What’s common to Forum, that famed Elgin Road shopping plaza, and Calcutta International School (CIS)? The answer is The Courtyard. The what, you may ask.
Well, The Courtyard is in fact the name of what Forum plans to build in the school’s erstwhile 20 Lee Road campus. It is that patch of land, which is adjacent to the existing plaza, and it is here that it plans to expand horizontally even as the school has shifted to its new campus off EM Bypass, close to Ruby Hospital.
It’s good for both. CIS’ new campus is spacious, and the building it has built with wings on either side looks really impressive. The students and the faculty though are a tad uncomfortable in big rooms and plenty of space, habituated as they were in the school’s cramped building earlier.
If it’s good news for Calcutta International School, so it is for Forum. It has apparently acquired the school’s Lee Road land on which it now plans to build the annexe, The Courtyard, that will connect with the main building at all levels through bridges and corridors.
What’s more, the annexe is being planned as a cube-like sophisticated exterior in which there will be spiral shaft from second to sixth floor that will accommodate all of 550 parked cars. The basement, ground and first floor will have 40,000 sq ft of retail space in addition to the anchors, Shoppers Stop and INOX and others.
The highpoint is of course the car park, and who knows the aces up their sleeves may well propel Forum ahead of many other malls coming up elsewhere. The focus is at last shifting in favor of convenience of shoppers, which is welcome.
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