Before Ballard Estate was developed, a row of jetties served as docking points for boats arriving from ports on the Konkan and Malabar coast, such as Cochin, Mangalore, Kumta, and Calicut. Consequently, the street that led to the jetty was named after these places. Some streets have been renamed but some, like Cochin Street, have retained the old name.
Imperial Chambers on SS Tolani Marg (formerly Wilson Road). The ground floor house the Finance department of the Mumbai Port Trust which handles the pensions of its employees.
Mackinnon Mackenzie and Co. was formed by William Mackinnon (1823-93) and Robert Mackenzie (1810-53). In 1856, Mackinnon Mackenzie and Co. secured East India Company's mail contract between Kolkata and Rangoon and founded the Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company Ltd, the forerunner to the British India Steam Navigation Company.
The New Custom House stands at the intersection of S Vallabhdas Road and R Kamani Road. It was designed in collaboration by John Begg and George Wittet and completed in 1913. However, with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, it was converted into a military hospital. The building was formally handed over to the Customs Department in 1922.
Kaisar-i-Hind is located on Currimbhoy Road, named after Ebrahim Currimbhoy (1839-1924), a Gujarati Khoja businessman who founded E. Pabaney & Co. and made a fortune in the opium trade with China. He was nominated Trustee of the Port of Bombay. For his services, the British conferred E. Currimbhoy with Knighthood (1905) and Baronetcy (1910).
The Port Trust War Memorial was installed in 1919 as a traffic roundabout, located at the junction of three streets; SS Ramgulam Road, N Morarji Road, and Shoorji Vallabhdas Road. The pedestal is irregularly hexagonal, with commemorative plaques fixed on the three larger sides. The pedestal supports a circular, fluted column crowned with a metal lamp on top.
In 1970, a new passenger berth was commissioned at the Ballard Pier Extension for luxury liners. It currently serves as the Mumbai International Cruise Terminal, expected to be commissioned by July 2024. The terminal will have a capacity of handling 200 ships and 10 lakh passengers per annum. Two cruise ships will be able to berth at a time at the dock.