Amenities
- Description
- COVID-19 Safety
- Occupants
- Security
- Utilities
- Parking
- Cafeteria
- Municipal Permission
- Title
Description
Paragon Centre is a well-maintained, cosy complex with a neighbourly atmosphere. The five buildings in the complex (3 buildings of Ground + 4 floors, one of Ground + 3 floors and one of Ground + 1 floor) have a common, central, well-foliaged driveway. All the buildings have multiple lifts.
COVID-19 Safety
- Minimised foot traffic: The Paragon compound is closed to the general public. Offices are spread across five buildings, none of which house any retail businesses. This results in minimised foot traffic which facilitates social distancing.
- Low-rise: Offices in Paragon’s low-rise buildings are easily accessible via well-ventilated staircases (as opposed to high-rise offices only accessible using enclosed lifts, which to meet government social-distancing directives often require wholly-unworkable single-occupancy). Some of our offices have exclusive entrances (i.e. avoiding even the use of a shared staircase).
- Ventilation: Offices in Paragon feature high ceilings and openable windows, enabling better ventilation (in contrast to glass-clad buildings with sealed windows).
- Safeguards: In mid-March 2020 (well before COVID started taking off in the city) Paragon implemented safeguards including infrared temperature checks, hands-free sanitiser dispensers, scheduled cleaning of surfaces and mandatory mask use.
- Medium-sized floorplates at Paragon (3,000-16,000 sq ft per floor) comfortably accommodate office layouts enabling safe distancing. Companies’ preferences are shifting away from larger floorplates towards medium-sized ones; being spread over separate floors allows operations to continue in other floors / buildings even if (despite the above precautions) there is a COVID event in one floor / building.
Occupants
The following organisations have their offices in Paragon Centre:
| Forbes-2000 global metals conglomerate, world’s largest aluminium rolling & recycling company | |
| World’s 2nd-largest advertising group, Forbes-1000 | |
| Advertising agency | |
| Advertising agency | |
| Swiss access & security solutions multinational in top 3 in their industry | |
| Newspaper publisher | |
| Vehicle-finance arm of world’s largest tractor manufacturer, a Forbes-2000 company | |
| Algorithmic arbitrage trading firm | |
| India’s largest network cabling integrator | |
| Financial services company | |
| Reputable Chartered Accounting firm | |
| NGO founded by the property owners, which runs a teacher-education centre and 7 English-medium schools for 3,700+ underprivileged children |
Security
The buildings are solidly constructed to industrial-loading specifications; they all comfortably pass regularly-conducted structural-safety audits and lab tests. The premises are monitored by CCTV, have high, secure walls, and two gates manned by Paragon Centre’s own trained security staff of long, steady service.
The security staff are trained for emergency firefighting. Each floor in every building is equipped with a regularly-tested fire-hydrant system, gravity-fed by a dedicated 110-kilolitre water tank (i.e. even in the event of a power outage, there is sufficient water pressure for water jets to reach the roof of every building from hydrants in multiple other buildings). Every floor has multiple fire exits, including passages / bridges to other buildings. The driveway is always kept clear for swift emergency firetruck access from P.B. Marg (a main thoroughfare). All floors are free of dangerous glass facades and are accessible using standard firetruck ladders.
Even when many areas of Mumbai flood (including when the city had its highest-ever rainfall of 99cm+ during a 24-hour period on 26 July 2005), the floodwaters stay clear of all our buildings.
Utilities
There is ample water and power supply to all the buildings, with an exclusive BEST sub-station in the premises and large-capacity water-storage tanks. Fibre-optic cables of all the leading telecommunications companies have been laid externally up to the gate of the premises and internally. The premises have excellent mobile reception.
Parking
Ample covered car-parking capacity has been enhanced with the installation of a Klaus (German), automated, 2-tier car-parking system.
Cafeteria
Freshly-prepared food and refreshments are available at reasonable prices to enjoy in the cafeteria or delivered to your office.
Municipal Permission
We have Municipal permission for office activity in all our buildings so you can enjoy peaceful occupation- free from risk of eviction, business disruption, legal action and fines. This is not the case for buildings elsewhere in Mumbai classed as “industrial” or “info tech parks” that are licensed as offices.
Title
The land has been with the current owners for over 75 years; they have a clear Certificate of Title for the land and all the buildings.
