14-floor car park a reality in BKC

Have a car but can't find a place to park at the Bandra-Kurla Complex?  Relax, here is some good news. A 14-storied car park with a capacity to accommodate 800 cars will be thrown opened by the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) in October.

The authority has been planning multi-storied car parks across the Bandra-Kurla Complex for quite some time now.  At present, the complex has a parking capacity of nearly 2,000 cars on the street. The facility is not enough for the number of vehicles plying through the busy suburban business hub. A plot ad-measuring 15,000 sq metre was allotted to East India Hotel Ltd in 2001.

A hotel was to be constructed on the plot which had a total built-up area of 60,000 sq metres. According to the agreement, the allottee was to construct a separate multi-story building with a minimum built-up area of 30,000 sq metres, offering about 800 slots for car parking. This car park was supposed to be handed over to the MMRDA free of cost.

Accordingly, the car park, with 14 floors and a two-level basement parking facility, is now ready for use. According to MMRDA spokesperson Dilip Kawathkar, the park will have refreshment facilities, offices, shops and a separate parking area for these establishments.

“The parking charges will be similar to that of the charges by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The maintenance of the park will be outsourced. This tendering process is under way and following which the park will be thrown open to the
public in October,” informed Kawathkar.