Jimmy Mistry

CMD, DELLA TOWNSHIPS INDIA
Redefining how
India lives, works and dreams
A Manifesto
How should humanity live for the next 100 years?
I believe one of the greatest opportunities before us is not simply to build more cities. It is to rethink how human beings should live.
For more than a century, much of urban development has been measured through land, density, infrastructure, efficiency and economic value. I believe the next century must be measured differently.
- Are we helping people live longer?
- Are we helping them live healthier?
- Are we bringing people closer to nature?
- Are we creating stronger human relationships?
- Are we giving children better environments in which to grow?
- Are we allowing generations to remain connected?
- Are our buildings capable of serving humanity for 100 years?
- Can our cities regenerate more than they consume?
And ultimately
Can the places we design add years to life and life to years?
What we will explore
- Salutogenic living, longevity and medical wellness
- Biophilic, biomimetic and regenerative architecture
- 100-year buildings
- New models of community and intergenerational living
- Circular and future materials
- Carbon capture and biodiversity
- Water intelligence
- Future mobility
- Multi-utility infrastructure
- Artificial intelligence and invisible technology
- Hospitality, recreation, culture and human experience
- And ideas that perhaps do not exist today
A laboratory must do more than showcase innovation.
And when something works, it must share that knowledge so others can build upon it.
- It must be an experiment.
- It must measure.
- It must learn.
- It must sometimes fail.
- It must improve.
That is why I do not see Della’s Townships as isolated developments. I see them as one distributed Living Laboratory across India.
But one common purpose.
- Ahmedabad
- Hyderabad
- Mumbai · Pune · Delhi
- The World
What succeeds in Ahmedabad should inform Hyderabad. What succeeds in Hyderabad should travel to Mumbai, Pune, Delhi and beyond. And what succeeds in India should ultimately be available for the world to learn from, improve upon and replicate.
I do not believe any one architect, company, university or country possesses the answer to the future of human living. The challenges are simply too interconnected.
The future must be collaborative.
That is why these laboratories will remain open to ideas from the world’s finest minds and institutions. India can become the place where global knowledge meets real-world implementation at an unprecedented scale. Not because we believe we already know the future. But because we are willing to question it, experiment with it and build it.
My ambition is therefore larger than creating successful townships. I want to create a platform through which India can contribute meaningful new knowledge about how humanity should live.
- Ideas become experiments
- Experiments become evidence
- Evidence becomes solutions
- Solutions travel from one township to another, from India to the world
India does not merely have to inherit the cities of the future. India can help design them.
And through the Della Future-Fit Living Laboratories, I want to dedicate the next chapter of my life to helping make that possible.
Design Futurist · Master Planner · Creator of Future-Fit Cities
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Success can only be measured by the number of human lives one has touched positively.
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DESIGN FUTURIST, MASTER PLANNER &
CREATOR OF FUTURE-FIT CITIES
CMD
Della Townships India


Founder's Letter Della Townships
Designing the Next 100 Years of Human Living
For most of my life, I have been Designing Experiences, across Architecture, Interiors, Hospitality, Adventure and Real Estate.
But today, I find myself asking a much larger question:
How should Humanity live for the next 100 years?
Designing the Next 100 Years of Human Living
For most of my life, I have been Designing Experiences, across Architecture, Interiors, Hospitality, Adventure and Real Estate. But today, I find myself asking a much larger question:
How should Humanity live for the next 100 years?
Our cities were largely designed for another era. The next generation will live in a World transformed by Technology, Climate, Longevity, new ways of working and an entirely different relationship between people and nature.
I believe this demands more than better buildings. It demands a new way of thinking about human living itself.
That belief led me to create Della Townships India.
I see our townships as more than real estate developments. I see them as real-world living laboratories for future-fit living, places where Architecture, Technology, Nature, Wellness, Mobility, Hospitality, Work, Entertainment and Human experience can come together as one integrated ecosystem.
And when I say living laboratories, I mean it literally.
Alongside building commercially successful townships, we are creating platforms for experimentation and research from microalgae-based carbon capture and converting landfill waste into next-generation construction materials, to Salutogenic Planning, Biophilic and Biomimetic Architecture, Regenerative Systems and Invisible Technologies.
We are bringing together some of the finest minds from India and around the world, architects, designers, engineers, scientists, researchers, technologists and specialists, not simply to imagine the future, but to test it, commercialise it and build it.
Because I strongly believe:
The future cannot only be discussed. It has to be built.
And I believe India has an extraordinary opportunity. For decades, we have looked to the world’s great cities for inspiration. I want to help reverse that lens.
What if the world began looking towards India to understand how the next generation of human living could be designed?
Through Della Townships India , we want to create places that add years to life and life to years, places designed around human wellbeing, experiences, community, and nature, while remaining commercially viable and scalable. This is not a project with a finish line. It is an ongoing experiment across multiple Della integrated luxury townships, living laboratories, disciplines, and global collaborations, continually questioning how we can live better.
My ambition is that the ideas we develop here will extend far beyond Della. That they contribute to a larger body of knowledge about the future of human living. And that, years from now, when the world asks where some of the ideas shaping the next 100 years were first imagined, tested, and built, India will be part of that answer.

Jimmy Mistry Honored as Hospitality Entrepreneur of the Year 2026 by IIHM & IHC London
Della Townships India
1ˢᵗ Jul 2026

Beyond Real Estate: Jimmy Mistry on Building a Legacy of Environmental & Social Impact
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19ᵗʰ Jun 2026

From Microalgae to Smarter Townships: Jimmy Mistry’s Sustainability Vision at Della Resorts
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18ᵗʰ Jun 2026

Celebrating the Visionary Behind Della: Jimmy Mistry on Design, Hospitality & Innovation
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12ᵗʰ Jun 2026

Celebrating Pune’s Hospitality Spirit: Jimmy Mistry at the Bhairavee Inauguration
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7ᵗʰ Jun 2026

100 years of RSS Jimmy Mistry on Discipline, Service & Nation building
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1ˢᵗ Jun 2026

Della Townships India Named Best Realtor Brand 2026 at ET Edge Under Jimmy Mistry’s Vision
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1ˢᵗ Apr 2026

Ram Navami 2026 at Della Resorts: A Powerful Celebration of Faith & Purpose
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26ᵗʰ Mar 2026

No Shortcuts: Jimmy Mistry on Visionary Leadership & Building Businesses That Last at Bizardzz 2026
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25ᵗʰ Mar 2026

Recreating Persepolis in India: Jimmy Mistry’s Grand Persian Set 300 Artisans. One Persian Masterpiece.
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