Building homes and communities across Gujarat since 1975, guided by a single belief: construction must outlast its creators.
Mainland Group traces its origins to 1975, when Praful Dave, a Civil Engineer by training, began building homes in Ahmedabad with a single belief: construction must outlast its creators.
Over five decades, that belief has guided the group through multiple economic cycles, policy shifts and market disruptions — from Vaishali Apartments in Paldi in 1975, to Dharnidhar Tower (one of the few highrises to survive the 2001 earthquake without structural damage), to Himalaya Falaknuma's 100+ units delivered in 2023.
In 2017, Mainland Group was formally established as the consolidation vehicle for the group's development, investment and new-platform activities.
Praful Dave's first completed project. Quality construction that set the benchmark for all that followed.
A 10-storey highrise that survived the 2001 earthquake without structural damage. Still a landmark address today.
Brings e-governance experience and a new strategic vision — an institution-building approach to development.
SIERRA, Sharanam and Vanshvana. New brands, new platforms — the same founding discipline.
422 flats + 121 shops across 6.2 lakh sq. ft. A landmark of the Juhapura belt.
Projects are evaluated not for immediate absorption but for their ability to remain structurally sound and socially relevant over decades. Projects from the 1970s remain sought-after addresses today.
Capital is scarce and respected. Mainland avoids excessive leverage and speculative expansion, preferring asset-backed growth where downside risk is structurally limited.
Every project responds to its micro-market: location dynamics, community needs, infrastructure trajectory and regulatory landscape. No templated replication.
A conservative execution culture with emphasis on construction quality, regulatory compliance and contractual clarity. This discipline has enabled Mainland to withstand market downturns without reputational compromise.
Long-term relationships with architects, contractors, landowners, financial partners and co-developers are valued over transactional arrangements.
Capital partnerships at Mainland are structured around transparency, clarity of governance and mutual alignment — not short-term yield maximisation.
Land-led and infrastructure-led opportunities. No speculative structures.
Long-duration holding capability. No forced-exit pressure.
Co-investors who share both risk and decision discipline.
Transparent structures. No ambiguity on roles or returns.
A Civil Engineer by training who founded Mainland on a single conviction — that construction must outlast its creators. The standard he set in Paldi still defines the group.
Came to real estate from molecular biology and a decade building e-governance systems for the Government of Gujarat — bringing an institution-building approach to a half-century of expertise.
I came to real estate from an unusual direction. My academic grounding was in molecular biology. My professional decade was spent building e-governance systems for the Government of Gujarat.
But somewhere in that work, I kept returning to a fundamental question: what endures? Software gets deprecated. Policies change. But a well-built building on a well-chosen piece of land — that endures. That serves families across generations. That outlasts its creators.
Mainland is not trying to be the largest developer in Ahmedabad. We are trying to be the most enduring.
Of our residential buyers return — not always to buy, but to ask. They have absorbed Mainland's judgment as part of their own decision-making. That is not customer retention. That is trust compounding over time.
The road ahead is deliberately narrow — chosen for endurance, not volume.