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Sujay Mehdudia
MEETING PLACE: Scene outside a coffee house in New Delhi on Sunday. Photo: Sandeep Saxena
NEW DELHI: The concept of coffee homes as a meeting place is fast losing its charm for the city's average citizen. It is now all set to undergo a major change if plans drawn up by Delhi Tourism are anything to go by. The new concept of designer coffee homes is aimed at retaining the coffee home nostalgia but at the same time re-establishing it as a `brand' using the built ambience and making it a multipurpose usable space. The first of five such outlets is scheduled to come up at Janakpuri in West Delhi where work is expected to start this year itself. The Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC) has already short-listed half a dozen consultants for the project and the process to obtain financial sanction for the project has been set in motion. According to the DTTDC Managing Director, Ramesh Negi, in a modern changing city it is essential that open spaces should have a purpose. They should offer delight, surprise, rest, enlightenment and amusement to a wide variety of users over the course of the day or week. The design intent of the new designer coffee homes would be to encourage a flexibility of opportunities for social interaction and activities and develop them as a social hub that would attract people of all age groups. The coffee home would be designed and developed into a plaza, an open space for public use that would resonate with the physical, social, cultural, visual and spiritual needs of people. The site at Janakpuri is located on Najafgarh Road at Dholi Pioa Chowk connecting two major urban nodes - the Janakpuri District Centre and the Delhi Metro Rail Station. Apart from having a designer coffee home, it would also have a speciality restaurant, take-away and home delivery counters, counters for branded coffee, music gallery, ATMs, telephone booths, flower shop, office space, cyber café, art gallery, nursery and various kinds of shops and commercial outlets. In addition, the new coffee home will also have an open amphitheatre, library and other such facilities. Mr. Negi said artwork in the central court of the artistic building would be the focal point of the plaza. He said unlike the other coffee homes run by DTTDC, this has been planned as a self-sustaining project with inbuilt mechanism for self-generating revenue. Under this new concept, a part of the coffee shops would be leased out to a branded coffee chain to attract a wider age group. Different areas would be leased out to cut down the maintenance cost.
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