Lodha traces its origins to 1980, when Mangal Prabhat Lodha began building homes in Mumbai's suburbs; the company has since grown into Lodha Developers, listed on the NSE and BSE, and is known in central Mumbai for towers such as Lodha Altamount, Lodha World Towers, Lodha Bellissimo, Trump Tower Mumbai and Lodha Park. Away from that vertical, high-rise idiom, the group's most ambitious single project is horizontal: Palava City, a planned township at Dombivli East in Thane district. Developed by the Lodha Group, it spans approximately 5,000 acres and is strategically located between Thane, Navi Mumbai, and Kalyan, and was established in 2009. By 2023 it had grown to house a resident population of roughly 200,000, making it one of the few places in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region where a single developer has built an entire functioning city rather than a single gated project.
Lodha Hanging Gardens sits on Kalyan Shil Road in the Manpada pocket of Palava, in what the project literature frames as a residential answer to the iconic Hanging Gardens of Malabar Hill reimagined as a stacked, garden-terraced residence. The development is built as 4 towers of 30 storey, offering exclusive 3BED, 4BED Homes with private lift and exclusive balconies, with carpet areas starting from 1577-1837 sq.ft. Amenities at the project include a grand clubhouse, rooftop parks, swimming pool, sports facilities (cricket, basketball, football), gymnasium, jogging track, indoor games, and children's play area, and it sits, as the project's own listing puts it, within Palava City, Dombivli East, a high-end smart township with great lifestyle amenities and convenient connectivity to Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, and Thane.
The project's pricing places it at the premium end of its own township. Market trackers put the Lodha Hanging Garden Palava avg. price at ₹ 15.3 K/Sq.Ft. compared to Dombivli East at ₹ 9.9 k/Sq.Ft. — a gap that reflects the larger-format 3 and 4 BHK configuration, private-lift layouts, and the garden-terrace design language, set against a locality where most stock is smaller-format and mid-income.
The value of a Lodha address inside Palava is inseparable from what Lodha itself has already delivered on the same land. The township's own civic layer includes five international schools, a planned 500-bed hospital, the Palava Sports Complex with an Olympic-sized pool, shopping malls like Lodha Xperia, and over 31,000 trees across vast green spaces, all organised around a walkability principle the developer calls its 5-minute access to retail, 10 minutes to schools and parks, and 15 minutes to commercial hubs. For a resident buying into Hanging Gardens, this means the amenity layer isn't a separate promise for a single building — it is a township already substantially operational around it.
| Landmark | Approx. distance/time from Palava |
|---|---|
| Kalyan-Shil Road | 5 minutes away |
| Dombivli Railway Station | 10 minutes away |
| Thane Majiwada | 15 to 20 minutes drive |
| Navi Mumbai | 30 to 40 minutes |
| Kalyan Junction | within 30 mins |
Beyond current road and rail access, the corridor carries a specific set of near-term catalysts. Dombivli East has three major infrastructure projects: Metro Line 12 (Kalyan-Taloja), Airoli-Dombivli Tunnel Road, and KDMC's Kalyan-Shilphata Road widening, each expected to improve access between Palava and the wider Thane-Navi Mumbai job corridor once completed.
Set against the wider Dombivli East market, where average property rates per square feet stood around Rs 9700 per sq ft with flat rates changing by 1.6% in the last 1 year, 11.5% in the last 3 years, and 18.3% in the last 5 years, the Palava micro-market has run ahead of the broader locality. Analysts tracking the corridor note that while Dombivli East has averaged 18–22% per annum over the last 5 years, Palava City specifically has delivered 25–30% CAGR for early buyers — a premium attributed to the scale of Lodha's own infrastructure spend inside the township and its position on the coming metro and tunnel-road pipeline. New RERA-registered supply across Dombivli East now spans ₹7,500–15,300/sqft, with Lodha's larger-format Palava products, including Hanging Gardens, anchoring the upper end of that band.
