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PUNE MAY 11 : Pune’s skyline is all set to change. The city will soon have its first 22 storey high-rise residential complex on a 400-acre integrated township. This is under the special township policy brought out by the Maharashtra government.

Real estate developer, City Corporation, has roped in 70 farmers in Hadapsar in Pune who have been co-opted as shareholders in the township called Amanora Park Town.
City Corporation is promoted by Aniruddha Deshpande, who is considered to be close to NCP leader Sharad Pawar. “This is Maharashtra’s first high rise residential project outside of Mumbai. The first offerings of Amanora Park Town will have 10 towers, each between 18- 22 stories high,” Deshpande, MD, City Corporation Ltd said. The Rs 9,000 crore township will have its own 100 mw power plant, a railway station and be a digital city.

The township will totally consist of 16,000 apartments in ten 18-22-storey towers designed by the Singapore based architects P&T Consultants Pvt Ltd. This includes 680 apartments of two bedroom, three bedroom and four bedroom luxury apartments which will be ready for occupation in 24 months.

The company has received clearances from the railway authorities for setting up a railway station and is willing to invest for the infrastructure for setting up the railway station,” Deshpande said.

He expected the railways station to commence once a critical mass was reached in the next couple of years.

Source:THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS