The Hindu Business Line : South City shopping mall a big draw

Snapshot
Covering an area of more than a million sq ft, the South City mall on the Prince Anwar Shah Road is one of the largest shopping facilities the city has ever seen.
It has more than 650,000 sq ft of retail space and over 134 retail outlets.

Manish Basu

Kolkata, Feb. 3 The number of people visiting the South City shopping mall on Sundays has already hit the 75,000-mark, says Mr Sanjeev Mehra, Vice-President, Mall Operations.

With the Spencer’s anchor store having opened recently — and the six-screen Fame multiplex scheduled to be operational soon — the footfall at South Kolkata’s newest shopping destination is all set to go up further.

Covering an area of more than a million sq ft, the South City mall on the Prince Anwar Shah Road is one of the largest shopping facilities the city has ever seen.

It has more than 650,000 sq ft of retail space and over 134 retail outlets.

“We are registering a footfall of over 20,000 on the weekdays.

On Saturdays it is going up to 45,000, with the figure reaching its highest level on Sundays,” says Mr Mehra.

The Fame multiplex will be operational in another 10 days.

Some other popular outlets such as Shopper’s Stop are all set to open soon, which will draw an even larger crowd.

The mall has a nine-level car park that can accommodate almost 1, 350 vehicles.

“On Sundays we are accommodating almost 7,000 cars throughout the day without any problem,” Mr Mehra said.

traffic woes

As regards the traffic snarls taking place in the area, the South City mall official said the problem was being caused mainly “by a large number of roads offloading traffic into the Jadavpur connector to the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass.

The problem started sometime ago, and we cannot be blamed for it,” Mr Mehra said.

Flyover

He added that South City was ready to contribute to the building of the proposed flyover from Lake Gardens to the Jadavpur police station crossing if that would help in improving the situation.

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