Template:Infobox shopping mall Express Avenue (Tamil: எக்ஸ்ப்ரெஸ் அவென்யூ) is a shopping mall in Chennai promoted by Express Infrastructure, A division of Express Newspapers Pvt. Ltd.[1] It is home to the largest gaming arcade in South India. Built at a cost of Template:INR Convert, the mall is spread over Template:Convert, including Template:Convert of leasable (retail) area. The mall has 10 anchor tenants and 150 vanilla tenants.[2]
Description
The mall is situated near the Royapettah Clock Tower. The mall is built on a 8-acre site inside the historic Indian Express Estate and has four floors of retail space, a building for corporate offices and a hotel. Out of 10 acres, about 3.57 acres have been taken up by buildings. The rest have been used for car parking, drive-ways and landscaping. In all, the mall has 26 lifts, 34 escalators and 4 travelators.[2]
Express Avenue hosts a mixture of shopping, business and leisure. The mall is bounded by Whites Road, Woods Road and Patullos Road and has a three-level basement parking space for over 1,500 cars and a parking area for bikes. It has a total development of Template:Convert including 900,000 sq ft of retail space, 100,000 sq. ft of hotel, 200,000 sq. ft of office space, 400,000 sq ft of parking space.[2] The mall was inaugurated on 26 May 2010.[3]
E Hotel, a 44-room four-star boutique hotel, was built in the mall at a cost of Template:INR 300 million.[4]
Entertainment and leisure
The entertainment portion of the mall is Template:Convert. The Escape Cinemas, the second branch of SPI Cinemas, consists of an 08-screens multiplex with a capacity of 1,600 seats covering Template:Convert, which is the city's largest cineplex. California-based Giovanni Castor played a key role in the overall design of Escape.[5] The mall is home to the largest gaming arcade in South India.
Besides stand-alone stores like Bath & Body Works, Burberry, Montblac, Lacoste, Moschino and Armani Exchange the mall has an Template:Convert Lifestyle and a 65,000 sq. ft Pantaloon, Big Bazaar, H&M and Forever 21. The anchor tenants are expected to take 300,000 to 400,000 sq ft, while the vanilla tenants would occupy up to 400,000 sq. ft. The Template:Convert food court has 25 counters and includes food chains such as Chili's, McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut. The mall has six atria with a height not less than 75 ft each. The atrium areas are covered with tensile fabric and the centre of the atrium is covered with glass.[2] Express Avenue has also have an exclusive showrooms for BMW and Volvo.
Food court
The Template:Convert court, also called EA Garden, has 25 counters with several food and beverage options including Oriental, North Indian, South Indian, American and Italian.[6]
Fun City
Fun City, a prominent attraction of the mall, is a play area for children.
Business chamber
The business chamber is the first such marketing space to be built inside a mall in India. The area of this zone is over Template:Convert of office space at prices intended to compete with special economic zones and IT parks elsewhere in the city.
Parking
The three-level basement parking is equipped to handle about 2,000 vehicles.[6]
EA Bot (Express Assistant)
In April 2017, the center launched the customer assistant robot EA Bot in the mall at Royapettah.[7][8] The autonomous robot uses image processing for its movement around the center atrium. EA Bot was developed in collaboration with a maker community in Chennai.
Gallery
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Express Avenue Chennai
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Ignited hoarding at night
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Interiors of Express Avenue
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Lotus-Renault F1 car on display during an event
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EA Bot - India's first customer assistant robot deployed in Express Avenue Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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Christmas Carnival 2020
See also
References
- ↑ Express Avenue, Chennai to soft launch in April. India Retailing. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mall inclusive. The Hindu(25 December 2009). Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ↑ Express Avenue Details.
- ↑ Express Newspaper group enters hotels biz. Chennai Realty.biz(5 August 2012). Retrieved 7 August 2012.
- ↑ Let the show begin. The Hindu(22 August 2010). Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 South India's largest mall in Chennai inaugurated, SME News. Indiamart.com(1 September 2010). Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ↑ Express Avenue launches robot to enhance visitors experience. Business Standard India(22 April 2017). Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ↑ Live Chennai: The latest hi-tech robot in Chennai Express Avenue Mall,robot, Chennai Express Avenue Mall,EA BOT, J.Sampath. www.LiveChennai.com. Retrieved 5 May 2017.