Nungambakkam

Inter-city Road

Global Technology Corporations

Consulting & Professional Services

Pharma & Healthcare

BFSI & Financial Services

Real Estate & Hospitality

Grade A Buildings (Strata / Floor Lease)

Talent Pipeline

Nearest Metro Station

• Thousand Lights (Blue Line / Line 1), ~1 km (currently the most accessible metro for Nungambakkam offices), *Phase 2 (Corridor 3):* Nungambakkam station planned on the Red Line (Madhavaram to SIPCOT); CMRL has identified Nungambakkam as a station with commercial development potential

Nearest Railway Station

• Nungambakkam Suburban, ~0.5 km (Chennai Suburban Railway Network), Chennai Egmore, ~3 km

Airport

• Chennai International Airport (MAA), ~13 km via Anna Salai / Inner Ring Road

Major Highway / Expressway

• Anna Salai, ~0.5 km east; direct access to the full CBD spine and Inner Ring Road, Nungambakkam High Road (Uthamar Gandhi Salai), the main commercial artery

Key Feeder Roads

• Khader Nawaz Khan Road, luxury retail and boutique office street, Sterling Road, connects north to Chetpet and Kilpauk, Greams Road, hospital and consulting cluster to the east

Nearest Mall / Amenity Hub

• Chennai Citi Centre (Nungambakkam High Road), ~0.5 km, Express Avenue Mall, ~3 km

Bus / BRTS

• MTC routes along Nungambakkam High Road; multiple services via Thousand Lights bus stop connecting to all of Chennai

Inter-city Road

• T Nagar, ~2.5 km south, CBD (Anna Salai), ~0.5 km east Nungambakkam's reputation is built on address value. Among Chennai's commercial sub-markets, it consistently commands the second-highest premium rents after Anna Salai itself, and hosts a concentration of global MNCs that rivals any other South Indian micro-market. The commercial character is distinctly different from OMR: no large IT campuses, no SEZ parks, no post-construction shell-and-core leasing. Instead, Nungambakkam offers finished Grade A floors in multi-tenanted buildings, with global MNC name-recognition from neighbouring tenants. Companies like Microsoft, Oracle, PwC, KPMG, Pfizer, and Coca-Cola maintain offices here precisely for the address signal it sends to clients and recruits. The neighbourhood's walkability is also notable. Khader Nawaz Khan Road is one of the few genuinely walkable commercial streets in Chennai, with boutique offices, five-star hotels (ITC Grand Chola is nearby), high-end dining, and diplomatic missions creating a European-style commercial strip. This makes Nungambakkam suitable for sales offices, leadership teams, and professional services practices that prioritise client experience. Phase 2 of the Chennai Metro will add a Nungambakkam station and, notably, CMRL has identified Nungambakkam as one of the stations with significant commercial development potential for retail and offices within the station complex itself.

Global Technology Corporations

Microsoft India (regional office), Oracle India (sales/regional office), Cisco Systems (office presence)

Consulting & Professional Services

PwC India, KPMG India, Deloitte (Chennai office), EY India (offices)

Pharma & Healthcare

Pfizer India (Chennai office), Novartis (regional office)

BFSI & Financial Services

Standard Chartered Bank (regional HQ), HSBC India (branch), ICICI Bank (corporate), Citibank

Consumer & Retail

Coca-Cola India (South India HQ)

Real Estate & Hospitality

ITC Grand Chola (5-star, adjacent), multiple luxury hotels and serviced apartments

Grade A Buildings (Strata / Floor Lease)

• Nungambakkam High Road commercial strip, multiple Grade A multi-tenanted buildings with floor lease; highest rents in the Nungambakkam sub-market, Khader Nawaz Khan Road buildings, boutique offices above retail; premium walkable address, Sterling Road corridor, transitional CBD-to-residential buildings; Grade B+ to A

Managed Offices

• WorkVilla (Nungambakkam), Coworking and private cabin configurations in the CBD cluster, IndiQube Wave (Thousand Lights, adjacent), 4 and 6-seater private cabins at competitive CBD rates

Coworking Spaces

• Multiple boutique coworking operators on and around Nungambakkam High Road serve the CBD professional belt

Power & Connectivity

Core urban grid with uninterrupted supply in Grade A buildings. All enterprise fibre ISPs available.

Talent Pipeline

• Loyola College (~2 km), Stella Maris College (~1 km), Women's Christian College (~2 km), Proximity to multiple management institutes and MBA programs in the broader CBD

Grade A & ESG Assets

While Nungambakkam lacks the large park-format green buildings of OMR, newer commercial developments in the sub-market are built to LEED/IGBC standards. The ~600,000 sq ft pipeline under development across the CBD cluster includes buildings targeting green certification.