Stolitsa Group investment and developing company, which is part of Lithuania’s BT Invest, jointly with Colliers International (Ukraine) has finished the restyling of the food court and restaurant zone in the Retroville shopping and entertainment center located at 47, Pravdy Avenue in Kyiv. The mall will be opened in 2019. “Together with colleagues, we have analyzed the shopping and entertainment centers in Kyiv, including the mistakes made by developers in the planning of food court zones and the location of restaurants. With extensive experience in the development and management of the shopping and entertainment centers in the Baltic states and Kazakhstan, we tried to implement the best ideas and carried out a complete renovation of the project catering zone at the Retroville shopping mall. This process included an increase in the number of operators representing a variety of cuisines, as well as an increase in the sitting area of the food court to 1,800 square meters, which today is the largest sitting zone among shopping centers of Kyiv,” Colliers International said in a press release, citing the Retroville director general.
According to the report, the sitting zone will be located on the second floor along the glass facade of the center.
According to Natalia Kravets, Director of the commercial real estate department at Colliers International (Ukraine), the tender to select operators has already been launched and anchor tenants have been identified both in the area of the food court (about 15 operators, including McDonald’s) and in the restaurant zone.
Colliers International earlier reported that the opening of the Retroville shopping center with a gross area of 118,900 square meters with an eleven-story class B business center in Kyiv was postponed from August 2018 to early 2019.
Holding the final of the UEFA Champions League in Kyiv, which took place on May 26, will lead to an increase in the flow of foreign tourists to the Ukrainian capital, the Kyiv City State Administration has said. “To date, we expect an increase in the tourist flow due to this sporting holiday. In 2016 Kyiv hosted 1.3 million foreigners, in 2017 – 1.6 million. We also associate this with the Eurovision song contest. Therefore, such an event as the Champions League final will definitely bring an additional effect,” Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Oleksiy Reznikov said at a press conference in Kyiv.
He noted that 180 hotels for 20,000 people had been completely redeemed for the Champions League final six months before the match. In addition, according to him, on the initiative of Kyiv citizens, foreign fans lived free of charge in about 2,000 households. “We have already paid UAH 14 million of hotel fees for five months of this year. So, we expect about UAH 30 million only for hotel fees,” Reznikov said.
The Boryspil airport has serviced a record number of passengers during the final of the UEFA Champions League in Kyiv – almost 53,000 people. “On that day we serviced 52,599 passengers, which is the absolute record in the history of the Boryspil airport. For comparison, we had 38,000 passengers during the Euro-2012 final. Last year we once hit the mark of 40,000 passengers,” Director General of the airport Pavlo Riabikin said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He said that on May 26, the airport serviced 31 charter flights with 6,393 fans of Real and fans of Liverpool used 40 flights (8,822 passengers). There were three flights with official delegations of the King of Spain, the prime minister of Gabon and the president of the Czech Republic, and 72 flights were additionally serviced. Riabikin said that the airport additionally earned UAH 31.5 million of net profit on that day.
Brussels Airlines (Belgium) from October 17, 2018 will launch regular flights between Kyiv and Brussels, the airline has said. “Due to visa liberalization in Ukraine and the policy of the country close to the EU, during the last two years the demand for flights between Kyiv and Brussels has increased significantly. In order to meet the growing demand, Brussels Airlines launches direct air connection between Kyiv and Brussels and offers four flights a week,” the report says.
According to the press service of the air carrier, flights will be performed on board Airbus aircraft four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.
Brussels Airlines is the largest airline and national air carrier of Belgium. It is a subsidiary of Lufthansa, which owns 45% of SN Airholding, which owns Brussels Airlines.
China’s Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited is interested in building a cement plant, a construction materials park and investing in tourism. The press service of the Odesa Regional Council reported that the issues were discussed at a meeting of Chairman of the Odesa Regional Council Anatoliy Urbansky with representatives of Chinese business. A delegation from China included the commercial consul of the General Consulate of China in Odesa, representatives of Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited and the Ukrainian branch of China Metallurgical Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd. The Odesa Regional Council expressed its readiness to consider all investment proposals of Chinese businessmen.
China Metallurgical Construction Engineering Group is a large company in China. It is involved in construction of industrial and civil facilities in China and abroad. Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited produces and sells cement and commodity clinker. Its products are exported to over 20 countries, including the United States and the EU.
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
