A twin city built on a highway, not a coastline
Hubballi-Dharwad's landscaping demand looks nothing like the coastal or hill-station markets nearby — this is a corridor city, sitting squarely on the route that links Pune and Bengaluru, and its growth has been driven by education campuses, hospital expansion and warehousing rather than tourism or heritage. A pebble stone supplier in Hubballi-Dharwad ends up dealing with a mix of institutional landscaping and new residential layouts that has more in common with an inland logistics town than with Karnataka's coast.
Because so much of the surrounding traffic already moves as full commercial loads along the highway, the twin cities benefit from straightforward freight economics: a full-truck consignment routed through this corridor tends to work out more efficiently per tonne than a similar order to a city off the main highway network.