Tuesday, December 23, 2008

A Place for all

The only area in navi Mumbai, which has a five-star hotel, tourist place and is the hub for several government-based offices
CBD belapur is considered to be one of the largest assembly constituencies of Navi Mumbai. With offices like Konkan Bhavan, Navi Mumabi police headquarters, CIDCO, Navi Mumbai municipal Corporation (NMMC), etc, it certainly is the Central Business District (CBD) OF THE satellite city.
Apart from head offices, CBD Belapur is also becoming a hub for hotels. Recently, the city’s first five-star hotel, The Park, opened at sector 10 in CBD BELAPUR. Apart from this, there is K-star, a three-star hotel and Dakshin hotel. Originally, one side of the land was developed for business activities and other was developed for residential purposes.
“Earlier, only CBD Belapur(west) was developed by CIDCO as a residential area. However, skyscrapers were eventually developed on the east side by builders as well,” said Neha Varshney, a resident of Bille Vista, sector 11.
CBD Belapur is also well-connected with Mumbai through local trains and BEST buses. In fact, the area was one of the first nodes to have the luxury Starbus of BEST, especially bus route no 505 (from Belapur to Bandra) and bus route no 504 till Vadala.
Mukesh Binjola, a resident from the area said, “We have a resident from the area, said, “We have a Belapur local for CST AND Andheri, which are very comfortable. Apart from this, we earlier used to have hovercraft from this, we earlier used to have hovercraft services operating from sarovar Vihar till Gateway of India, but for some reason, they discontinued due to operational reasons.”
As far as real estate processes are concerned, CBD Belapur rules the roost.
“The residential property rates in some of the areas are as high as Rs 4,500-5,000 per sq ft and the commercial rates for property are about Rs 8, 000,” informed Rahul Gupta, a city based real estate agent.
In Navi Mumbai, CBD Belapur is the only place that has special houses for artistes. In place that has special houses for artistes. In the mid-eighties, CIDCO constructed a colony called Artistes village in sector 8. Hundreds of people for various field of art purchased flats at concessional rates.
“CIDCO has taken efforts to give a good view of greenery and open sky from every individual house. The area is surrounded by the hills, which overlooks scenic waterfalls,” says Ashok Patil, a resident of sector 8, CBD Belapur.
The area has a lake to its credit. The residents have also been promised of an art gallery at Guarav Mhatre building by the NMMC. CIDCO has also invited artists to settle at Artiste village. At the intersection of Uran and Palm Beach road, there is a Belapur fort, which dates back to 1560-1570. The fort was built by the sides of janjira.

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