Bypass to have 7 hotels, may be more

Come some 7 years from now to the city with no particular address to take refuge, chance is you’ll be heading to EM Bypass to lodge at one of the many hotels that will dot the arterial road. And mind you all of these hotels will be at least 5-star properties, if not better, vying for your attention.

As of now there’s ITC Sonar Bangla opposite Science City, and at Kadapara adjoining the giant Salt Lake Stadium is the Hyatt Regency.

Among the new ones the first off the block will be twin 5-star hotels on the nearly 7-acre plot beside ITC Sonar Bangla to its north that was acquired by the Emaar-MGF Group last year. The 2 hotels here will be Holiday Inn Bangla and the exclusive JW Marriot, both with 250 rooms each.

Close to Emaar-MGF plot is coming up DLF’s 600-room, Rs.500 crore hotel with Hilton. And at the Ruby Hospital crossing the place from where the 3-wheeler autos start for Gariahat will see massive activities in the form of 200-room Taj Gateway Hotel coming up.

If these are not sufficient, there is more. The grapevine has it that the 5-acre plot in Chandra Garden opposite the Science City on the eastern side of the Bypass that has just been acquired by the LIC will house a 5-star hotel apart from other buildings.

There may be more as the development of the entire stretch on Bypass speeds up. Did anyone imagine even 2 years back that there would be at least 7 top-notch hotels in the city in one particular stretch only? No doubt the story in Kolkata is fast changing.