the epicentre of bangalores retail activity is fast moving away from the traditional citycentre high streets of brigade road commercial street and mg road to suburbs and malls the trend is also a reflection of how secondary and peripheral business districts in the city have pulled residents closer to these locations since people like to stay close to their workplaces significant residential activity in secondary business districts such as bannerghatta road jayanagar rajajinagar and yeshwanthpur and peripheral business districts such as whitefield orr outer ring road to sarjapur electronics city and tumkur road has fuelled the development of shopping malls and has given rise to new highstreet locales in terms of gross lettable area or gla secondary and peripheral districts today account for 48 and 42 of the total shopping mall space in the city respectively central business district locations such as mg road richmond road langford town residency road cunningham road contribute just 10 of the total mall space among high streets jayanagar 11th main 4th block commands the highest rental values of rs 250 to rs 300 per sqft as against rentals of rs 200 to rs 275 per sqft on brigade road and rs 175 to rs 240 per sqft on commercial street as per data shared by international property consultants cbre till about a couple of years ago brigade road was the undisputed king of high street locations with rentals in excess of rs 300 per sqft while high street rentals are a fair indicator as to where retailers are headed average trading density or spend per sqft is another indicator that shows the growing shifts in retail consumption patterns across the city data collected by bangaloreheadquartered real estate and retail consultancy firm asipac finds that jayanagar 11th main 4th block reports the same average trading density as brigade road and commercial street of rs 12000 per sqft per annum the average trading density for indiranagar 100 feet road is rs 9000 per sqft per annum followed by koramangala 80 feet road sampige road malleswaram kammanahalli main road marathahalli and new bel road that have spends between rs 6000 and rs 7200 per sqft per annum residential catchments attract retail activity the importance of cbd in the retail context is continuously reducing with the rise of new malls and high streets in suburban locations says amit bagaria founder chairman of asipac group cbres retail report on bangalore points out that the highest annual highstreet rental growth as of june this year was on kammanahalli main road of 477 in fact the largest high street retail leasing activity in the january to june period of this calendar was in kammanahalli where world of titan leased close to 4000 sqft the rapidly developing infrastructure and expanding residential catchments in these locations are harbingers of increased retail activity says juggy marwaha md south india jonesl ang lasallei ndia a globalconsultancy firm brigade road hardly has any significance