Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram is readying to turn up as country?s biggest IT workspace, investing about Rs 180 crore. Adjacent to this 3-million sqft building in the SEZ area, the sate-run park is also throwing open 52 acres open for leasing out to private developers.
About 18,000 IT professionals can be accommodated at one go in the proposed world-class building, says Mervin Alexander, new CEO of Technopark. ??It would have a futuristic design, in keeping with green concepts ,?? he adds.
Chief minister VS Achuthanandan will lay the foundation stone in September. The first phase is slated to be ready in July 2011.
M Vasudevan, senior manager (business development) told FE that the state to tie up with banks to part-finance the project. ??The development project will be part-loans and partly drawn from internal accruals of Technopark,?? he said.
The work on a 110 KV substation has been completed to share power supply among the proposed IT building and the adjacent campuses of Infosys and UST Global. Other facilities like treatment and disposal of solid waste and wide approach road from the highway are underway.