Press 2011

Office development planned for Ploshchad Tverskoi Zastavy

Despite promises that major office developments would be banned from Moscow’s overcrowded center, plans have surfaced in the press describing a major office project to be developed in the area surrounding Belorussky Station.

November, 30 2011 | More ››

VERA SETSKAYA, President, GVA Sawyer

2011 | More ››

For Now, Green Materials Make For Tough Selling

Long-time political and business figure Anatoly Chubais, the head of state nanotechnology corporation Rusnano, was there. So was Mikhail Prokhorov, the billionaire entrepreneur who heads Onexim Group. And Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov also was on hand for the November event: the launch of a major new manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg for high-tech, energy-efficient lighting. It was an impressive array of faces for a company that had officially started just five years earlier.

March, 03 2011 | More ››

First for Brokers

CRE North-West is privileged to offer you the First Rating of Saint Petersburg Brokerage Companies. The main aim of its publication is figuring the absorption of office, retail and industrial space in the city as well as analyzing the competitive environment in the market of brokerage services in 2010.

March, 01 2011 | More ››

Saint Petersburg’s Business Centers

The office market begins this year with deficit. For the time being this is only the shortage of areas for large tenants, since the owners of business centers split them into smaller units in the wake of the crisis. Yet in a couple of years, pre-crisis demand will return, in the opinion of experts, who advise to launch new projects and unfreeze construction sites already today.

March, 01 2011 | More ››

Trading Centers in Saint Petersburg

St. Petersburg has become number one Russian city in terms of retail; it has even shot ahead of Moscow by per capita retail space, drawing very near to European capitals. Developers have stopped at that, none of them announcing big projects nowadays.

March, 01 2011 | More ››

FIFA World Cup 2018: Expensive Calories

According to professional builders of sports facilities, a calorie of cold is seven times more expensive that the one of heat. This means that any winter sports facility typically costs seven times more that a summer sports facility to build. Nevertheless, the budget of the Football World Cup that Russia will host in 2018 is comparable to the Sochi Olympics budget.

February, 01–15 2011 | More ››

First for Brokers

CRE North-West is privileged to offer you the First Rating of Saint Petersburg Brokerage Companies. The main aim of its publication is figuring the absorption of office, retail and industrial space in the city as well as analyzing the competitive environment in the market of brokerage services in 2010

March 2011 | More ››

City Branding Dilemma

In a free market economy each city should have its own business plan or a brand-book as well as other attributes typical of a commercial project. Consultants are positive that overseas experience is to be transplanted to the Russian soil, but for now the attempts at brand building made by local administrations are very sporadic and timid. Reformers tread a thorny path of outlaws.

February, 01–15 2011 | More ››