Garuda mall entrance |
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| Location | Bangalore, Karnataka India |
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| Coordinates | [1] |
| Address | Magrath Road |
| Opening date | May, 2005 |
| Developer | Maverick Holdings and Investments |
| Owner | Uday Garudachar; land owned by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike |
| No. of stores and services | 120 |
| Total retail floor area | 26000 sq. Meters |
| Parking | Multistorey Parking lot |
| No. of floors | 5 |
| Website | Official website |
Garuda Mall is a shopping mall in Bangalore. It is situated on Magrath Road, near to Brigade Road and one of the popular malls in Bangalore.
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The Garuda mall is one of the biggest malls in southern India. It is spread out over 75,000 sq. meters and includes 26,000 sq. meters of shopping and entertainment space on five floors and 120 stores.
In 2005, the Mall was criticised for its safety measures as once the lift in the mall had crashed[2] and in a separate incident a boy had died of fall from a higher floor.[3]
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.[4] The BBMP and Garuda Mall have a memorandum of agreement on a 48%-52% basis.[5]
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 in a single floor, while paying a monthly rent of 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.[5] 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.[5] In aftermath of the incident, the Kaveripura corporator R Prakash withdrew his membership from the Committee, alleging "ill-treatment" by Garudachar during the inspection.[6]