Of late, Agra has been witnessing a major change in its landscape, with dozens of multi-storied shopping malls and complexes coming up all over the town in the past one year.
This indicates a possible change in the shopping behaviour of the fast-growing urban population. The city was recently declared the 27th metropolitan city of the country.
Market analysts, however, believe that as most of the malls are coming up at a distance of 4-5 km outside the main township area, they could not experience much foot traffic, unless a major part of the citys population decided to move into the residential colonies being developed in the vicinity of these malls.
Sensing the need among the builders for prime land inside the city and the inability of the Agra Development Authority to provide this land, the Agra Cantonment Board, which holds almost 30 per cent of the total land available in Agra, with most of the land lying largely underutilised in the form of disused bunglows and open grounds located deep within the posh areas of the city, has decided to lease out this open land to builders who are interested in setting up malls or complexes.
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