Development company UDP, part of the UFuture investment group belonged to businessman Vasyl Khmelnytsky, plans to launch phase one of the innovative LvivTech.City park with an area of 18,000 square meters in September 2021, Vice-President of UDP Vitaliy Melnyk has said.
“As for LvivTech.City, in September of this year, we plan to launch phase one – about 18,000 square meters – of the business campus, after which we will begin to build the residential part,” the press service of UFuture said, quoting Melnyk.
According to him, the area of the park is 5 hectares, the planned area of real estate is 110,000 square meters. The Innovation Park has already signed a memorandum of partnership with IWG, which operates the Regus and Spaces coworking spaces.
UDP also plans to disclose plans for the development of an innovation park in Kharkiv in the near future, Melnyk added.
“UNIT.City Kharkiv is located on 9 hectares and in the future it will have about 250,000 square meters of space. In Kharkiv, we have implemented development phase one through the reconstruction of the former exhibition center. More than 3,000 square meters of real estate were put into operation, where educational and office premises are concentrated. In the near future we will announce plans on the further development of the Kharkiv park,” he said.
Melnyk also said that today on the territory of Kyiv’s Unit.City, more than 100,000 square meters of office and residential premises are being implemented, the main square (Main Plaza), designed by the architect Hiroki Matsuura, is preparing for the opening.
As reported, LvivTech.City will be located on the territory of the industrial zone of the former Lvivprylad plant. It is planned that the total area of the office part will be more than 40,000 square meters. The park will be equipped with parking lots, a green area and recreation areas. In addition, the project will be implemented according to LEED energy and environmental design standards.
The completion of phase one of the LvivTech.City innovation park was previously scheduled for the second half of 2018, later postponed to the end of 2019.
In addition, UFuture together with National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” has implemented the Innovations Campus educational space in Kharkiv worth more than UAH 60 million.