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Business Center "White Square"

White Square Office Center is a Class A office center (see Office Grading) 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, WorldQuant and PricewaterhouseCoopers, but also as a community landmark, largely due to its fountain (which, during the winter holiday season, is covered with a giant Christmas tree), piazza, mix of cafes and restaurants, community-focused events, and its view of the adjacent Nikolai Chudotvorets Church.

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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited , commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a multinational professional services network. Deloitte is one of the "Big Four" accounting organizations and the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of professionals.

McKinsey & Company is an American worldwide management consulting firm. McKinsey has published the McKinsey Quarterly since 1964, funds the McKinsey Global Institute research organization, publishes reports on management topics, and has authored influential books on management.

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Building Specifications

White Square Office Center consists of three buildings - two with 15 storeys and one with 6 storeys - comprising a total of approximately 76,000 square meters of net rentable office area, approximately 3,800 square meters (approx. 41,000 square feet) of net rentable retail area, and roughly 802 parking spaces on 3 levels of underground parking.

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View through 3rd Lesnoy Lane

Development & Management

White Square Office Center was co-developed by AIG/Lincoln and Coalco, as the first phase of the White District development. Its construction was completed in 2009, while the second, final phase of White District, the adjacent White Gardens Office Center, was completed in 2013.

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.

White Gardens

White Gardens Office Center is a Class A office center 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 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 Office Center was designed by APA Wojciechowski Architects and ABD Architects.

In 2013 the office centre was acquired by O1 Properties, the deal was named the largest involving single asset throughout the history of Russian commercial real estate market.

Occupiers

Notable multinational office occupiers of the office center include: BNP Paribas, Deloitte, McKinsey & Company, WorldQuant or PricewaterhouseCoopers. Meanwhile, the office center's street level houses, amongst others, such well-known cafes and restaurants as: Coffeemania, The Hudson Bar, Le Pain Quotidien, Starbucks, Osteria della Piazza Bianca and Torro Grill. In addition, the street level offers amenities such as banks, a dry cleaner, a L'Occitane en Provence cosmetics shop and Pandora store.

BNP Paribas French bank and financial services company

BNP Paribas S.A. is a French international banking group. It is the world's 8th largest bank by total assets, and currently operates with a presence in 77 countries. It was formed through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas in 2000, but has a corporate identity stretching back to its first foundation in 1848 as a national bank. It is one of three major international French banks, along with Société Générale and Crédit Agricole. The group is listed on the first market of Euronext Paris and a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index, while it also included in the French CAC 40 index.

WorldQuant

WorldQuant, LLC is an international hedge fund and quantitative investment management firm headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Founded in 2007, the firm is currently managing approximately $5 billion in assets under management for Millennium Management via quantitative trading and other methods of quantitative investing. WorldQuant operates the WorldQuant Challenge, where participants compete in the field of quantitative finance, and WorldQuant Accelerator, an independent portfolio manager platform. In 2015 the WorldQuant Foundation launched WorldQuant University.

PricewaterhouseCoopers professional services networks

PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network with headquarters in London, United Kingdom. PwC ranks as the second largest professional services firm in the world and is one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG.

Awards

White Square won the Commercial Real Estate Moscow "Development of the Year" award in 2010, the same year it earned its co-developers - AIG/Lincoln and Coalco - "Developer of the Year" awards. [1]

White Square also won the "City for All" award in 2010 from the Moscow government in recognition of having the best handicapped access among the city's office centers and commercial properties.

In 2013 the office centre won The Moscow Times Awards in Best office centre category.

Community Events

White Square regularly hosts community-focused events and attractions, which in the past have included: a flower market to celebrate 1 September, or "Knowledge Day"; an ice labyrinth; concerts; art and photography exhibitions; and an Easter light projection show on the walls of Nikolai Chudotvorets Church, which helped raise funds for children's charity organizations.

Knowledge Day

Knowledge Day, often simply called 1 September, is the day when the school year traditionally starts in Russia and many other former Soviet republics as well as other countries in the former Eastern Bloc and Israel.

In 2014 a "White City" sculpture composition by well-known Russian artist Georgy Frangylian was opened on the territory of the office centre. Seven stainless steel figures of men and women representing typical Muscovites are standing in the pedestrian alleys.

There is also The White Square Journal - local Moscow magazine with a special emphasis on Russian establishment, entertainment, politics, business and economics of the White District, Moscow International Business Center and Rublyovka.

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Location & Access

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"White Square" and Church of Saint Nicholas

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

It has two street addresses: Building A is located at Butyrsky Val Street 10, while Buildings B and C are located at Lesnaya Street 5.

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

White Square 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 Square to the Paveletskaya Metro station, which in turn has a direct Aeroexpress train link to Domodedovo International Airport, Russia's largest airport.

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References

  1. "Commercial Real Estate Moscow".

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