One BKC

A blue-chip address in the financial core of Mumbai.

Maker Maxity sits at the centre of Bandra Kurla Complex, the planned business district that has become the undisputed financial core of Mumbai. Where Nariman Point once concentrated the city's banking and corporate power, that gravity has shifted north to BKC — and Maker Maxity is one of the addresses occupiers name first when they want a Grade-A office in the district. Completed in 2013, the tower rises 21 storeys and carries the specification, efficiency and address that a global occupier expects when it signs a long lease in India's most expensive commercial market.

The occupier profile reads like a roll-call of the district: global and domestic banks, private-equity and asset-management funds, management consulting firms, law practices and the India headquarters of several technology majors. That density matters. When a bank, a fund and a consulting firm share a lobby, the building becomes a place where deals get done in person — and that concentration of decision-makers is precisely why a certain kind of occupier will pay a premium to be inside Maker Maxity rather than on the edge of the district.

On specification, the building was built for large-format corporate occupation. Typical floor plates run to about 22,000 sq ft of highly efficient space, with a floor efficiency near 82% — a number that translates directly into more usable seats per rupee of rent. Floor-to-ceiling heights of roughly 3.0 metres, side-core planning that leaves clean rectangular floors, high-speed lifts, full power back-up, structured parking at around one bay per 900 sq ft and an IGBC Gold green rating round out a package that stands up against any tower in BKC. The lobbies and common areas are finished to the standard the address demands, and building management is geared to the expectations of institutional tenants.

Connectivity is the quiet advantage. Maker Maxity is a short walk from the new BKC metro station on Line 3, the underground corridor that finally links the district to the airport and the western suburbs without touching the road network. The Western Express Highway is minutes away, the domestic and international terminals at T2 are roughly 15 minutes in normal traffic, and the Bandra–Worli Sea Link puts South Mumbai within a comfortable drive. For an occupier weighing where to house a workforce drawn from across the city, that combination of metro, highway, airport and sea-link access is hard to match — and it is a large part of why floors in this building rarely stay empty for long.