400-acre model township for Pune

Pune is on a fast track in industrial and economic growth. Fuelled by the IT boom, there is a huge demand for housing in the city. Estimated at about 40,000 houses added every year, the challenge would be to provide basic housing infrastructure with related facilities.
Realising the challenge ahead, the government of Maharashtra had issued guidelines to allow private participation in designing fully integrated townships with world class infrastructure, modelled on international quality of living standards, at prices that are affordable. And City Corporation, a part of City Group, a leading real estate developer in Pune, is the first to get the green signal to plan a township, called Amanora Park Town.
“The government wanted more than 100 acres land, with the developer providing the entire infrastructure. There were no corporates with a vision to take up such a large township. Some of us likeminded promoters come together to develop City Corporation, where the mission is to create quality homes in an integrated township with related infrastructure--commercial, social, educational, health and entertainment--to provide customers value for their money,” says Aniruddha Deshpande, MD, City Corporation.
Amanora Park Town, located at Hadapsar, is spread over 400 acres and will be a self containing property having schools, college, state-ofthe art hospital, restaurants, sports, shopping arcades and entertainment centres—all within walking distance.
The township will offers 24x7 power supply, abundant water supply (no need to hire water tankers) and no encroachments, all in a pollution free atmosphere.
“Our vision for Amanora is to create a new town with positive urban attributes and not a suburban dormitory housing development--we do not want to promote sprawl.
In this context, we welcome the density and see Amanora Park Town as a model for future ‘edge’ developments,” says Deshpande.
Residential areas range from independent houses to mid-rise and high-rise apartments, interspersed with green areas, parks and water bodies.