About this informed entrepreneur and founder of UNIT.City Vasyl Khmelnytskyi, who the day before had a meeting with the mayor Andrii Sadov.
"We are considering the option of creating an industrial park here, so that our productions do not go abroad, but remain in Ukraine and create jobs in our country," he said.
The industrial zone "Sygnivka" is considered as a potential location of the industrial park.
Vasyl Khmelnytskyi, the founder of the UNIT.City innovation park, and Andriy Sadovy, the head of Lviv, near the Signivka industrial zone. Photo: Vasyl Khmelnytskyi/ Facebook
According to Roman Staretskyi, head of the investment department of the LMR, the arrangement of a complex of enterprises in this territory will provide an opportunity creation of about 6 thousand jobs. In addition, direct income to the city budget will amount to "approximately UAH 78 million from personal income tax."
The territory of the industrial zone "Sygnivka". Photo: Your City
It is worth noting that the UDP development company, whose investor is Vasyl Khmelnytskyi's UFuture holding, is engaged in the development of Ukrainian innovation parks.
In particular, they created the UNIT.City innovation park on the territory of the former Kyiv Motorcycle Plant, which provides space for rapid growth and partnerships for modern technology companies.
This is what the UNIT.City innovation park in Kyiv looks like. Photo: UNIT.City
As of 2021, there were 110 resident companies on the territory of UNIT.City. For the development of Ukrainian startups, laboratories, business campuses and co-working spaces have been set up here, as well as investment funds that provide for grant and mentoring programs, in particular from Amazon and Berkeley University.
Later, UNIT.City opened the UNIT.Factory programming school and co-working space in Kharkiv and was involved in the implementation of the LvivTech.City innovation park project, the first business campus of which opened in December 2021.
The campus of the LvivTech.City innovation park, which was opened in December 2021. Photo: LvivTech.City
By the way, Lviv park became the best multifunctional development project in Ukraine according to the European Property Awards 2020-2021.
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