Developers have opened 33% of the total planned area of ??shopping centers

In 2008, developers planned to build 20 shopping centers with a total area of ??more than 1.5 million sq ft, the newspaper Vedomosti. However, due to financial crisis was open 33% of planned (seven points total area of ??500,000 square meters. m), according to an annual study of Colliers International. It particularly states that have opened in the area are mostly small objects. Among the major facilities that are not put into operation - "Metropolis" (205 000 sq. km. m) on the Leningrad highway, a shopping center on the Vavilov Street (202 000 sq. km. m) and Hudson (145,000 square meters. m) Kashirskoye. "As for the objects that will be put into operation in 2009, it is mostly the projects that have been declared for the preceding year and for various reasons have not come to market. The probability of discovery of these projects is large enough, due to the fact that they are in the final stages of implementation and the lease "- the study says.