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Kyiv Investment Forum


The Kyiv Investment Forum, organized by Kyiv City Administration and the Foundation for Effective Governance in partnership with the Financial Times, will be a platform for a dialogue among representatives of the national and international business community and high-ranking officials.

Confirmed Speakers Include:

- Oleksandr Popov, Chairman, Kyiv City State Administration
- Sergey Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow
- Dr. Mohammad Zahoor, Founder and Chairman, ISTIL Group
- Andre Kuusvek, Director, EBRD
- Natalia Yaresko, Founding Partner and CEO, Horizon Capital

Key Topics Include:

-Facilitating dialogue between municipal authorities and business
-Presentation of key city projects requiring investment
-Overview of Kyiv city potential and analytical review of key investment areas


          Most interesting key city projects:


         "Kyiv-City" is project of international business district. This project provides polycentric urban development and modern business area outside the historic center of the capital - approach jobs to places of residence. The project of creation "Kyiv-City" approved part of the national project "Future City" and included in the State Register of national projects.
         As previously reported, to accommodate the district considered five areas ranging from 100 hectares to 240 hectares, which lets create for each of them balanced multifunctional complex, which meets the requirements of sustainable development.
         It is estimated the project invovles attracting foreing investment of 2.1 billion USD.


         Project of parking lots. "Kyivtransparkservise" has developed an investment plan that includes three components: constraction of multi-intercepting surface parking at the entrance to the capital, construction of underground parking in downtown and in the "sleeping" area.
         It is expected that new parking will greatly relieve the central line and remove cars from the streets.
         Note that at present the need for parking in Kiev is more than 300 thousand cars.
         Also among the key city projects remains construction of the fourth subway line and business park "BIONIC Hill".

Ukrainian Cities are among the Best for Investments


The European Cites & Regions of the Future 2012/13 awards ceremony took place on March 7th during the MIPIM – the largest real estate show in Cannes, France. The awards were based on the ranking, created by the fDi Intelligence, a unit of Financial Times, the most influential foreign direct investments publication in the world.
More than ten Ukrainian cities received a rank in the TOP-10  in the Eastern Europe, among them – Kyiv, Lviv, Odessa, Dnipropetrovs’k and others. Three Ukrainian regions have also been ranked high – Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv and Lviv oblasts.
The fDi Magazine publishes ranking of the best cities and regions for attracting foreign investments since 2001. This year, the ranking compares 253 European cities using the data under 6 categories: economic potential, human resources, cost effectiveness, quality of life, infrastructure and business friendliness.

Ukrainian cities in the European Cities and Regions of the Future 2012/2013:
TOP 10 Eastern European Cities with Best FDI Strategy
Lviv – 4  place
TOP 10 Major cities: Cost effectiveness
Kharkiv – 1 place
Dnipropetrovsk – 2 place
TOP 10 Small cities: Cost effectiveness
Mykolaiv – 1 place
TOP 10 Large cities: Cost effectiveness
Odessa – 2 place
Lviv – 3 place
Kyiv – 7 place
TOP 10 Micro cities: Cost effectiveness
Ternopil – 1 place
Berdyansk – 2 place
Truskavets – 3 place
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskiy – 4 place
Drogobych – 8 place
Rivne – 10 place
TOP 10 Eastern regions – FDI strategy
Zaporizhzhya – 7 place