Tuesday, February 19, 2008

At crossroads or just cross eyed ?

Office space rentals have risen 30 per cent in the city central business district Nariman Point and 20 to 25 per cent in Lower Parel in the past year. Leading developers including DLF, Indiabulls, Peninsula and retail pioneer Future Group now are rethinking. Why not convert space reserved for retail malls and hyper markets into large office space…?

But then you have Lakewood malls, the retail arm of Hiranandani (Haiko) zeroing in on supermarkets, lifestyle stores and culture shops as its focus.

An industry at crossroads or is it just cross eyed vision? I'd like to believe it's strategy. But they say, strategy means folding in the future. Not extrapolating the past. Soon we'll figure that out.
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