Tashir Group Announces Opening of Raikin Plaza

September 19, Tashir Group will celebrate the official opening of the new shopping and entertainment centre Raikin Plaza within the Raikin Center of Culture, Art and Leisure. The project brokerage took place during construction; thanks to that, by the technical commissioning date, 95% spaces had signed tenant contracts, and by the grand opening, vacancy was no more than 15%. The mall’s GBA is 70K sq m. Investments in Raikin Center of Culture, Art and Leisure total about 8 billion rubles.

Raikin Plaza shopping and entertainment centre was built within a very tight timeframe of less than eighteen months. The new mall is located right next to Mariina Roscha metro station, five minutes by car from the Garden Ring. The mall’s catchment area includes about 1.5 million citizens which suggests traffic of 25K+ people on weekdays and 40K+ people on weekends. For visitors’ comfort, a two-level underground parking lot is in place along with an aboveground one, both spacey enough for a total of 800 cars.

The four shopping levels feature leading international and federation-wide retailers. Raikin Plaza hosts 150 stores, 8 restaurants, 3 cafés, 7 food court operators, a 5-hall cinema, kids' entertainment centre, and much more.
The mall’s anchors include supermarket Perekrestok, home electronic appliances store Eldorado, kids’ goods supermarket Korablik, a two-level fashion store H&M, department store Marks&Spencer and adidas brand centre.

The ground floor shopping gallery is of special interest, being rich with popular fashion brands of medium+ level, e.g. Marella, Lacoste, Nautica, Cacharel, Baldinini, Tous, Pandora, Rendez-Vouz, Meucci, Ile de Beaute, and more. Home goods gallery is also notable and includes famous brands like Cook House, Togas, Eurodom, Interiernaya Lavka and Williams & Oliver. The mall also stands strong in kids’ concept featuring 12 stores, e.g. Gap Kids, Imaginarium, Lego, Chicco, De Salitto and others.

The entertainment component of the project includes a five-hall Cinema Star cinema, Play Lab kids’ entertainment centre and a food court. Plaza includes three cafés: Lavazza, Dunkin’ Donuts and Shokoladnitsa. The restaurants include Il Patio, Planet Sushi, Tamozhnya Daet Dobro beer restaurant, Coffee Tun, and Etaj.

Andrey Ilyaev, Vice President, Tashir Group, notes: “Raikin Plaza is a very special shopping centre within Tashir Group’s real estate portfolio. Being part of the unique Raikin Center of Culture, Art and Leisure, it has become more than a commercial project for us; it is our contribution to culture and education development and to Russia’s capital improvement.”

Behind Raikin Plaza, there is a park that Tashir Group has landscaped, adding an outdoor play set for kids. Concerts, exhibitions and holiday events are planned to be held there for the locals.