city attached to a mall (the oldest one dating back to 1995 is a multi-storey building called Raheja Point opposite the same mall which is now Ashok Nagar HomeStop)
Controversies
The mall has come under criticism for its safety measures as the ThyssenKrupp lift in the mall had crashed in 2005 and, in a separate incident, a boy had died of fall from a higher floor in 2007.
Garuda Mall is built on the land owned by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), and the two parties have a history of conflicts over profit sharing. The BBMP and Garuda Mall have a memorandum of agreement on a 48%-52% basis.
In January 2011, the BBMP Standing Committee (Markets) decided to carry out a surprise inspection of the mall. According to the Committee chairman and Basaveshwaranagar Ward S corporator SH Padmaraj, they had received complaints of "building deviation by the mall-owner".
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