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{{Infobox shopping mall
| name = Garuda Mall Bangalore
| image = Bangalore garuda mall.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| caption = Garuda mall entrance
| location = [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]], [[India]]
| coordinates = {{coord|12.970236|77.60975|type:landmark_region:IN-KA|display=inline,title}}<ref name="Mall location">{{cite news|url=http://www.garudamall.net/about-us/|title=Garuda mall|publisher=Garudamall.net|date=2014-01-09|access-date=2014-03-27}}</ref>
| address = Magrath Road
| opening_date = May 2005
| closing_date =
| developer = Maverick Holdings and Investments
| manager =
| owner = [[Uday Garudachar]] land owned by [[Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike]]
| architect =
| number_of_stores = 120
| number_of_anchors =
| floor_area = {{cvt|126000|sqm}}
| parking = <u>Multistorey Parking lot</u>
| floors = 6
| website = {{URL|garudamall.in}}
| footnotes =
| publictransit = {{rint|bengaluru|metro}} {{rcb|Namma Metro|Purple|broute|X}} at [[MG Road metro station, Delhi|MG Road]]
}}
'''Garuda Mall''' is the premier [[shopping mall]] in the city of [[Bangalore]], India, which is also home to the city's second oldest [[Shoppers Stop]] branch, and the oldest one in the city which is attached to a mall. It is situated on Magrath Road at the heart of the central business district in Bangalore, near [[Brigade Road, Bangalore|Brigade Road]]. The mall has opened another branch in the Heritage City, Mysore near K. R. Circle. Another branch in Kochi with French cuisine and heritage.

== Site and built-up area ==
The Garuda mall is spread out over {{cvt|126,000|sqm}} and includes {{cvt|30,000|sqm}} of shopping and entertainment space on six floors and 180 stores.

== Mall facilities ==
* Retail stores
* Entertainment/activity centers
* Multiplex cinemas ([[INOX Leisure Limited|Inox]])
* Multi-storey parking
* Food court
* Multi-cuisine restaurants
* Bangalore's second oldest Shoppers Stop branch, and the oldest one in the city attached to a mall (the oldest one dating back to 1995 is a multi-storey building called Raheja Point opposite the same mall which is now Ashok Nagar HomeStop)

== Controversies ==

The mall has come under criticism for its safety measures as the [[ThyssenKrupp]] [[Elevator|lift]] in the mall had crashed in 2005<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/12/stories/2005071219170300.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823160208/http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/12/stories/2005071219170300.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=23 August 2007 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Lift in Garuda Mall was overloaded | date=12 July 2005}}</ref> and, in a separate incident, a boy had died of [[Falling (accident)|fall]] from a higher floor in 2007.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200707011963.htm | title = 6-year-old dies after falling from 4th floor of city mall | publisher = [[The Hindu]] | date = 2011-01-30 | access-date = 2011-02-25 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110212135026/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200707011963.htm | archive-date = 2011-02-12 }}</ref>

Garuda Mall is built on the land owned by [[Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike]] (BBMP), and the two parties have a history of conflicts over profit sharing.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/article412660.ece | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200305/http://newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/article412660.ece | url-status = dead | archive-date = 29 October 2013 | title = Standing panel's surprise visit at Garuda Mall | publisher = The New Indian Express | date = 2011-01-30 | access-date = 2011-02-25 }}</ref> The BBMP and Garuda Mall have a [[memorandum of agreement]] on a 48%-52% basis.<ref name="dnaindia_bbmp_bribe">{{cite web | url = http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_bbmp-members-asked-me-for-a-bribe-says-owner-of-garuda-mall-garudachar_1500765 | title = BBMP members asked me for a bribe, says owner of Garuda mall Garudachar | publisher = [[DNA (newspaper)|DNA]] | date = 2011-01-30 | access-date = 2011-02-25 }}</ref>

In January 2011, the BBMP Standing Committee (Markets) decided to carry out a surprise inspection of the mall. According to the Committee chairman and Basaveshwaranagar Ward S corporator SH Padmaraj, they had received complaints of "building deviation by the mall-owner". Padmaraj alleged that the mall was cheating BBMP while housing more than 80 shops on a single floor, while paying a monthly rent of {{INR}} 3.5 million to the BBMP for only 80 shops. He also alleged that the mall had encroached upon a stormwater drain and had converted a parking lot into a food court, violating the agreement.<ref name="dnaindia_bbmp_bribe"/> The mall's majority owner Uday Garudachar claimed that the committee members had no right to conduct an inspection without his permission. He also alleged that the inspection was carried out because he had refused the corporators' demand for a bribe.<ref name="dnaindia_bbmp_bribe"/>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Bangalore|India}}
*[[The Forum (shopping mall)|The Forum]]
*[[Mantri Square]]
*[[Bangalore Central]]
*[[List of shopping malls in India]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{commons category}}
*{{Official website|http://garudamall.in/}}

{{Shopping malls in India}}
{{Bangalore topics}}

[[Category:Shopping malls established in 2005]]
[[Category:Shopping malls in Bengaluru]]
[[Category:2005 establishments in Karnataka]]

Garuda Mall - Revision history

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