5th anniversary of Mall Expo had grown to the birth of the new project CITY EXPO

Elena Vdovenko, Mall Expo organizer showed her thankfulness to all participants who supported her during all 5 years and announced about the transformation into the new global project devoted to the development of real estate and territories.

press-conference moderator Marina Krestinina, head of the consulting and analytic of the real estate services department of the company "Ernst and Young" in Ukraine, told about the situation on the market of trade real estate, it's influence on the economy and introduced Ruslan Lavrinenlo, commercial director of "Megapoliszhilstroy" (builder and investor of the TEC "Respublika"); Maksim Gavrushin, commercial director of the company "Bud House Group"  (developer in segments of trade, office, hotel and country real estate); Alexander Lebedev, commercial director of the company "Tri O" (MFC Gulliver, Sportivnaya square,1).

The second by rating event during the Summit became the presentation of the global brand Kidzania which was done by Andrew Darrow, brand development vice-president. Mr Darrow had negotiated with about 10 potential partners, sent his thankfulness to organizers for the invitation and highly evaluated the level of the exhibition organization. Also Mr Darrow is sure that Kidzania has perspective of the development in Ukraine.

This year British company Sarner took part in the exhibition for the first time - established leader on the world market of projecting and creation of Entertainment objects. Ross Magri presented the master-class for developers and evaluated the Ukrainian market as young and perspective.

The special pride of the exhibition and "magnet" for journalists and tenants had become the stand of "Bud House Group" company - one of the most dynamic growing developers on the Ukrainian market which portfolio has a lot of projects on the stage of realization and projecting.

This title company received on the ceremony City Awards at the evening of the same date.

Participants had fixed the difficult situation on the market, small number of projects which are on the stage of the real constructing, lack of financing and new operators expansion.

Market stagnation had pended organizers to the re conception all exhibition projects into the one: «We were proceeded during several years and it was dictated of the project maturity, position of most part of participants and market situation, which needs new investors and players. Mall Expo can't decide these issues at the moment because of its limitation which are proper to the sectoral events. Figurative to say the chrysalis should become the butterfly. Exhibition-congress City Expo will unit developers of different directions - home, trade, office, hotel and should become the stage for the international communications of the highest level and mechanism of the influence on the development process. Several organizers will work under one brand and that will help us to manage such complicate task. Last years City Summit was successfully done and at the same year we've added the segment of home real estate and for the third year we are realizing the competition of leaders of the field City Awards» - said Elena Vdovenko.

The ceremony City Awards had become the culmination of the evening program, and jury representatives Yaroslava Chapko and Maria Mironkina gave awards to leaders of the market.

The new stars came to the market of trade real estate: the most prestigious project of the business complex TEC GULLIVER and the most large-scale super regional TEC of Ukraine Respublika. Regional project Nikolskiy in Kharkiv, Zebra in Odesa, Eko Mall in Lugansk, Port City in Mariupol became the best in their categories. The best dynamic developer on the market of trade real estate became "Bud Hause Group".

In the section "home projects" the best in their categories had become "Pokrovskiy Posad", "Bouldvard Fontanov", "Zverenetskiy", "Yaskravyy", "Grunvald", cottage town "Medvezhiy". The company "NEST" was mentioned as "the most trusty home real estate developer".