Type Office Completed 2007 Antenna spire 156 m (512 ft) Height 136 m, 156 m to tip Opened 2008 Architect A. Komarovskiy | Cost ca. $100,000,000 Roof 136 m (446 ft) Floors 34 Construction started 2004 | |
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Owners Heritage Properties International AB, Mandaryn Plaza Ltd Similar Gulliver, Klovska, Palats Sportu, Kiev Pechersk Lavra, St Andrew's Church - K | ||
The Parus Business Centre (Ukrainian: Бізнес Центр «Парус») is a 34-story class-A office building in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is located at the very centre of the city, between Mechnikova St. and Lesi Ukrainky Blvd. (municipal address: 2, Mechnikova St.) and is currently the second highest building in the country.
Map of Parus Business Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Construction of the building began in 2004, and ended in February 2007. Apart from its main office use 50,400 m2 (543,000 sq ft), the property features some 2,400 m2 (26,000 sq ft) of retail space and around 2,700 m2 (29,000 sq ft) of cafes and restaurants. There is also a 4-story underground parking garage with a capacity for 300 cars.
While still on the construction stage, the project was also known as "Elsburg Plaza" (Ukrainian: «Ельсбург Плаза»), but was later renamed to "Parus" (literally translated as "sail") ostensibly because of building's oval-like shape, resembling sail of a ship.
In July 2008, Kontrakty, Ukrainian business weekly, rated top 10 most expensive offices in Kiev. Parus was top of the chart in terms of annual rental income, which stood at some $50 million.
Major tenants at Parus include McKinsey & Company, Concorde Capital, an investment bank; TNK-BP, an oil company; Olimp, Ukrainian spirits company; Delin Development, a real estate development company; Interpipe, steel pipes producer and others. Colliers International, a commercial real estate services company, was an exclusive leasing agent for Parus.
Parus was developed and is owned by "Mandaryn Plaza Ltd." (Ukrainian: ЗАТ «Мандарин Плаза»), a joint-stock company, prominent for its homonymous high-end shopping center in the center of Kiev. In September 2007, Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian businessman, bought a 50% stake in Mandaryn Plaza Ltd. through his company Heritage Properties International AB.