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.
The department of municipal ownership of the Kyiv City Administration has sold a nonresidential building located at 8 (A, A2) Heorhiyevsky Lane in the Shevchenkivsky district of Kyiv, at an auction to Global Invest LLC (Kyiv) for UAH 102.541 million (around $4 million).
The department of municipal ownership told in response to the inquiry of Interfax-Ukraine that the building with gross area of 3,800 square meters was placed to the list of facilities being in municipal ownership of the Kyiv community and eligible to privatization.
According to the unified public register, the holder of 99.776% of the charter capital of Global Invest LLC is UDP Asset Management LLC, which acts on its own behalf and on behalf of Misky Quarter fund (as of June 8, 2018, the company also holds 67.3% in the charter capital of Ukrainian Development Partners (UDP) LLC).
The department said that a nonresidential building located at 44A, Khreschatyk Street was sold to Vacus-Investments LLC (Kyiv) for UAH 32.3 million.
Verdis LLC (Kyiv) privatized a building with gross area of 435 square meters located at 1/2A, Baseina Street for UAH 4.3 million.
Kronker Group LLC bought a building with gross areas of 460 square meters located at 3A, Trukhanivska Street for UAH 5.9 million.
Global Invest LLC was founded in 2004. Its core business is construction of residential and nonresidential buildings. The ultimate beneficiary is ex-director general of UDP Valeriy Kodetsky.
