Brigade Group, founded in 1986 by M.R. Jaishankar, is listed on the NSE and BSE and has completed over 250 buildings amounting to over 76 million square feet of developed space across a diverse real estate portfolio. The group operates in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysuru, Kochi, Trivandrum, and GIFT City with developments across the residential, office, retail, hospitality, and education sectors. In Chennai, its most visible commitment sits precisely at the seam between Tharamani and neighbouring Perungudi, on Old Mahabalipuram Road, an address the group has returned to repeatedly over more than a decade.
The group's flagship in this corridor is World Trade Center Chennai, built in partnership with Singapore's sovereign fund GIC. Brigade Group and GIC jointly acquired a 6.5-hectare land parcel at Perungudi, purchased from Kansai Nerolac Paints, for ₹5,378.6 million, with construction of the World Trade Center and residential units entailing an investment of more than ₹10 billion. Operational since September 2021, the campus carries Grade A++ specifications and LEED Platinum certification, and is nestled strategically in the heart of the established IT hub on OMR pre-toll at Perungudi, with a development potential of 2.6 million square feet. It is home to global firms including Amazon and Hapag-Lloyd, and has become the defining address on Chennai's IT corridor.
Alongside the office towers, Brigade added a retail component, Brigade Vantage, and a residential layer within the same campus. Brigade Nebula, part of Brigade Residences at WTC, offers 1 and 2 BHK apartments in OMR, Perungudi, Chennai, starting at INR 1.70 Crore, while a companion residential block includes 80 Marriott Executive apartments in an exclusive tower. Together these place Brigade's office, retail, hospitality and residential offerings within walking distance of each other, directly on the Tharamani-OMR stretch.
In August 2025, Brigade Enterprises deepened its stake in this micro-market. The company signed a lease agreement for a 7-acre prime site in Chennai to develop a mixed-use development project, described by the group as sitting in the Tharamani-OMR belt, an area with a fast-growing infrastructure thrust that offers unmatched connectivity and development potential, triggered by the significant presence of large technology companies, educational institutions, retail spaces, and hospitals. The project will bring over 1 million sq. ft. of Grade A office space along with a 225-key 5-star deluxe hotel to the belt, reinforcing Brigade's read that this stretch of OMR functions as a single, connected business and hospitality district rather than a series of disconnected plots.
Tharamani carries the pincode 600113 and sits along Rajiv Gandhi Salai, with good road connectivity through State Highway 2 and the East Coast Road. It is also close to both Taramani and Tiruvanmiyur railway stations, while Little Mount Metro Station on the Blue Line is about 5 km away. The locality itself is one of the older IT addresses in the city: Taramani or Tharamani is a bustling IT hub in South Chennai that has gained fame for hosting Chennai's first IT parks, and today hosts Ascendas' International Tech Park, TIDEL Park, Tata Realty's Ramanujan IT City, DLF Downtown, and the IIT Madras Research Park, which is India's first university-based research park developed by IITM Madras, providing over 1.2 million sq.ft. of workspace for research and development. Chennai Metro's planned Phase 2 corridor adds a further layer: the Chennai Metro Phase 2 expansion includes stations planned along the OMR corridor, which will significantly improve transit connectivity to the WTC campus upon completion.
This density of established employers, research institutions, and improving transit is precisely the kind of setting Brigade has targeted with WTC Chennai and its newer OMR lease. Residential pricing in the immediate locality currently spans Rs. 5,600 to Rs. 14,814 per square foot for apartments, reflecting a mid-to-premium band shaped by the same employment base that anchors Brigade's commercial towers next door.
A buyer or occupier evaluating Brigade Group's presence around Tharamani is not looking at a single isolated project but at a cluster: an operating Grade A++ office and hotel campus at World Trade Center Chennai, a residential and serviced-apartment layer within the same address, a retail mall in Brigade Vantage, and a freshly signed 7-acre office-and-hospitality development a short distance away on the same belt. For occupiers, this means access to a hub for technology parks and commercial establishments, necessitating top-tier infrastructure that combines work, leisure, and accommodation seamlessly. For residential buyers, it means proximity to one of Chennai's oldest and most diversified employment corridors, backed by a developer with three decades of delivery history across South India's major cities.