Perungudi is where Brigade Group built its most visible Chennai landmark. In 2016, Brigade Enterprises and Singapore's sovereign fund GIC jointly acquired a 16-acre parcel here, previously held by Kansai Nerolac Paints, through a special purpose vehicle called Perungudi Real Estates, with JLL facilitating the transaction. That land became World Trade Center Chennai, a five-tower campus with two office towers, a hotel tower and two residential towers, carrying an investment of more than ₹1,000 crore. The foundation stone was laid in June 2017 and the complex became officially functional in September 2021.
Tower A of WTC Chennai, at 28 storeys, is the tallest commercial structure in the city, and the campus offers over 1.8 million sq ft of office space across its two towers, alongside a 350-metre frontage on Old Mahabalipuram Road. The towers carry IGBC LEED Platinum and USGBC LEED Gold certification, and the complex is a member of the World Trade Centers Association, a licence Brigade also holds for its WTC developments in Bengaluru and Kochi. Once fully leased, the Chennai campus is designed to house between 20,000 and 25,000 employees, and has already drawn tenants such as Kissflow and Amazon, whose Chennai office here is among its largest in India.
Attached to the commercial towers, Brigade Residences comprises 298 units across 27-storey (G+26) twin towers on roughly 5 acres, built in the 3 BHK configuration, plus a separate tower of 80 Marriott-branded executive residences. The homes come with amenities that include a gym, swimming pool, yoga spaces, a cricket pitch, a tennis court, indoor games rooms, and children's play areas, all positioned within the same gated campus as the WTC office towers and facing the sea. It is one of only a handful of Chennai addresses where a homeowner's building and their employer's office tower share the same masterplan.
Brigade Group has taken its Perungudi presence a step further with a nine-acre parcel leased on a 55-year term from the YMCA, adjacent to the OMR corridor, earmarked for a Grade-A office complex aimed at IT, startup and fintech occupiers, together with a JW Marriott-branded hotel. This sits within a wider six-hotel agreement Brigade Hotel Ventures Limited signed with Marriott International, spanning the JW Marriott brand, The Ritz-Carlton, Courtyard by Marriott, Fairfield by Marriott and Marriott Hotels & Resorts across Chennai, Bengaluru, Kerala and Thiruvananthapuram, adding roughly 940 rooms to Brigade's hospitality book.
For the Perungudi property specifically, JW Marriott Chennai OMR is anticipated to open in 2030 with around 250 guest rooms and suites, positioned on Old Mahabalipuram Road in what Marriott's own release describes as Chennai's IT corridor, roughly a 45-minute drive and within 13 km of Chennai International Airport. Design plans include the brand's signature Spa by JW, a swimming pool, a fitness centre, a JW Garden, five distinct dining concepts, and close to 1,400 square metres of meeting and event space. The project extends a relationship Brigade first opened with Marriott through Holiday Inn Chennai OMR, launched on the same corridor in April 2017 as the group's first Chennai hospitality venture.
Perungudi sits on Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), within roughly 3 km of the Tharamani IT hub and close to Thoraipakkam and Sholinganallur, giving the locality a dense base of established and upcoming tech-park tenants. The Taramani Link Road connects it onward to Adyar, Velachery and the East Coast Road, and the area has its own MRTS and Perungudi railway stations feeding the city's suburban rail network. A dedicated Purple Line station under the ongoing Chennai Metro Phase 2 expansion is planned for the corridor, adding a second rail option to a locality that already relies on MTC bus routes for airport and city access. Hospitals such as Apollo, SRM and Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital sit along the same stretch of OMR.
Residential pricing in Perungudi has moved from roughly ₹8,950 to ₹14,050 per sq ft, with an average of around ₹11,050 per sq ft, having appreciated about 11% over the past year and over 53% across five years. This is the pricing band into which Brigade Residences, and the residential component that will eventually sit alongside JW Marriott Chennai OMR, are positioned, backed by the demand pull of an IT workforce that also drives rental interest in the locality.
Brigade Enterprises was founded in 1986 by M.R. Jaishankar and has since completed 250-plus buildings covering more than 70 million sq ft across Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Chikmagalur, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kochi and GIFT City, Gujarat. The company has been listed on the BSE and NSE since 2007, and in 2024 it stated an intention to invest around ₹8,000 crore in Chennai by 2030, treating the city as what it has called a second home market. Its hospitality arm, Brigade Hotel Ventures Limited, completed its own BSE/NSE listing in July 2025, operating nine hotels with roughly 1,604 keys across Bengaluru, Chennai, Kochi, Mysuru and GIFT City under brands including Marriott, Accor and InterContinental Hotels Group, ahead of the JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Courtyard and Fairfield properties now in its pipeline.
Beyond Perungudi, Brigade's active Chennai pipeline includes Brigade Morgan Heights along the Sholinganallur–Medavakkam road, a residential launch valued at roughly ₹2,100 crore, alongside projects such as Brigade Altius, Brigade Stellaris and Brigade Nebula on OMR. Brigade Xanadu was the group's first residential launch in the city, and the group's broader hospitality footprint in Chennai already includes Holiday Inn Chennai OMR and the Courtyard by Marriott at World Trade Center Chennai.
