Alwarthirunagar

Alwarthirunagar is located between Valasaravakkam and Virugambakkam. The town is primarily residential, and has well maintained parks. Mano, the Tamil cine singer, lives in the town. The real estate business is at its peak in alwarthirunagar. The cost of land is increasing day by day.

Temples

The temples that are present in this location are

1. Ganesh Temple at Velan Nagar: The temple had only Ganesh worship, Later it included Hanuman and was built as a bigger Temple in 1990s.
2. Ayyanar Temple

3)chinthamani vinayar koil

Banks

1. ICICI Bank
2. UTI Bank
3. HDFC Bank
4. Andhra Bank

Apartments

1. Narayani Apartments(Velan Nagar): These were the major sized apartments in the inside part of Velan Nagar and built during 1980s.
2. Sri Vaishnav Apartments(Palanaiappa nagar):

Schools

1. Devi Academy
2. Good Shepherd Matriculation School
3. La Chatelaine School
4. Lamech School
5. St Johns Matriculation Higher Secondary School.

Major Areas

1. Anbu Nagar
2. Balaji Nagar
3. Meenakshi Nagar
4. Palaniappa Nagar
5. Ramakrishna Nagar
6. Ramesh Nagar
7. Velan Nagar

Velan Nagar

Velan Nagar shot during 1984 from the first street near Ganesh Temple

Velan Nagar was named after Velu Naicker who is supposed to own the majority of this place.Velan Nagar is about 1 km inside from the Alwarthirunagar Bus stop and about 800 meters from Lamech Bus stop. During the later part of 1980s there was water stagnation issues during the rainy season. During 1990's the area had developed into a very large residential area. The number of playground areas decreased. Earlier lots of people from Alwarthiruagar used to come to Velan Nagar for playing Games and Cycling was the primary traveling mode. This place also has got a Banyan Tree which is considered holy.

Palaniappa nagar

Some cool dudes like srihari lived there.now he is in USA.Big shots of palaniappa nagar are Mr.Vasudevan(Inspector of Police),Mrs.Janaki ( Senior Physics teacher in st johns)

Vanchinathan street

Vanchi nathan street is famous because of two reasons!! (i)kalyani kalyana mandapam(ii)Vamsa Roopa (Software Engineer,Birla Soft) stays there.

Major Shops

The Kamatchi Stores is the major store in the Nehru street that used to provide major good supply. It had also later opened a branch in Velan Nagar. There was also Iyengar Bakery which used to provide new snacks. Hot Chips were also nearby which used to provide good sacks. This area also had a Aavin Milk Supply at Gandhi Nagar. This Area later became depedednt on Koyambedu Wholesale market as it was cheap. This place also had a Bakery called Hero bread whicih was preset near Chintamani Vinayagar Koil Street End.