This chapter attempts to bring out the rising aspirations of different populations and the state in the gentrifying textile mill lands of Mumbai. The chapter argues that rising disparity and everyday contrast and contestation in the gentrifying mill land areas also offers the scope for negotiation. Whether it is locational advantage of the textile mill lands or astronomical growth of the land value, the city space of Mumbai is used by people pertaining to different classes. Through an ethnographic study of an inner city neighbourhood and its surrounding areas, it brings out and discusses certain specificities within the gentrification process of Mumbai.