If you’ve spent any time looking at luxury apartments across Mohali, Chandigarh, or Zirakpur, most projects start to blur together after a while — similar glass facades, similar amenity lists, similar “ultra-luxury” language on every hoarding. Gillco Meraqui is one of the few recent launches on Airport Road that’s actually built around a genuinely different premise, not just different marketing copy.
Here’s what actually sets it apart.
1. Only 3 apartments per floor — not 4, not 6
Most towers in this price bracket in the Tricity fit six to eight units on a single floor to maximize saleable area. Meraqui’s entire 444-unit, six-tower layout is built around just three residences per floor. That single decision changes daily life more than any clubhouse amenity does — fewer people sharing your lift lobby, less noise at your door, and a level of privacy that’s genuinely rare at this scale of development.
If you want the specifics on unit sizing against this layout, we’ve broken it down in Inside Mohali’s Most Exclusive Address.
2. A design philosophy, not just a facade
Meraqui is built around what Gillco calls “The Greek Art of Living” — proportion, symmetry, and courtyard-led design borrowed from classical architecture, rather than the glass-box modernism most towers on this stretch default to. It’s a slower, more considered design language, and it shows in how the towers, courtyards, and clubhouse are laid out. We’ve gone deeper into this design story in The Greek Art of Living: The Design Philosophy Behind Meraqui.
3. A developer with 25 years of delivery, and a new chapter
Gillco Group has been active in this region since 2001 — 17+ delivered projects, over 43 million sq.ft. built, and more than 6,000 families housed. Meraqui is notable for a different reason: it’s the first project independently led by Managing Director Tejpreet Singh Gill, rather than a joint or family-committee-led development. For buyers evaluating a pre-launch or early-construction project, that combination of track record and direct accountability is worth weighing carefully.
4. Genuine scale, on genuinely significant land
Spread across 12 acres of clear-titled land on PR-7 Airport Road, Meraqui isn’t a single infill tower — it’s a planned community of six towers with landscaped greens, an elite clubhouse, sports and wellness spaces, and a retail component designed to serve residents without opening the project up to general foot traffic.
5. Pricing that doesn’t punish you for wanting more space
A detail most buyers don’t check closely enough: many projects quietly raise the per-square-foot rate as unit size increases. Meraqui holds a flat ₹11,500/sq.ft. rate whether you’re looking at a 3,200 sq.ft. or a 4,500 sq.ft. residence. We’ve laid out the exact numbers in Is Gillco Meraqui a Good Investment?
The bottom line
“Different” is a word every developer uses. In Meraqui’s case, the difference is structural — fewer units per floor, a distinct design philosophy, a developer with a real delivery history, and pricing that stays honest as unit size scales up. Whether that difference matters to you depends on what you’re actually looking for in a home or an investment — which is exactly what the rest of this series digs into.