The Courtyard by Marriott West Pune will be part of a mixed-use project that will also include an office building. It will be located at the entrance to Phase 1 of Hinjewadi Business Park on the main road connecting Hinjewadi to Pune and the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.

The Courtyard by Marriott West Pune will have a casual restaurant and bar. Other amenities will include an executive lounge; an outdoor swimming pool; a fitness facility; a business center with two work stations; a sundry shop; a Grab & Go kiosk and parking.

For conferences and social events, the hotel will offer 410-square meters of flexible space. Included will be a 250-square meter junior ballroom that will be divisible into two sections, an 80-square meter meeting room also divisible into two sections, as well as two additional meeting rooms, each measuring 40-square meters.

The Marriott International hotel portfolio in India is currently represented by the 358-room JW Marriott Hotel Mumbai, the 297-room Hyderabad Marriott Hotel, the 178-room Goa Marriott Resort Panjim, the 286-room Renaissance Mumbai Hotel & Convention Centre, the 177-room Lakeside Chalet Marriott Executive Apartments, and the 238-room Courtyard by Marriott Chennai.

Under construction are the 250-room JW Marriott Hotel Bangalore (2008), the 210-room Courtyard by Marriott Noida (mid-2008), the 199-room Courtyard by Marriott Gurgaon (mid-2008), the 250-room Courtyard by Marriott Kolkata (mid-2008), the 173-room Marriott Executive Apartments Gurgaon (2009) and the 193-room Courtyard by Marriott Hyderabad (2009). Additionally, the Renaissance Mumbai Hotel & Convention Centre is adding 271 rooms which are scheduled to open in late 2007.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is to go online for approving building plans, a first in the country. The automation of the development control rules will lead to architects getting their approved plans in 24 days. The PMC has till now approved 3,600 building permission plans after the introduction of the system a year ago. The number of approvals in the comparable period in the previous 12 months was only 1,100.

New Delhi, December 12, 2006 - A new site at Rajguru Nagar, six km. north of Chakan in Pune has been identified as the possible site for a civilian airport in Pune. This information was given by Shri Praful Patel, Minister for Civil Aviation in the Parliament today.

The earlier site, identified at Chakan in Pune was not acceptable to the Ministry of Defence from operational point of view with reference to the existing Defence Airfield at Lohegaon in Pune.

Thus in the month of October 2006, a team comprising of officials from Airports Authority of India(AAI), the Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) and Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation(MIDC) carried out preliminary site inspection of an alternate site near Rajguru Nagar. This site is acceptable to the Ministry of Defence.

MIDC has been requested to provide the meteorological data of the new site in coordination with the Indian Meteorological Department. After receipt of these details a technical study will be carried out and thereafter appropriate decision will be taken by the Government in the matter.