Amazon India relocating HQ

Amazon India is moving its corporate headquarters from its longtime base in the northwest part of Bengaluru to close to the city's airport as part of the e-commerce and cloud computing giant's cost-cutting exercise, a development that has disturbed the idyllic setting of the bohemian residential community.

- Varun Sood

Significantly, Amazon India's plan to move out of the World Trade Centre, where it occupies nearly half a million square feet of office space across eighteen of the thirty-floor building owned by Brigade Enterprises Ltd, raises questions about how the publicly-traded real estate developer would find a new tenant and on the rental income of adjoining flats. According to two executives, Amazon's new office in Sattva, a 15-minute drive from the airport, may cost less than a third of the nearly ₹250 per sq. ft. of rent it currently pays. The relocation is expected