Fit-out submission
Drawings, finish specifications, signage details and electrical load packaged for mall management review before site access is granted.
Hyderabad · Mall kiosks and counters
Kiosk fit-outs measured in night shifts, not weeks.
A mall does not close for your fit-out. Work happens after trading, behind approved hoarding, with nothing loud, dusty or bulky crossing a common area — so the programme is built from the number of usable night windows rather than from calendar days. Published rate: ₹2,500 to ₹4,000 per sq ft, delivered in 2 to 3 weeks. AlcorOne has executed mall counters in Kukatpally and Gachibowli.
The mall is the first dependency.
A high-street landlord is a negotiation. Mall management is a formal submission with a calendar of its own, and it sits ahead of every material on the programme.
Fit-out approval means drawings, material and finish specifications, signage details and electrical load submitted for review, together with the contractor's own documentation, before site access is granted at all. A refundable deposit is held against common-area damage, and every worker has to be registered for access passes. None of it is difficult and all of it is sequential, which is why the submission is prepared during design rather than after it — a kiosk whose drawings are ready but whose approval is not cannot start, and the two-to-three-week build window is short enough that a fortnight lost to a resubmission is the whole programme. What malls most often send back is signage projecting beyond the demised line, electrical load above the allocated supply, and finishes that fail the centre's fire classification. Those three are worth resolving before the first submission rather than discovering across two review cycles.
Deposit and access passes
Refundable common-area damage deposit lodged and every worker registered, so mobilisation is not held at the service entrance.
The three usual rejections
Signage past the demised line, load above allocated supply, and finishes failing the centre's fire classification — resolved pre-submission.
Why a kiosk costs more per sq ft than a store.
It reads like a pricing anomaly until you look at what a kiosk is made of.
A kiosk is all edge and no middle. A retail store of several hundred square feet spreads its counter, signage and display joinery across a large floor and wall area, much of which is simply flooring, paint and plain partition — inexpensive per square foot and generous in quantity. A sixty-square-foot counter has none of that dilution: it is finished joinery, display, signage and lighting from one end to the other, with a fully specified electrical and data feed running through it. That is why our published kiosk rate is ₹2,500 to ₹4,000 per sq ft against ₹1,800 to ₹3,500 for a retail store, and why comparing the two rates directly tells you very little. The same concentration is what makes the format fast. With no wet trades, no ceiling grid and no significant civil work, a kiosk is a fabrication-and-install job: most of the value is built in a workshop and the site period is short, which is exactly what suits a night-shift programme inside a trading mall.
Mall kiosk / counter
₹2,500–₹4,000 per sq ft · 2–3 weeks. Counter, display, signage and lighting.
Retail store
₹1,800–₹3,500 per sq ft · 4–6 weeks. Storefront, wall bays, cash counter and flooring.
Workshop-led delivery
Most of the joinery is built offsite and installed, which is what makes a night-window programme feasible.
What brands ask us.
What does a mall kiosk fit-out cost in Hyderabad?
Our published rate for a mall kiosk or counter — covering counter, display, signage and lighting — is ₹2,500 to ₹4,000 per sq ft, delivered in 2 to 3 weeks. It is the highest per-sq-ft rate of any retail format we publish and the shortest programme, because a kiosk is almost entirely finished joinery and lighting across a very small floor area, with none of the wall and floor area that dilutes the rate in a larger store.
Why does a kiosk cost more per sq ft than a full retail store?
Because a kiosk is all edge and no middle. A 900 sq ft store spreads its counter, signage and display joinery across a large floor and wall area, much of which is simply flooring and paint. A 60 sq ft kiosk is counter, display, signage and lighting with nothing cheap in between, so its rate lands at ₹2,500 to ₹4,000 per sq ft against ₹1,800 to ₹3,500 for a store.
How does mall management approval work, and how long does it take?
A mall is a formal submission with its own calendar, unlike a high-street unit where the landlord is a negotiation. Drawings, material and finish specifications, signage details, electrical load and the contractor's own documentation go to mall management for fit-out approval before site access is granted, along with a refundable deposit and workers registered for access passes. The submission sits on the critical path ahead of every material, which is why it is prepared during design rather than after it.
Can the kiosk be built while the mall is trading?
That is the normal condition. Malls restrict fit-out work to night windows after trading hours, require the work zone barricaded to an approved hoarding standard, and prohibit noise, dust and material movement through common areas during trading. The programme is therefore built from the number of usable night shifts rather than from calendar days, with each shift planned to reach a presentable state before the mall opens.
Do you handle signage and illuminated branding for the kiosk?
Yes — signage, brand facade and illumination are part of the fit-out scope rather than a separate vendor's, including illuminated counters and lightbox signage. Completed examples of counter illumination and shopfront signage are photographed in the Tai Tai fit-out in Jubilee Hills.
Has AlcorOne executed mall work in Hyderabad?
Yes — Hyderabad retail work includes mall counters in Kukatpally and Gachibowli, alongside high-street storefronts in Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills and F&B units along dining corridors such as Road No. 36. Each mall carries a different approval process and footfall pattern, which is what shapes the fit-out sequence.
Do you provide mall store fit-out services as well as kiosks?
Yes. Mall store fit-out services and kiosk work share the mall's rules — a fit-out manual, a drawings approval before access is granted, night-shift working hours, a fixed handover date and a reinstatement obligation — but the scope differs. An in-line store carries a shopfront, display systems, retail lighting and a stockroom; a kiosk is a freestanding unit with a tighter per-sq-ft cost because everything is visible from every side. Both are quoted from the same published South India rate card.
Send the mall, the unit area and the handover date.
We will come back on the centre's likely fit-out submission requirements, how many night shifts the programme needs, signage and load items worth resolving before submission, and what is still needed to date the work.