A store of Sweden’s retailer H&M, the first laser IMAX cinema and the Silpo food hypermarket will be leasers of the Ocean Mall, which opening is scheduled for late summer 2019, CEO of NAI Ukraine, the broker of the shopping center, Vitaliy Boiko has said. “The shopping center is a five-story building, where the Silpo food hypermarket and IKEA will be located at the first floor. Three floors will be retail galleries, where H&M and Inditex will be presented as well. The large entertainment zone will be over 30,000 square meters with virtual and expanded reality… The important element is the first laser IMAX cinema – the third in Europe, which will be opened jointly with Planeta Kino,” Boiko said at a press conference on Wednesday.
He said that the center with a gross area of 300,000 square meters will have 400 stores.
Boiko said that under the Ocean Mall project the investor is financing construction of an additional transport hub, which would allow unloading the Lybedska Square in Kyiv.
An electric train station will also appear near the Ocean Mall. Ocean Mall is part of the chain of shopping and entertainment centers of Vagif Aliyev. As of October 2018, he owns the following shopping centers in Kyiv: Mandarin Plaza, Lavina Mall and Blockbuster Mall, including those under construction Ocean Mall, Lesnaya Mall and Hippodrome Mall. Aliyev also owns Parus Business Center and the Diamond Hill residential complex.
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Sugar production in Ukraine as of October 9, 2018 totaled 420,000 tonnes.
The Ukrtsukor national association of sugar producers said that 37 sugar refineries had been operating as of October 9, which refined 3.38 million tonnes of sugar beets.
As reported, Ukraine officially opened a new sugar refining season on August 31. This year, areas with sugar beet total 280,000 hectares, which is 13% less than last year.
Ukraine exported 560,400 tonnes of sugar in the 2017/18 agricultural year (September-August), which is 27.2% less than in the previous year.
Production of sugar in the 2017/2018 marketing year increased by 6.5%, to 2.14 million tonnes. Some 46 sugar refineries were in operation during that season.
Research and Markets Ltd. has made a list of leading elite real estate agencies from Kyiv out of 280-300, which are operating on the real estate market in the city, according to the company’s data.
According to a report of Research and Markets on the Business Wire website, the top 10 agencies includes Blagovist, Park Lane, Lipki, Lux-Estate, IDGroup Premium Real Estate Brokerage&Investing, The House, Kiev Standard, Elit Realty and Colliers International
The company said that some 280-300 companies are operating on the Kyiv real estate market, including consulting companies, and the number of employees reaches 4,000-5,000 people.
According to the study, average price in the premium real estate segment in Kyiv in 2017 was $2,600 per square meter.
“In 2018, prices could rise by 2-3%, which will not affect the overall picture of the real estate market in Kyiv,” the company analysts said.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is mulling a project to provide a debt funding of EUR 51.9 million to PJSC Ukrgazvydobuvannia to finance the procurement of workover rigs and a package of energy efficiency investments.
According to a report on the bank’s website, the Board of Directors will discuss the project on December 12, 2018.
According to the document, the loan will benefit from a sovereign guarantee by Ukraine.
Ukrgazvydobuvannia, fully owned by Naftogaz Ukrainy, is the country’s largest gas producer, which provides about 75% of the total gas production in the country.
As reported, the EBRD recently defined operational and strategic priorities in Ukraine for the next five years: privatization and improved governance in the public sector, energy security and energy efficiency.
The EBRD is the largest international financial investor in Ukraine. To date, the bank has made a cumulative commitment of almost EUR 12.1 billion across some 400 projects since the start of its operations in the country in 1993.
