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In Lakhta Business Center which construction was started in Primorsky district late autumn, slightly over 40% of the areas will be occupied by Gazprom group companies and other tenants. The remaining space will be divided between the functions considered as secondary by Petersburg-based developers.

 

Lakhta Center Layout Design in Primorsky district is approved by the city’s administration. The official website of the City’s Administration shows a decree and a set of documents defining land surveying of the future complex.

 

Mr. Michael Amosov, Member of Yabloko Political Committee, proposed not to build a separate metro communication to the future Lakhta Center but to rehabilitate the existing railway tracks.

 

As large European cities grow and develop, green technologies start playing a more and more vital role in their life. Green construction, green transport, green tourism. The main objective of this trend is both improving an ecologic situation in large cities and creating comfortable and harmonious urban environment of an absolutely new quality.

 

Dubai-based Arabtec Holding awarded a contract with Gazprom for the construction of the first stage of a 463m skyscraper in Petersburg, the contract cost is 95 million euro, the company advised in the materials for investors at Dubai Stock Exchange.

 

Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC will proceed cooperating with Arabtec Construction. The Arab company involved in the construction of a well-known Burj Dubai Tower and previous Okhta Center General Contractor will also be involved in the part of enabling works under Lakhta Center project. It was advised by Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC Executive Director Alexander Bobkov.

 

The functional structure of Lakhta Center Project has been extensively revised as compared to the original project, Okhta Center Project. The Client has taken a decision to considerably increase the share of the public functions. The new site makes it possible to unfold designers’ imagination of. Julia Gulyak, Social and Business Center Okhta CJSC Head of Design Department is telling us in which way.

On the 31st August in the administration of Primorsky district public hearings were held in respect of the land use plan of the area restricted by a designed street, a designed passageway, Primorsky avenue, the coastline of Lakhta Bay, the coastline of Neva Bay.

 

A construction permit for the first phase of social and business district “Lakhta Center” construction, including high-rise building and adjacent stylobate, is obtained.

 

The office space in the planned Lakhta Centre is to be decreased compared with previous designs for the building. The Okhta Centre was mainly a business centre, but in the Lakhta Centre only 43% of the floor area will be allocated for offices, and about one third of the floor area will contain social and cultural facilities.