Oasis opens up in Bengaluru - its special for me!
January 30, 2008 – 11:22 pm
The OASIS shopping center opened to public today the 30th of January 2008 in Koramangala. This perhaps kind of completes Koramangala into a fully transformed floating population hub as compared to the wild jungle it was exactly in 1983 when we first settled down here. Since 25 years, what a metamorphisis it has been! From a layout which had only one bus plying towards the city bus stand every three hours once to now being called the center of the city, its been quite a journey. So much so that the city’c center of gravity now has become Koramangala. Starting with cool parks, mundane post offices, one big school, missing bus services and being constantly harassed by small time RTO policemen in yesteryears, the locality has now seen a great transformation and amalgamation of different services including IT companies, ITES companies, call centers, petty shops, road side push cart shops, hundreds of Darshini’s, atleast two dozen good hotels, Pizza corners, hideouts, huts and what not, dhabas, multi cuisine hangouts, multiple petrol pumps, umpteen banks, arcades and shopping avenues, one 400 crore mall called the FORUM with multiple cinema screens, to tens of thousands of vehicles screaming at the top of your heads day in and out to hundreds of flights taking off on your roof everyday to spiralling rentals around the area - Koramangala has truly seen it all.
The Salarpuria owned OASIS mainly consists of the SPAR hypermarket (a full fledged shopping market), the LifeStyle store for all kinds of clothing accessories and POLYNATION - a one of a kind food court. Besides these there are software companies like NDS who also are put up there. And this building can accomodate many cars at its car parking facility at a time. Am I feeling lucky to reside here? Well until now no, but with the airport shifting out of here to Devanahalli, perhaps going forward in time, definitely yes! Thank you dad - I Owe it all to you!
So what are you waiting for? Visit the OASIS today !!
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7 Responses to “Oasis opens up in Bengaluru - its special for me!”
Hi,
I have been out of Bangalore for a while now. When I last passed by this under-construction building about 3 months ago, there were 15 nicely growing young trees in front of this building. In your photos, I can’t spot even now. Like I suspected, the builders have probably done away with all of them. Can you confirm if you have seen any young trees in front of this building?
THanks,
Gopal.
By Gopal S on Feb 1, 2008
gopal, i think i did see a couple of trees (small ones) but i there is a good possiblity the rest have been axed.
By srik on Feb 1, 2008
What a disaster, makes me want to curse the building to burn down to ashes
By Gopal S on Feb 1, 2008
You bet Gopal. Also what a waste of power [gaudy lights], such loud jarring music[some publicity gimmick] and ofcourse the shoppers adding to the traffic chaos on ring road, this huge monster of a mall is absolutely unecccessary.
Also a few nice flowering trees [pink flowers] at the entrance have their base completely cemented ! They are sure to die soon ‘coz of the noise, gaudy lighting & no water.
The builders - again some bunch of insensitive, ignorant, greedy morons !
By shamala on Feb 1, 2008
The trees are very much there. When I visit the place, I shall make it a point to meet the Estate manager and request him to take special care of the trees, particularly the ones that just more than saplings
By Muralidhar Rao on Feb 2, 2008
These buildings and businessmen lacking sense are srcewing Bangalore. And then the corrupt BBMP and BDA officials who are permitting all these are equally responsible. Wonder what these companies have to show under Corporate Governance in their Annual Reports
By Arun on Feb 2, 2008