White Gardens

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White Gardens
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General information
StatusComplete
TypeOffice
Location7 & 9 Lesnaya Street, Moscow 125047
Coordinates 55°46′45″N37°35′19″E / 55.77917°N 37.58861°E / 55.77917; 37.58861 Coordinates: 55°46′45″N37°35′19″E / 55.77917°N 37.58861°E / 55.77917; 37.58861
Completed2013
CostUS$750-800 million
Owner Millhouse Capital
Technical details
Floor count
  • Building A: 16 floors
  • Building B: 12 floors
Design and construction
Architecture firmAPA Wojciechowski
DeveloperCoalco Development, AIG/Lincoln
Awards and prizesCommercial Real Estate Moscow Awards 2014 in the category "Best Class-A Business Center" [1]
Other information
Parking960

White Gardens Office Center is a Class A office center (see Office Grading) located next door to White Square Office Center and nearby the Belorusskaya Metro Station in Moscow, Russia. White Gardens consists of two office buildings, comprising a total of approximately 63,000 square meters (approx. 678,000 square feet) of net rentable area, ground floor restaurants and amenities, and five levels of underground parking. Its defining features include private terraces for select office floors and an arcade between its two buildings. White Gardens is the second phase of the White District development, and is expected to be completed in 2013. The first phase of White District, White Square Office Center, was completed in 2009.

White Square

White Square Office Center is a Class A office center located next to the Belorusskaya Metro Station in Moscow, Russia. It is known not only as a business center that houses such multinational companies as Deloitte, McKinsey & Company, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, but also as a community landmark, largely due to its fountain, piazza, mix of cafes and restaurants, community-focused events, and its view of the adjacent Nikolai Chudotvorets Church.

Moscow Capital city of Russia

Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits, 17 million within the urban area and 20 million within the metropolitan area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities.

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Building specifications

White Gardens Office Center consists of two buildings - one with 16 storeys and one with 12 storeys - comprising a total of approximately 60,000 square meters (approx. 646,000 square feet) of net rentable office area, and approximately 3,000 square meters (approx. 32,000 square feet) of net rentable retail area. In addition, it offers five levels of underground parking, providing roughly 960 parking spaces, and a parking ratio of approximately 1 space per 68 square meters of office space.

Development & management

White Gardens Office Center is being co-developed by AIG/Lincoln, Coalco, TPG Capital, and VTB Capital.

AIG/Lincoln

AIG/Lincoln is an international real estate development company that was established in 1997 as a strategic partnership between AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corporation and Lincoln Property Company of Dallas, Texas.

TPG Capital American investment company

TPG Capital is an American investment company. It is one of the largest private equity investment firms in the world, focused on leveraged buyouts and growth capital. TPG also manages investment funds specializing in growth capital, venture capital, public equity, and debt investments. The firm invests in a broad range of industries including consumer/retail, media and telecommunications, industrials, technology, travel/leisure and health care.

VTB Capital is a Russian investment bank. It is one of the three strategic business arms of VTB Group, along with the corporate and retail businesses.

White Gardens Office Center was designed by APA Wojciechowski Architects.

The office center will be managed by AIG/Lincoln, which, in addition to having developed over 2,500,000 square meters of property (approx. 26,910,000 square feet), also manages over 1,480,000 square meters (approx. 15,931,000 square feet) of office, industrial, retail, residential, and entertainment property across Central and Eastern Europe.

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Terraces of the "White Gardens"

Location & access

White Gardens is located near Tverskaya Street and the Belorussky Rail Terminal.

Tverskaya Street thoroughfare in Moscow, Russia

Tverskaya Street, known between 1935 and 1990 as Gorky Street, is the main radial street in Moscow. The street runs Northwest from the central Manege Square in the direction of Saint Petersburg and terminates at the Garden Ring, giving the name to Tverskoy District. The route continues further as First Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, Leningradsky Avenue and Leningradskoye Highway.

It will have two street addresses: Building A will be located at Lesnaya Street 7, while Building B will be located at Lesnaya Street 9.

The office center is located a block away from one of the Circle Line exits from the Belorusskaya Metro Station, which is also linked to the Green Line.

White Gardens is a short walk from the Belorussky Rail Terminal, which provides direct access to Sheremetyevo International Airport via the Aeroexpress train service. Meanwhile, the Green Line provides quick access from White Gardens to the Paveletskaya Metro station, which in turn has a direct Aeroexpress train link to Domodedovo International Airport, Russia's largest airport.

Sheremetyevo International Airport international airport serving Moscow, Russia

Sheremetyevo International Airport is an international airport located in Khimki, Moscow Oblast, Russia, 29 km (18 mi) northwest of central Moscow. It is a hub for passenger operations of the Russian international airline Aeroflot, and is one of the four major airports that serve Moscow. The airport serves a number of international airlines, including Air France, KLM, Korean Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Alitalia, Air China, British Airways, Cham Wings Airlines.

Aeroexpress

Aeroexpress Ltd. is the operator of airport rail link services in Russia. It is founded in 2005 and is owned by Russian Railways (50%), TransGroup AS (25%), Iskander Makhmudov (17.5%), and Andrei Bokarev (7.5%). Until recently, the company only provided the rail transportation services between Moscow rail terminals and Moscow airports. The company previously also provided the rail link services to Kazan's Kazan International Airport, Sochi's Adler Airport, and Vladivostok's Knevichi Airport.

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References

  1. "Office complex - Team". WhiteGardens.ru. Retrieved 20 September 2016.