It has 35 floors, on completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in South Asia, surpassing the 105 metres (344 ft) Express Towers, located next door.
[1] [citation needed] It stayed the tallest building in South Asia until 1980, when Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers were completed in downtown Mumbai .
[3] Oberoi paid Sheraton a fee of $150 per room per year to manage the hotel, but this gave him access to an international reservations and marketing system, and also allowed him to qualify for a 43.5 million rupee loan from the United States Agency for International Development.
[4] In 1978, Sheraton signed a marketing agreement with ITC to represent the properties of their WelcomHotels division, located across India.
[6] It was renamed Trident Nariman Point on 1 April 2008,[7] when the alliance with Hilton ended.