Nariman Point

Mumbai's tallest buildings are located at Nariman Point

Nariman Point is Mumbai's premier business district. It was named after Khursheed Framji Nariman, a Parsi visionary. The area is situated on land reclaimed from the sea. It had the distinction of having the highest commercial real estate rental space in the world in 1995 at $175 per square foot ($1880/m²). As per 2006 the area prices rose sharply to 450 US$ per sqft. ($4800/m²)The area is situated on the extreme southern tip of Marine Drive. It houses some of India's premier business headquarters. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 281 KB) Image of Nariman Point showing 1st famous Air India Building, 2nd Hotel Hilton Towers, in Bombay, India taken in year 2005 by Abhishek Madhani. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 281 KB) Image of Nariman Point showing 1st famous Air India Building, 2nd Hotel Hilton Towers, in Bombay, India taken in year 2005 by Abhishek Madhani. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x647, 27 KB) The Marine Drive Skyline, view from across the bay looking towards Nariman Point. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x647, 27 KB) The Marine Drive Skyline, view from across the bay looking towards Nariman Point. ... Mumbai (IPA: ,Marathi: मुंबई), formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India, with an estimated population of about 13 million (as of 2006)[1]. Mumbai is located on Salsette Island, off the west coast of Maharashtra. ... Khursheed Framji Nariman (also known as Veer Nariman) was one of the second generation of Parsi stalwarts in the Indian National Congress. ... A Parsi (IPA: ) is a member of the close-knit Zoroastrian community based in the Indian subcontinent. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marine Drive looking south Marine Drive is a 3 km long boulevard in South Mumbai in the city of Mumbai. ...

Commercial establishments

• State Bank of India
• Kotak Mahindra Bank
• Kotak Securities
• Bakhtawar Tower
• Express Towers, home to the Indian Express newspaper
• The Air India Building, Headquarters of Air India
• Maker Chambers
• The Hilton Towers Hotel, formerly known as Oberoi Towers
• Reserve Bank of India
• British Consulate and British Library
• HeadQuarters of Bank of India
• French Consulate and Trade Mission
• National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)
• Mittal Towers
• Vidhyan Sabha
• Consulate of Oman, Qatar etc.
• Birla Bhavan
• Bajaj Bhawan - Bajaj group's CEO and member of Parliament, Rahul Bajaj

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History

Prior to 1940, the area was part of the sea. A popular leader of the Congress, Khurshid Nariman (also titled as Veer Nariman), a Bombay Municipal Corporation corporator, proposed to reclaim the area from the sea near Churchgate. To accomplish this task, debris from various parts of the city was dumped here to fill in the shallows. Reinforced concrete cement was used, of which the imported steel used was obtained from the black market at a higher price due to the World War II. This led to a furore and Nariman was sacked. The entire cost was estimated to be Rs. 3 lakhs or Rs. 300,000 (now Rs. 10 crores or Rs. 100,000,000) Additional reclamations were carried out in the 1970s. A construction boom in that decade saw this region spurting many commercial high-rises. Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... --207. ... Indias richest municipal organisation. ... Churchgate is an area in downtown South Mumbai getting its name from the famous Churchgate Railway Station. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... A lakh (Hindi: लाख, Urdu: Ù„Ú©Ú¾, Bengali: , Tamil : இலட்சம்) also spelled lac, lacs, lacks, laksha, or lectcham (in Tamil) is a unit in the Indian numbering system, widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. ... A crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system, still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...