21 Jun 2010
I wonder what 'backhander' (money, property ... etc) the Brahma Kumaris got out of this one!?! Hysterical once one reads the "Largest Shopping Mall in Mangalore" includes a 5 screen cinema ... once known as the gateway to hell and banned for his adherents by original leader and relative Lekhraj Kirpalani. Religious business woman, daughter of the "Clever Businessman", as the BKs call their god, Janki Kripalani is never slow to spot a bargain but surely this fully air-conditioned mall is a step beyond her usual levels of hypocrisy?
I guess all those years experience of cracking open coconuts to celebrate new BK centers has finally paid off and she has found her niche is society ... ousting local pundits, caste born Brahmins and Bollywood VIPs from their usual fee earning occupation. Five levels of parking space for 800 four wheelers and 1000 two wheelers suggest this mall is, like the BKWSU, targeting India's wealthy middle classes.
Screw the environmental impact too ... it is all going to be destroyed in Destruction ... materialism is the new spiritualism!!!
You can just imagine Janki telling the developers and investors, "Remember Baba, it is all going to be destroyed in 2 to 3 years anyway ..."
I guess all those years experience of cracking open coconuts to celebrate new BK centers has finally paid off and she has found her niche is society ... ousting local pundits, caste born Brahmins and Bollywood VIPs from their usual fee earning occupation. Five levels of parking space for 800 four wheelers and 1000 two wheelers suggest this mall is, like the BKWSU, targeting India's wealthy middle classes.
Screw the environmental impact too ... it is all going to be destroyed in Destruction ... materialism is the new spiritualism!!!
You can just imagine Janki telling the developers and investors, "Remember Baba, it is all going to be destroyed in 2 to 3 years anyway ..."
CITY CENTRE, the largest mall in Mangalore to be opened on April 25 - 4/18/2010
City Centre, which is acclaimed to be the 10th largest mall in India and the second largest mall in Karnataka, will be launched at K S Rao Road in Mangalore on April 25 by Dadi Jankiji, the chief of the Brahma Kumaris, at 11 a.m. with District-in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar as the chief guest of the programme.
S M Arshad, the managing director of Motisham Complexes and the developer of this mall, said that the mall houses more than 170 national and international tenants. He was speaking to journalists at a press conference held on Saturday. S M Saud, the executive director of Mohtisham, and Dharmaraj, Architect of the Project were present on the press meet.
- City center 2_1.JPG (88.3 KiB) Viewed 7783 times
Mr. Arshad said that the major anchors of the Rs 115 crore project are Spar Hypermarket, Westside, Lifestyle, Reliance Timeout, Reliance Trends, Reliance Digital, Mom and Me, Sports XS, Reliance Jewels, Gili, Planet Sports, Hidesign, Lush, and the Body Shop. A five-screen cinema operated by Cinepolis, the fourth largest multiplex based in Mexico, will be the highlight of the mall, he said.
The mall has seven levels of retail shopping space, five levels of parking space for 800 four wheelers and 1000 two wheelers. There are eight passenger lifts, two travelators, 27 escalators, and five freight lifts.
Dharmaraj, the Architect of the Project said that the fully air-conditioned mall has absolute back-up power supply. Moreover, the projecft has state of the art fire and safety measures of international standard and it is as per the National Building Code stipulation.
Responding to a query about the retaining wall controversy, Mr. Dharmaraj said that they have taken extra care and spend over 10 lacs for the protection wall.