Brigade Group's presence in Perungudi is not a single apartment block dropped into an IT suburb — it is a 16-acre campus the developer built from the ground up in partnership with Singapore's sovereign fund GIC. In 2016, Brigade Group and GIC jointly acquired a 6.5-hectare (16-acre) land parcel at Perungudi, purchased from Kansai Nerolac Paints, through a special purpose vehicle called Perungudi Real Estates. The foundation stone was laid on 9 June 2017 and the centre became officially functional in September 2021. That single land parcel is now the site of both World Trade Center Chennai and the residential towers marketed as Brigade Residences at WTC, including Brigade Nebula.
The commercial core of the campus, World Trade Center Chennai, is itself a marker of Brigade's institutional standing in this stretch of OMR. WTC Chennai comprises Tower 1 and Tower 2, both featuring 3B+G+27F+T, with a total built-up area of 1.8 million sq. ft across the two towers. Boasting Grade A++ specifications and LEED Platinum certification, WTC Chennai emphasizes functionality. It is home to global firms including Amazon and Hapag-Lloyd, and has become the defining address on Chennai's IT corridor. Tower A of the WTC complex is the tallest commercial establishment in the city. Brigade holds the World Trade Centers Association licence for this campus alongside its WTC properties in Bengaluru and Kochi, part of what makes the WTC brand one of the group's most distinctive institutional asset classes in South India.
Brigade Residences at WTC sits on the same 5-acre parcel behind the office towers, positioned on OMR (Old Mahabalipuram Road) in Perungudi, situated conveniently just before the Perungudi Toll Plaza. For the architecture, Brigade collaborated with HoK, New York — internationally renowned in design, architecture, engineering and planning. The first phase, sold as Astra and Zenith, delivered a wonderfully crafted 26-storeyed twin-tower residential development featuring 298 plush homes, sea-facing units ranging from 1,793 sq. ft. to 1,935 sq. ft., with every residence fully air-conditioned with engineered marble and wooden floors. The enclave also folds in a hospitality component: the project offers spacious apartments with luxurious features, including 80 Marriott Executive apartments in an exclusive tower. This mix of residences, Grade A++ offices and branded serviced apartments on one campus is what distinguishes Brigade's Perungudi footprint from a standalone housing project — a buyer here is effectively purchasing into an integrated business-and-living district that Brigade itself built and continues to operate.
Brigade Nebula is Phase 2 of the same Residences at WTC development, positioned for a different buyer profile than the sea-facing Astra and Zenith towers. The project features the signature Nebula tower, which rises to B+G+13 floors, while Astra and Zenith (Phase 1) rise to 2B+G+26 floors. Nebula is built around compact, boutique formats — Brigade Residences (Phase 2: Nebula) offers 1 & 2 BHK apartments with areas of 984 sq. ft. to 1,465 sq. ft., with possession status under construction, targeted for March 2026. Amenities are concentrated at the top of the tower: Nebula features indoor and outdoor amenities including a rooftop swimming pool, media room, banquet hall, a cricket pitch, and additional lifestyle conveniences. On pricing, the price of 1 & 2 BHK apartments at Brigade Residences, WTC Nebula starts from ₹1.70 Crore onwards. Because Nebula shares its address with the WTC office towers, residents describe stepping out of the lift into the workplace itself — a point of practical value that Brigade's marketing and the campus's own layout both reflect.
Perungudi's transformation from a quiet OMR village into one of Chennai's densest employment nodes is the backdrop against which Brigade placed its Chennai flagship. What was once a quaint village, Perungudi, has metamorphosised over the years into a thriving IT hub due to its strategic location in the IT corridor of OMR. Beyond Brigade's own WTC campus, the immediate neighbourhood carries some of the city's best-known tech addresses — being located in OMR, it provides access to the major IT Parks like TCS, Cognizant, HCL, Accenture, Wipro and more, appealing to more working professionals. RMZ Millenia and SP Infocity's Global Info City sit within walking distance of the Brigade campus, reinforcing daily rental and resale demand from the professionals employed there.
Connectivity was engineered around this employment base long before Brigade arrived, and continues to improve. Chennai Metro Phase-2 extends rapid transit along the OMR axis, with stations such as Perungudi planned for the elevated stretch. Perungudi Railway Station is reachable within 8 minutes of the WTC campus on the existing MRTS line, while road access runs along Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), positioned before the first toll plaza, which makes it easy to travel to the city's main tech parks and high-end residential neighborhoods like Adyar and Besant Nagar. Chennai International Airport is roughly 45 to 55 minutes by road, depending on traffic, from the WTC address.
Perungudi's residential pricing sits at the premium end of the OMR corridor, a reflection of exactly the office density Brigade's own campus contributes to. Average property rates per square feet in Perungudi, Chennai for flats stood around Rs 11,050 per sq ft, compared with a broader OMR corridor average closer to Rs 7,250 per sq ft. Appreciation has been steady rather than speculative: flat rates in Perungudi, Chennai changed by 11.1% in the last 1 year, 30.0% in the last 3 years, and 53.5% in the last 5 years. On the social infrastructure side, residents of the WTC campus are within reach of The American International School, The Indian Public School, and Gateway International, with Apollo Speciality Hospital and Dr. Kamakshi Memorial Hospital both offering high-quality medical care within a 15-minute drive, alongside weekend options at Phoenix Marketcity (5 km) or Neelangarai Beach (3.2 km).
None of this is a first Chennai venture for Brigade. Brigade Enterprises was established in 1986 and has completed over 250 buildings aggregating to over 70 million sq. ft. of developed space across Bengaluru, Mysuru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Kochi. 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% increase year-on-year. Within Chennai South alone, Brigade's portfolio extends past Perungudi to projects such as Brigade Altius, Brigade Morgan Heights and Brigade Stellaris. That combination — a listed developer with a four-decade track record, choosing to co-invest with a sovereign fund in its own commercial-cum-residential campus on OMR — is the core reason the Perungudi address carries more institutional weight than a typical single-tower launch in the same corridor.
