Embassy Group's presence in Vadodara is anchored at Akota, at the junction of Akota Road and Jetalpur Road, where the group has placed One Park, a mixed-use commercial development. One Park is a landmark commercial development strategically located at the junction of Akota Road and Jetalpur Road, right in the heart of Vadodara's Central Business District. For a developer whose name in western India is still being established outside its listed portfolio cities, choosing Akota over a peripheral growth corridor signals an intent to occupy the city's established commercial core rather than wait for a new one to form.
Embassy Group traces its origins to Bengaluru, where the company embarked on its journey in 1993 under the leadership of Jitu Virwani, and has since developed over 54 million square feet of commercial, residential, retail, hospitality, services, educational, and industrial warehouse spaces. Beyond direct development, Embassy also operates a real estate investment trust called Embassy Office Parks REIT, which is the first listed REIT in India and Asia's largest office REIT by area. That institutional-grade office-park pedigree, built over three decades in Bengaluru's Manyata and other business parks, is the credential the group brings when it puts its name on a commercial address in a city like Vadodara.
The residential and commercial development arm operating outside the REIT is Embassy Developments Limited, listed on the exchanges. With a strategic focus on Bengaluru, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, and the National Capital Region, the company also has a presence in Chennai, Jodhpur, Vadodara, Vizag, and Indore. Vadodara sits alongside Jodhpur as one of the smaller-city footholds in an otherwise metro-heavy portfolio, which is notable given how selective the group has historically been about which non-metro markets it enters.
One Park is designed as a commercial and retail address rather than a housing project. The development features an iconic 10-storey structure with a striking architectural design, G+2 levels dedicated to retail, flexible office spaces starting from 550 sq. ft., and a thoughtfully planned layout that balances functionality with contemporary aesthetics. It features a glass façade, triple-height lobby, and flexible office spaces. The format mirrors what Embassy has done at scale in Bengaluru's business parks: a single address that houses offices and retail together rather than treating them as separate uses, giving occupiers and investors exposure to footfall from both.
Designed as a visionary, state-of-the-art mixed-use complex, it combines premium office spaces with modern retail, and connectivity is one of its strongest advantages. Vadodara has its own domestic and international airport roughly 9 kilometres from Akota, and Vadodara Junction, one of the busiest railway stations in the country, sits about 3 kilometres away, giving occupiers of One Park practical same-day reach to both air and rail travel without leaving the city's core.
Akota is not a fringe locality being marketed on future promise; it is one of Vadodara's older, denser, mixed-use neighbourhoods. Akota is just 3km from Vadodara Junction Railway Station, connects to Vadodara International Airport at about 9km, offers apartments, independent houses and plots, and property prices here fall in the mid-income budget segment. The locality also carries institutional weight of its own: it offers access to OHM and Temenos business parks at 2-4km, the BIDC Gorwa Industrial Estate is located about 5 km away, it houses the Municipal Corporation Hall and EPF Organisation, and Maharaja Sayajirao University is situated within Akota. That combination of a university, established offices, and municipal administration is exactly the daytime population base a commercial and retail address like One Park is built to serve.
Social infrastructure around Akota is dense rather than aspirational. The area has a green belt, premium hotels and retail hubs forming its social infrastructure, with Delhi Public School and Billabong Gujarat Public School situated here, and Akota Garden and Inorbit Mall among the area's known shopping spots. For a developer positioning a commercial building, this existing catchment of schools, a university, business parks, and retail anchors matters more than any single new road or metro line, because it is what already draws people to the address every day.
Akota is consistently named among Vadodara's costlier residential pockets rather than an emerging or unproven one. Alkapuri, Akota, Vasna Road, Manjalpur, and Laxmipura are among the more expensive localities in Vadodara. Flat rates in the locality average in the range of roughly Rs 4,000 to Rs 4,650 per square foot, with 2 BHK flats available in the range of ₹29.9 lakh to ₹49.1 lakh and 3 BHK flats between ₹50.3 lakh and ₹91 lakh. This mid-to-upper positioning within the city, rather than a discount-periphery price point, is consistent with the kind of address a national-scale developer like Embassy typically selects for a flagship commercial building.
For anyone evaluating office or retail space in Vadodara, One Park offers a rare combination in this city: a Bengaluru-origin developer with REIT-scale operating discipline, placed inside an established CBD junction rather than an unproven suburb. Embassy's core reputation was built on integrated business parks that combined scale with amenity-led design, and One Park brings a scaled-down version of that same logic, office plus retail in one address, to a market where such formats are still relatively uncommon.