Awards

The DEOL Partners team is proud to win Premier Real Estate Awards, which are among the most prestigious in Russia and the CIS. Europaproperty.com’s recognition of our projects proves yet again that our attempt to be the most innovative and progressive real estate company, one that’s helping to open up the market’s most promising niches, has been successful. Our real estate projects, like Senator Apartments and Leonardo Business Centre, have become stand-out leaders in their particular segments. Our team worked very hard and enthusiastically on these projects, and we’re happy that an independent jury of 18 top real estate professionals appreciated our work,” said Ruslan Oleksenko, Managing Partner of DEOL Partners.

The Senator Apartments chain received a Special Commendation at the Russia & CIS Premier Real Estate Award ceremony: It was the only project in Russia and the CIS to be nominated in the serviced apartments sphere.

Leonardo Business Centre has won a Russia & CIS Premier Real Estate Award. The award was established by Europaproperty.com and is given every year to the most outstanding and accomplished projects, firms, and individuals in commercial real estate.

Leonardo Business Centre also received a Premier Award in the best office centre category. Among the candidates for the award were Kiev’s Parus and Iceberg office facilities. The grand opening of Leonardo Phase II took place in Kiev on 6 December 2007.

Leonardo Business Centre was recognized as the best office real estate project at the CP Awards 2008. DEOL Partners nominated two objects for competition prizes – Phase II of the Leonardo Business Centre and the Senator Apartments Executive Court serviced apartments complex.

Leonardo Business Centre confirmed its status as Kiev’s most prestigious business centre, receiving a Premier Award as the best project in the office real estate segment for 2007. Senator Apartments Executive Court, a DEOL Partners development project, was nominated in the hotel real estate segment along with the Hyatt Regency Sofiya Kievska and the Riviera Hotel.

“We take an extremely scrupulous approach to selecting the projects we’re going to work with. That’s why our projects become deserving leaders in their niches. Thus Leonardo Business Centre won a Premier Award as the best office centre for 2007 in the Ukrainian office real estate category at the Premier Russia & CIS Real Estate Awards in London. Senator Apartments Executive Court was also honoured as the only representative of the serviced apartments niche in Ukraine,” said Ruslan Oleksenko, Managing Partner of DEOL Partners.

The CP Awards 2008 ceremony was a central event for the professional community of the Ukrainian commercial real estate market. It gathered almost all the leading companies and honoured all of Ukraine’s significant projects and real estate objects.

The level of organization and the quantity of the nominees at the CP Awards 2008 (40 objects were nominated in nine categories) is the best evidence of the fact that the Ukrainian market is reaching a new stage in its development – it is characterised by transparency, free competition, a strong commercial base, and top-quality architecture.

In spring 2006 Leonardo Business Centre Phase I was successfully sold to the Irish investment company Quinn Group. DEOL Partners performed transaction support for the sale and was also the exclusive leasing agent for the business centre’s first phase.

”This was a serious strategic achievement for us. The deal was considered the largest investment sale ever on Ukraine’s commercial real estate market. That’s an indication of the level and quality of the services our experts provide. Without a doubt, they meet Western criteria and Western standards. It is very important that Ukraine’s office and shopping real estate market be characterised by objects of European quality. From the architectural point of view, they must conform to international standards, and they ought to be positioned that way in the market. We consider Leonardo not just a space defined by a certain number of square metres, but as an investment product that generates steady income,” said Ruslan Oleksenko, Managing Partner of DEOL Partners.

A class A business centre, Leonardo is located in the heart of Kiev’s historical downtown, at the corner of Khmelnytskoho and Volodymyrska Streets. The excellent site, with its convenient traffic intersection and elegant neighbourhood, including the National Opera of Ukraine right across the street, makes Leonardo a unique real estate object. Its seven floors contain a total area of 23,155 square metres, including premium-class office and shopping premises, boardrooms, a conference hall, and an elite fitness club.

The Mall of Ukraine was chosen one of the best five projects of the MAPIC 2008 exhibition and won the chance to present its concept at the Speed Matching investment conference on 19 November 2008. Moreover, the Mall of Ukraine was the only Ukrainian project in the exhibition’s Top 5.

"MAPIC for us was an important event, one that we prepared a long time for. Our aim is to attract up to 60 percent of international trade operators, most of which are not yet present on the Ukrainian market, to the Mall of Ukraine. That’s why presenting the Mall of Ukraine at one of the most prestigious exhibitions in the world is a key marketing strategy element in developing the project,” says Maryna Rymarenko, Strategic Development Director of DEOL Partners.

Mall of Ukraine, the country’s first superregional shopping and entertainment centre, was recognized as the best project of the year at MALL Expo 2008. The final ceremony was held on 19 September 2008 during the first MALL Expo international exhibition in Kiev.

DEOL Partners is the developer of and the managing company for the Mall of Ukraine.

“Mall of Ukraine represents a new stage in the development of the Ukrainian retail market: it’s nothing less than a ’city within a city.’ That superregional shopping and leisure centres have started appearing in our country is the logical consequence of retail market development, of the formation of a mature consumer market, of real income growth among the population, and of retailers’ need for retail spaces of high quality. As the developer of the project, DEOL Partners is proud to receive MALL Expo’s recognition. It is a testament to our innovative retail development strategy,” comments Maryna Rymarenko, Strategic Development Director of DEOL Partners.