Brigade Enterprises Limited traces its roots to 10 October 1986, when founder M.R. Jaishankar laid the foundation stone for the company's maiden project, Brigade Towers on Brigade Road.
Brigade Group traces its roots to 10th October 1986, when the foundation stone for its maiden project, Brigade Towers on Brigade Road, was laid by founder M.R. Jaishankar. Since then the company has grown from a single Bengaluru address into a listed, multi-city developer: Brigade Enterprises Limited went public in 2007 and is listed on both the NSE and BSE, offering transparency through regular financial disclosures and compliance filings. With a track record of 280+ completed projects and over 86 million sq ft of developed space, the company has become a trusted name among homebuyers, and its record includes an unusually clean delivery history: its record across four decades includes zero abandoned projects among its RERA-registered launches. The group's operating model is also unusually broad for an Indian developer: Brigade operates Grade-A offices (World Trade Center Bangalore), retail (Orion Malls), hospitality (Sheraton, Holiday Inn, Grand Mercure) and education (Brigade School) — a cross-vertical operating capability that few Indian developers match.
Gummanahalli, on Bengaluru's northern edge, sits inside the part of that footprint built around the Kempegowda International Airport corridor, and it is here that Brigade has chosen to run two very different product formats side by side — a large gated apartment township and a plotted development — within a few kilometres of each other.
Brigade's largest and longest-running commitment to this stretch of North Bangalore is Brigade El Dorado. Brigade Eldorado sits in the KIADB Industrial Area, Gummanahalli, offering 2 BHK apartments in a 50-acre township with 5000 units. The township has been developed in phases and towers, each carrying its own name and RERA registration rather than being sold as one undifferentiated block: Aurum at Brigade El Dorado, Luminaire at Brigade El Dorado, Dioro at Brigade El Dorado and Cobalt at Brigade El Dorado each hold separate RERA numbers, alongside earlier towers such as Beryl and Emerald. Aurum, the most recent phase, is positioned as the project's flagship: Tower Aurum with its spectacular views, unmatched homes, and high desirability, stands as a symbol of luxury and elegance, offering 3BHK/2BHK configurations with carpet areas ranging from 600 to 999 sq. ft across 11 towers with G+22 floors. The location logic is straightforward: the township sits within the Aerospace Park, just minutes away from prominent commercial establishments like Shell Technology Centre, Boeing and Rolls Royce offices, IT Parks, putting Brigade's product directly against the employment base that is expected to sustain housing demand in this micro-market over the next decade.
Brigade has since extended its Gummanahalli presence into plotted development with Brigade Savannah. Brigade Savannah is a plotted project by Brigade Group located in Devanahalli Extension, Gummanahalli, spread across 21 acres with 450 residential plots, positioned behind Mahadev Kodigehalli Lake, opposite Bagalur Main Road, close to KIADB Hardware Park. Plot sizes run from 1,200 sq. ft. to 3,000 sq. ft., with prices at prelaunch between Rs 84 lakhs and Rs 2.10 crores. This is not Brigade's first plotted bet on the wider corridor — Brigade Oasis is a ~70-acre, 987-plot Devanahalli plotted community already RERA-registered and selling, and Brigade Orchards is a ~135-acre integrated township in the same micro-market — which means a Gummanahalli plot buyer is entering a format the developer has already run through construction, registration and handover cycles rather than a first attempt.
Gummanahalli's pincode is 562149, and the locality sits in the northern part of the city, with nearby areas like Bagalur, Kattigenahalli, Kannuru, Chikkajala and Hunasamaranahalli. Two things make it relevant to Brigade's township and plotted strategy specifically. First, industrial anchoring: the emerging KIADB Aerospace Park is expected to boost employment opportunities for the locals in Gummanahalli, giving a built-in tenant and buyer pool for apartment stock. Second, transport is catching up with the housing that has already launched — the area benefits from connectivity through NH 44, Bellary Road, and the upcoming metro corridor, with the nearby Devanahalli Railway Station and Yelahanka Junction supplementing road access, while the nearest metro station is Doddajala Station, part of the ongoing Airport Metro Line. A planned ring road adds a further layer: the planned Satellite Town Ring Road is expected to enhance connectivity in Gummanahalli significantly. For a buyer weighing Brigade El Dorado's apartments against Brigade Savannah's plots, the airport itself remains the fixed reference point — the corridor is about 10.4 km (15 minutes) from Kempegowda International Airport.
Published transaction data frames Gummanahalli as a mid-segment market rather than a premium one, which is consistent with Brigade's positioning of El Dorado as an affordable-to-mid apartment township alongside the higher-ticket Savannah plots. Flat prices in Gummanahalli are in the range of Rs 8,900-12,250 per square foot, with an average flat rate of ₹10,100 per sq ft. Longer-term data points to appreciation for specific configurations: 2 BHK prices have appreciated by 73.78% over the past three years, aided by well-connected access to Bangalore International Airport. This combination — sub-₹10,000/sq ft entry pricing with multi-year appreciation tied directly to airport and industrial-park growth — is the underlying reason Brigade continues to add phases here rather than treating Gummanahalli as a one-off launch.
A buyer evaluating Brigade Group in Gummanahalli today is effectively choosing between two formats from the same developer inside one micro-market: a large, phase-wise apartment township (El Dorado, with its Aurum, Cobalt, Beryl and Luminaire towers) built around Aerospace Park employment, and a newer, smaller gated plotted community (Savannah) aimed at buyers who want land ownership on the same airport corridor. Both sit inside a developer track record of 280+ completed projects and over 86 million sq ft of developed space and a governance structure — public listing, audited disclosures — that reduces the single biggest risk North Bangalore's fast-growing but still-developing localities carry: project stalling.