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Bangalore — or Bengaluru , to give it its official name — is a city that rolls with the zeitgeist . In the onetime garden city , now the heart of India ’ s Silicon Valley , temples and traditional street vendors vie with craft breweries , imaginative cocktails and an idiosyncratic dining scene . Into this mix comes the first Hyatt Centric in India , on the historic MG
( Mahatma Gandhi ) Road , opened in May . Created for “ millennial-minded ” travelers who want to be at the heart of the action , Hyatt Centrics are located in the center of each of their 23 worldwide destinations , designed to be launch pads for guests to see , taste and feel everything a city has to offer . Rahul Shankhwalker , partner in design firm Studio HBA , says the goal for this particular hotel , formerly the Hyatt Bangalore , was “ to curate an experience for guests that was unequivocally Bangalorean .”
“ The most interesting and challenging part of the project , as India ’ s first Hyatt Centric , was how to adapt the American brand to a local context ,” he says . “ There was quite a lot of research involved in the
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