Express Avenue is a shopping mall in Chennai promoted by Express Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Indian Express Limited Group. It is home to the largest gaming arcade in South India. Built at a cost of 7,500 million(US$120 million), the 1,750,000-square-foot (163,000 m2) mall has 10 anchor tenants and 150 vanilla tenants.The mall is built on a 10-acre site inside the historic Indian Express Estate and has four floors of retail space, a building for corporate offices and a hotel. Out of 10 acres, about 3.57 acres have been taken up by buildings. The rest have been used for car parking, drive-ways and landscaping. In all, the mall has 26 lifts, 34 escalators and 4 travelators.Express Avenue hosts a mixture of shopping, business, and leisure. The mall is bounded by Whites Road, Woods Road, and Patullos Road and has a three-level basement parking space for over 1,500 cars and a parking area for bikes. It was inaugurated on 26 May 2010.The mall has a total development of 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2) including 900,000 sq ft of retail space, 100,000 sq. ft of hotel, 200,000 sq. ft of office space, 400,000 sq ft of parking space.