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Business conglomerate Shapoorji Pallonji's housing platform Joyville will invest around Rs 750 crore to develop a new housing project in Pune. Joyville Shapoorji Housing is a USD 200 million platform set up by Shapoorji Pallonji, ADB, IFC and Actis to develop housing projects. The company will develop nearly 1,350 housing units, including duplexes and penthouses, in this new 9-acre project with an estimated sales revenue of over Rs 1,000 crore. "We have acquired about 9-acre land near Hadapsar in Pune to develop a new project," Joyville Shapoorji Housing Managing Director Sriram Mahadevan told PTI. He said the total development potential of this project is around 13 lakh square feet. "In the first phase, we are launching two towers comprising 168 duplexes and penthouses. We did a survey that suggested that there is a great demand for this type of product as people want to upgrade their lives," Mahadevan said. Asked about the project cost, he said the total development cost will b
Till his appointment as the chairman to lead Tata Sons, not many knew of Cyrus Mistry, who was then associated only with his family business. A south Mumbai low-profile boy, 44-year-old Mistry family scion was already heading companies in the Shapoorji Pallonji Group when he was appointed to succeed Ratan Tata as the head of the over USD 100 billion, salt-to-software Tata group. According to reports, he was reluctant to take up the job but some persuasion, including by Ratan Tata himself, led him to accept the offer. After four years at the helm, he was replaced in a boardroom coup in October 2016, which saw Ratan Tata coming back to helm the group before the reigns were passed on to N Chandrasekhar. The might of his father Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry who was called as the 'Phantom of Bombay House' for the influence he wielded at the Tata Group headquarters, did not come in handy to help Mistry, who had begun on a wide-ranging drive to improve governance practices at the group. It ..