If you have the urge to splurge, a trip to the airport could soon be the best option. The Mumbai Airport is slated to have an ultra modern shopping arcades and food courts that will house the best known international brands.
Jones Lang LaSalle (JSL) has been appointed to identify potential tenants at the proposed facilities that will be created before and after the security clearance area.
The shopping area will sport the best known international brands and restaurant chains, GVK Reddy, chairman, Mumbai International Airport Ltd, told DNA Money, elaborating on the Rs 5,200 crore investment plan for the Mumbai airport. The airport will have new lounges after the security clearance area so that passengers do not have to waste time after checking in. While Indian and Jet Airways have their own lounges at the airport, others do not. Kingfisher and Sahara, too, will have exclusive lounges soon, Reddy said. Meanwhile, GVK will set up three subsidiary companies that will take up airport related activities. The first of these will take up development of alternative dwellings for the 85,000 odd families living in the slums surrounding the Mumbai International Airport.
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