DEOL Partners and Maculan Holding at Austrian-Ukrainian Business Forum

Kyiv, Ukraine, July 10, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Alexander Maculan, chairman of the board of directors of Maculan Holding, and Ruslan Oleksenko, DEOL Partners Managing Partner, took part in the business forum, held a joint meeting with Heinz Fischer, President of the Republic of Austria, discussed Ukraine’s investment climate, trends in the commercial real estate market, the implementation of shared Austrian and Ukrainian projects.

“I think it is a right time to invest actively into Ukraine. Therefore I suggested Heinz Fischer arriving in Ukraine precisely now as it testifies to Austria’s interest in being Ukraine’s key partner even under tough crisis conditions”, A. Maculan, chairman of the board of director of Maculan Holding, Kiev Airport City project partner, said.

The main goal of the business forum, i.e. enhancement of bilateral Austrian and Ukrainian economic cooperation, was reached in full, driven by a proper format of the event, a broad range of the points on the agenda and a large number of participants – 200 representatives of Austrian and Ukrainian governmental and business circles. The Austrian delegation was represented by the companies which work in such industries as development and construction, pharmaceutics, publishing, consulting, marketing and PR, foreign trade, logistic, etc.

“Austrian investors have always attached special interest to Ukraine’s commercial real estate market and today we hope the Austrian partners’ participation in development process will give the projects with a carefully thought-out concept a chance to be accomplished and absorbed by the market despite the crisis phenomena in Ukraine’s commercial real estate market”, R. Oleksenko, DEOL Partners Managing Partner, pointed out.

“The Austrian businessmen showed their willingness to invest into Ukraine and take advantage of favorable preconditions for entering the Ukrainian market, which emerge today”, A. Maculan noted, and added thereafter: “Nowadays the most promising development is about niche projects with a hotel component. At the moment we are working on Kіev Airport City together with DEOL Partners. This project envisions construction of 5 and 4-star hotels run by an international hotel chain operator”.

At the Austrian-Ukrainian business-forum the speeches were made by Heinz Fischer, Federal President of the Republic of Austria, Reinhold Mitterlehner, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Austria, Christoph Leitl, president of the Chamber of Economy of the Republic of Austria, as well as by the Ukrainian officials, namely Victor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine, Bohdan Danylyschin, Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Serhij Skryptschenko, president of the Commercial and Industrial Chamber of Ukraine. Speaking about the mission of this business forum, V. Yuschenko has stressed that it is to establish relations and brisk up a dialog between Ukraine’s and Austria’s business communities. In his turn, H. Fischer has pointed out that Austria is Ukraine’s fourth partner by investment volumes and it is going to develop further cooperation.

The specialized reports on topical issues of bilateral economic cooperation were made at the business forum. Among the topics discussed there, the following ones received special attention: the issues of improving investment climate in Ukraine, currency risk management, project finance, taxation and some legal aspects of entrepreneurship.

Reference

Kiev Airport City www.kievairportcity.com (under development). A mixed use project across the street from Boryspil Airport’s new terminal D. According to the concept, developed by Austrian architecture bureau Moser Architekten, Kiev Airport City project satisfies international standards of airport business parks.

Kiev Airport City is situated on the land plot of 8ha and has 550m of facade along the airport’s access road. The project includes 2 hotels run by international hotel chain operator: 230-room 5-star hotel and 260-room 4-star hotel, convention center, office buildings, retail space and parking for 1230 spaces. Commercial GBA is 115,000 m2.

Project’s partners:
DEOL Partners;
Maculan Holding;
Asamer Holding.

Project’s consultants:
Moser Architekten – architectural concept, the main architect;
Yunakov - the Ukrainian architect;
CB Richard Ellis – a consultant on commercial concept;
PKF Hotelexperts – hotel consultant.

DEOL Partners www.deol-partners.com – Kiev Airport City developer. DEOL Partners is one of the most active development companies in the Ukrainian real estate market. The company’s main areas of business include: real estate development and investment management.

DEOL Partners manages commercial real estate development projects, both alone and in partnership with leading international investors and developers. Our most visible projects include Kiev Airport City, Mall of Ukraine, Leonardo Business Centre and Senator Apartments.

The Company’s partners have been actively working in Ukraine since 1992. DEOL Partners is one of the first Ukrainian companies that have successfully passed accreditation according to international standards of investment management in commercial real estate (CCIM). The Company is a member of the International Institute of Urban Lands (ULI) and the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC).

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