Gold Souk Grandé is a shopping mall, in the city of

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. The project was unveiled in April 2009 by actress

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. It is located next to Crescent Engineering College in Chennai and will be operational by first quarter of 2015. This is creating a record for itself by becoming the longest project in gestation period and construction period. Spread in the total built up area of , the mall will have five floors with gross leasable (retail) area of dedicated to hypermarket, anchors, vanilla brands, multiplex, food court, QSR and Ramada Hotel.

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was operating on the ground floor but has been replaced by

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pizza. The mall is part of the Gold Souk chain of malls located throughout India and is a brand of Gurgaon-based retail and property developer, Aerens Gold Souk Group. The Gold Souk Grande Chennai is Arena Group's first venture in Tamil Nadu.

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