On 15 January 2008, the largest mall in Eastern India - South City Mall - was inaugurated in Kolkata

Spread over one million sq.ft, the mall includes 134 retail outlets. The mall will have six anchor stores - Shoppers Stop over 83,000 sq.ft, Pantaloons over 71,000 sq.ft, Fame Cinemas - Kolkata's first six-screen multiplex at 60,000 sq.ft, Starmark with a product mix offering books, music toys and gifts over 20,000 sq.ft, Timezone, an entertainment area for children, spread over 14,000 sq.ft, and Spencer's Hypermarket, the largest in the country spread over 72,000 sq.ft.

Of the 35,000 types of food and daily consumption items in the hypermarket, 10 percent will be imported stuff, including 40 categories of cheese, 300 varieties of wine and a large range of cigars. There will be a special section for diet and sugar-free products, a large range of breakfast cereals and organic food and a huge spread of fish and meat. The speciality food corner will stock all ingredients required to prepare Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Italian, Gujarati, South Indian or American dishes.

The total project value of the mall is estimated to be over Rs.650 crore and the proposed mall is part of the 31.14 acre South City having residential towers, a school and a state-of-the-art club.

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