The group operates airports in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram.
Adani group is stepping up efforts to strengthen its team for its retail and hospitality foray.
Adani Realty, the real estate arm of Adani Group, has advertised jobs in the retail and F&B (food and beverages) segment on networking platforms such as LinkedIn.
The company recently also hired Rajendra Kalkar, who was president – malls and director at Phoenix Mills, as the business head of its malls and hospitality division.
As part of its retail and hospitality foray, the group is working on city-side developments near or within airports, wherein it will build shopping centres, multiplex, food courts, spa and so on, sources said.
The group will develop over 160 acres at Mumbai airport, 100 acres in Lucknow, 200 acres in Navi Mumbai, 17 acres in Jaipur and 2 acres in Thiruvananthapuram, reports said earlier.
“They want to develop the real estate near airports and get air passengers to the malls, hotels and multiplexes,” said an industry executive. Besides the group “could also build a mall in Dharavi”, according to the source quoted earlier.
An email sent to Adani Group did not elicit any response.
Adani Realty is redeveloping Dharavi — which houses the largest slum in Asia — in Mumbai. The project is expected to be a mixed use development, including residential condominiums, shopping complexes and office buildings.
Adani Group will invest about `60,000 crore to expand the seven existing airports in its portfolio over the next five to 10 years, Karan Adani, MD of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, had said recently. The group operates airports in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram.
In its over 12 years of operations, Adani Realty has developed 22.5 million sq ft of properties and is developing 35.1 million sq ft of properties. It is building retail and restaurants in Gurugram in Haryana.