Sunshine Service Apartments @ Location - 6 is situated at a distance of 13 kilometres south-west of Chennai on the Mount-Poonamallee Road. It is bound by Alandur and St Thomas Mount to the east and Manapakkam to the west. It is bound by Ramapuram to the north and north-west and Pallavaram to the south. The township extends from the Madras War Cemetery on the east to the banks of the Adyar River on the west.

The growth of Location - 6 dates from the post-independence era. In 1952, the Madras War Cemetery was constructed on the eastern fringes of Location - 6. During the 1950s and early 1960s, a number of social welfare schemes were launched here. During the Chief Ministership of K. Kamaraj, proposals were made for establishing a surgical instruments factory at Location - 6 with Russian collaboration. This project undertaken by the Indian Drugs and Pharmceuticals Limited culminated in the inaugration of the factory constructed at the cost of Rs. 52.5 million and expected to manufacture 2.5 million pieces of surgical instruments on September 1, 1965.

India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO)'s first fair infrastructure outside Delhi, the Chennai Trade Centre was inaugurated 3 kms away from Location - 6 in January 2001. Spread over an area of 25 acres (100,000 m2), the Chennai Trade Centre, a joint venture of ITPO and Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO), was designed to conduct trade fairs in the city.The MIOT Hospital is just 2 kms away from Location -6 and the DLF IT Park is also 2 kms away and Location - 6 is just behind DLF IT Park.