Life Along the Highway
There is a particular kind of road that becomes more than a road — it becomes a story of a city's becoming. SG Highway is that story for Ahmedabad. The Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway often referred to as the SG Highway, links two important Gujarat cities, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, with the vicinity to GIFT City and IT businesses in the surrounding areas among its important growth factors. What began decades ago as a connecting artery has, over the years, grown into the address of choice for families and businesses alike, its verges lined with glass towers by day and its avenues quiet with tree-shaded homes by evening.
The highway itself is a study in scale. It stretches 44.5 km, from Ujala Junction in Sarkhej to J-7 Circle in Gandhinagar, and features 11 flyover bridges, one underpass, 11 major junctions, and four minor junctions. Corporate towers such as Shapath V, Titanium One, and Zydus Corporate Park stand along its length, giving the corridor the unmistakable air of a business district that never quite forgets it is also a neighbourhood — one where luxury car showrooms of BMW, Porsche, Triumph, Audi and Rolls-Royce sit only a short drive from quiet residential lanes.
Residentially, the SG Highway belt is less a single locality than a constellation of them. The SG Highway residential zone in Ahmedabad includes Chandkheda, Satellite, Thaltej, Jodhpur Village, and Prahlad Nagar among other localities, each with its own character but bound together by the same spine of road, retail and rail. Business parks such as Pinnacle, Parshwanath and Devashish dot the stretch, while Goyal & Co. Construction and Shikhar Projects are among the names offering homes here, alongside newer entrants building for a buyer who wants both address and access.
Prices along the corridor reflect this layered geography. Flat prices in SG Highway, Ahmedabad are in the range of Rs 6,050-9,100 per square foot, with the average weighted price of apartments at around ₹7,500 per square foot, having moved 3.4% in the last one year — a gentle, steady climb rather than a speculative spike, which is perhaps the most reassuring thing one can say about any address one plans to call home.
