coimbatore the textile city is fast turning out to be a favoured location for multinational companies mncs looking for space to set up their backoffice operations ecommerce major amazon india has taken up 65000 sq ft space at the india land tech park at saravanampatty near the cityamazon development centre india which launched its customer service facility in the city on monday is planning to take up another 50000 sq ft at the same location in the next 78 months sources said the ecommerce behemoth would eventually employ about 600 persons at the centreindia land which has around 8 lakh sq ft of it information technology space at the park has rented out about 2 lakh sq ft in the last six months alone with this the park which was available for occupation from 201011 has completely run out of spaceincidentally the tidel park promoted by the staterun elcot electronics corporation of tamil nadu in the city is also totally occupied now tidel park which was launched in 2010 has it space of about 9 lakh sq fta host of factors including the increase in rentals in chennai in the last one year the need for an alternative location to chennai in the event of natural calamities and the good availability of skilled manpower in coimbatore has led to the spurt in demand for space at it information technology sezs special economic zonesthe demand for sez space is very good now coimbatore has really picked up in recent months said s saalai kumaran chief executive officer india land group rentals for it information technology space has gone up from rs 3035 per sq ft per month in chennai to rs 4045 per sq ft now in contrast space is available at rs 2528 per sq ft in coimbatoreamazon is not the only one to move into the city others including hella automotive has taken up 30000 sq ft for its engineering back office at the same location last month the facility would employ about 150 persons usbased healthcare bpo business process outsourcing firm logix also took up 50000 sq ft of space in february and would employ about 500 persons verticurl the subsidiary of advertising giant wpp signed up for 30000 sq ft of space in february which would employ 300 persons at india land apart from the tidel park and india land chil coimbatore hitech infrastructure promoted by the citybased kgisl is a major provider of it space in the city incidentally kgisl was a copromoter of india land tech park when it was launched india land bought out the 26 stake held by kgisl in the venture last year