Brigade Group announced the acquisition of Brooke Bond Real Estate Pvt Ltd, through Brigade Properties Pvt Ltd, its joint venture with GIC Singapore, in March 2015. The plan was to develop an IT Special Economic Zone of over 3 million sq ft in the landmark location of Brookefields, Whitefield, Bangalore. The site's large frontage on ITPL Main Road gave it natural connectivity to two IT hubs at once, Whitefield on one side and the Outer Ring Road on the other. That land parcel, once the Brooke Bond estate that gave the locality its name, is the ground on which Brigade's Brookefield story is built.
Brigade Group already had an association with GIC Singapore through its first joint venture, Brigade Cosmopolis, a high-end residential project at the heart of Whitefield built to house over 880 families. The Brookefield acquisition extended that partnership from housing into a full IT campus, marking one of Brigade's larger institutional collaborations in East Bangalore.
The Bhoomi Puja for Brigade Tech Gardens was held on 18 January 2017. Its master plan was designed by the Seattle-based architectural firm NBBJ. The finished development is a Grade A IT SEZ commercial project in Brookefield, built by Brigade Group in collaboration with GIC Singapore. It is a 3 million sq ft LEED Platinum-certified campus with coworking space, parking for over 5,000 cars, and direct access to the Outer Ring Road and Whitefield.
The property sits just 2.5 km from the ORR-Marathahalli junction, at the heart of the Outer Ring Road, giving it access to the North, South, East, and Central business districts. It is roughly 6 km from Whitefield Railway Station, about 2 km from the nearest metro station, and 35 km from Kempegowda International Airport. For a developer whose commercial arm competes for large corporate and GCC tenants, that ORR-and-Whitefield double connectivity is the campus's core proposition.
Brigade markets apartments within Brigade Tech Gardens as modern living with premium amenities in one of Bangalore's most sought-after locations. The residential block sits inside the same integrated campus as the office towers, letting a resident buyer inherit the security, landscaping, and civic infrastructure Brigade built for its institutional office tenants and GIC as a co-investor. Possession on this address began in December 2022, so it is a completed, occupied part of the campus rather than an under-construction phase.
Brookefield traces back to the late 19th century, when it was established as a settlement for the Eurasians of Bangalore. Over the decades it grew into a posh, well-off part of the city with commercial roads such as ITPL Road and a concentration of leading MNCs and residential projects around it. Its closeness to ITPL, EPIP, and other IT hubs continues to make it a preferred address for tech professionals. The locality is linked by Brookefield Road, Whitefield Main Road, HAL Airport Road, and Varthur Road, giving it smooth access to other parts of the city.
Brookefield has seen almost 27 percent price appreciation over the last three years, helped by metro connectivity and its proximity to Whitefield and Marathahalli. Apartment rates in the locality are quoted around ₹16,850 per sq ft on active listings, and rentals for 1 to 3 BHK apartments currently run between roughly Rs 20,000 and Rs 73,000 a month. That combination of steady appreciation and a deep rental pool is precisely the demand base a large-format campus like Brigade Tech Gardens is built to serve, on both the leasing and residential sides.
Brigade Group traces its roots to 10 October 1986, when the foundation stone for its maiden project, Brigade Towers on Brigade Road, was laid by founder M.R. Jaishankar. That project, completed in 1989, was the first private high-rise building in Bangalore. The company went public in 2007 and is listed on the NSE and BSE, with net sales rising to Rs 7,847 crore in FY25, a 31 percent increase year-on-year, and total collections of Rs 7,250 crore for the year. It has completed over 280 projects spanning more than 86 million sq ft across residential, commercial, retail, and hospitality categories. Founder M.R. Jaishankar continues as Executive Chairman, with the company now also led by his daughters Pavitra Shankar as Managing Director and Nirupa Shankar as Joint Managing Director.
Brookefield was not Brigade's first bet on East Bangalore's IT corridor. Its Brigade Metropolis project in Whitefield became one of the company's landmark early large-scale developments, establishing Brigade's identity as a township developer and reflecting an early wager on the east Bangalore IT corridor. Brigade Tech Gardens extends that same corridor strategy into a GIC-backed, SEZ-scale campus a few kilometres closer to the Outer Ring Road.
A buyer evaluating Brigade Group in Brookefield is effectively evaluating access to one integrated campus rather than a scattered set of towers: a LEED Platinum office park built with an institutional partner, a residential block inside the same gated perimeter, and a locality with established roads, an operating metro line, and MNC-driven rental demand already in place. For a listed developer with a four-decade record in Bangalore, Brookefield represents one of its more deliberate, capital-intensive plays on the city's eastern IT belt.