Embassy Group was established in Bengaluru in 1993 under founder and Chairman Jitu Virwani, who had entered property development in 1985. Unlike developers that expanded into Bengaluru from elsewhere, Embassy's earliest and most defining addresses sit in the city's central belt — Vasanth Nagar, Infantry Road, Domlur, Kodihalli and the stretch off Old Airport Road bordering the Karnataka Golf Association course. This is not incidental geography. It is the ground on which the group built its identity before it expanded to Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Coimbatore, Trivandrum, and overseas into Serbia and Malaysia.
Embassy Group commenced operations in 1993 under its founder and Chairman, Jitu Virwani, who entered the property development business in 1985 at the age of 19.
Two projects illustrate why the centre of the city matters so much to the Embassy story. Embassy Grove, a villament community spread across roughly 7 to 8 acres off Old Airport Road in Kodihalli, sits adjacent to the 18-hole Karnataka Golf Association course and is described by the group as located in the heart of Central Bengaluru. The development combines the scale of a villa with the convenience of an apartment across 106 duplex and triplex units, each with a private garden, sundeck and swimming pool, and the project has received its Occupancy Certificate. Nearby, on the Intermediate Ring Road side of Domlur and Challaghatta, sits Embassy GolfLinks Business Park — a roughly 65-acre, 4-to-4.5-million-square-foot office campus with 14 to 21 buildings bordering the same golf course, home to the city's first Hilton hotel and long-standing tenants including technology and financial-services occupiers. Together these two developments — one residential, one commercial — show how Embassy has treated the KGA-adjacent core of the city as a single, connected address rather than two separate projects.
Further into the central business district, on Infantry Road in Vasanth Nagar, Embassy has built and operated Grade-A office buildings such as Embassy Icon, and the group's residential brand The Embassy has long stood in the same neighbourhood. It is also in Vasanth Nagar that Embassy ONE brought the Four Seasons brand to Bengaluru for the first time, pairing a Four Seasons hotel with Four Seasons Private Residences and retail at Embassy One — a project the group describes as being in the heart of the city, a few kilometres from Bangalore Palace and MG Road.
Embassy's decision to concentrate early, flagship projects in Vasanth Nagar, Domlur, and the Old Airport Road–Kodihalli belt reflects what this part of Bengaluru has always offered: proximity to the original central business district on MG Road and Infantry Road, adjacency to the Karnataka Golf Association's 18-hole course, and closeness to Bengaluru's older commercial and diplomatic quarter, historically home to embassies and consulates — a naming cue the group itself carries. This is also the part of the city where corporate tenants such as Goldman Sachs and IBM cluster within walking distance of Embassy's own golf-course-facing business park, and where five-star hospitality brands — Hilton, Four Seasons, The Leela — sit within a few kilometres of one another.
For a buyer evaluating Embassy in this part of Bengaluru, the location argument is less about emerging infrastructure and more about scarcity. Central Bangalore commands the highest average price among the city's zones, reflecting the premium on established locations with mature infrastructure, and localities such as Vasanth Nagar have posted double-digit price appreciation over the past year on constrained supply. Central Bengaluru is a built-out, low-land-availability zone; there is limited scope for new large-format development, which makes existing Embassy addresses here — and any future land the group holds in this belt — genuinely scarce rather than merely marketed as such.
The Vasanth Nagar–Infantry Road pocket sits within a few kilometres of Cubbon Park, Bangalore Palace, and the MG Road–Brigade Road retail and hospitality corridor, and is served by Bengaluru's Cantonment and Majestic railway stations along with Namma Metro connectivity on the Purple Line. The Domlur–Kodihalli–Old Airport Road pocket, where Embassy Grove and Embassy GolfLinks sit, benefits from the Intermediate Ring Road, proximity to Indiranagar and Koramangala, and closeness to HAL and the Baiyappanahalli metro interchange — making it one of the few central Bengaluru micro-markets where a large employer campus, a five-star hotel, an 18-hole golf course and low-density luxury housing coexist within the same few hundred acres.
Embassy Group is one of India's most established and diversified real estate institutions, and with over 100 million square feet of commercial, residential, hospitality, services, and education spaces delivered and managed, its central Bengaluru projects sit within a much larger platform. The group's 2012 joint venture with Blackstone produced Embassy Office Parks REIT, and Embassy Group is headed by Jitu Virwani, Chairman and Managing Director. That institutional scale — the same platform behind Embassy Manyata Business Park in North Bengaluru and the Embassy Springs township near Devanahalli — is what backs the group's central Bengaluru addresses, giving buyers here access to a developer with a multi-decade record in the same city rather than a project built in isolation.
Buying into an Embassy Group address in Central Bengaluru means buying into a location the developer itself has treated as core territory for over three decades — not a periphery experiment. The combination of an established central business district, a private golf course as a permanent green buffer, five-star hospitality neighbours, and genuinely limited new land supply is specific to this pocket of the city, and it is the same combination Embassy has built around since its early years in Bengaluru.
