When Smartworks announced it would license more than 815,000 sq. ft at the forthcoming Eastbridge campus in Vikhroli (West), Mumbai, it wasn’t just another large commercial lease, it was an unmistakable signal of how India’s office market is evolving.
A Campus at Scale
Developed by the Hiranandani Group’s commercial office arm, Regalia Office Parks, Eastbridge is being built on LBS Marg in one of Mumbai’s most connected corridors. It is slated for completion in Q4 2026 and boasts seamless connectivity via the Central Railway line, the Jogeshwari–Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR) linking to both Eastern and Western Express Highways, upcoming metro lines and a flyover to the Eastern Express Highway.
Smartworks’ move essentially makes Eastbridge the world’s largest managed office campus leased by a single operator. With this, Smartworks underlines its status as India’s category-leader in the managed campus model, with a footprint across multiple cities and a growing institutional presence.
Wellness, Sustainability, and Office Experience
What sets Eastbridge apart isn’t just size: the design and amenity philosophy is as ambitious as the square footage. Smartworks describes Eastbridge as a “people-first campus built for scale, sustainability and enterprise growth.” Features under the plan include an entry plaza, amphitheatre, “super-tree” greenscape, yoga and meditation zones, jogging tracks, bicycle parking, an on-site Miyawaki mini-forest and EV-charging infrastructure.
Importantly, the building is headed for certification under WELL Certified Core and pre-certified under IGBC Gold standards (Green Building and Health & Well-being), signalling that wellness and ESG aren’t afterthoughts, they’re baked into the blueprint.
What This Means for Mumbai’s East Corridor
For years, the commercial axis around Mumbai was dominated by Western sub-markets—Lower Parel, BKC, Powai. Eastbridge’s arrival along the Vikhroli–Thane corridor underscores a shift: large-format, high-quality office campuses are moving where connectivity meets land affordability and infrastructure tailwinds.
Managed campuses like Eastbridge offer enterprises a plug-and-play solution: long-block space, fully serviced infrastructure, tech-enabled operations, and amenities that reflect modern workforce expectations. In an era of hybrid work, ESG mandates and wellness-driven design, this is more than real estate, it’s workplace strategy.
A New Benchmark for Office Real Estate
This campus isn’t simply about occupancy, it’s about a qualitative upgrade for Indian offices. Smartworks CEO & Founder Neetish Sarda said, “Our alliance with the Niranjan Hiranandani Group for Eastbridge marks a major milestone in Smartworks’ journey. We continue to break our own records and set new benchmarks in the managed workspace segment.”
Similarly, Hiranandani founder Niranjan Hiranandani observed, “Our partnership with Smartworks for Eastbridge reflects a shared belief in the future of large, people-first campuses. Eastbridge is more than just a development; it symbolises how design, sustainability, and scale can come together to create truly global-standard workplaces.”
Challenges and What to Watch
Of course, such ambition comes with expectations. To deliver, Eastbridge will need the physical infrastructure, transit, parking, utilities to match the vision. Tenant uptake at scale, the quality of operations, and maintaining wellness-focused standards over time will define whether this becomes a true model. The question isn’t whether this campus can be built, it’s whether it can perform.
The Bigger Picture
What Eastbridge suggests is that Indian office real estate is shifting from being a commodity (“I’ll take X sq. ft in location Y at Z rate”) to being an experience (“I want a campus that supports wellness, flexibility, enterprise growth”). Managed campus models, amenity-rich design, certification for sustainability and health, and large-block leasing for enterprise clients, all these become central.
For occupiers, it means less time worrying about real-estate logistics and more time focusing on talent, culture, and productivity. For developers and landlords, it means moving beyond four walls and fit-outs into ecosystem building. And for the market, it means another step in the evolution of how India works, not just where it works.
