IKEA no longer has an apartment in Moscow
The new owner of the office in Khimki may be linked to power tool dealer Interskol.
The Swedish Ingka Centres, which owns the IKEA chain of furniture and home goods stores and the Mega shopping and entertainment centers, has sold the Khimki Business Park office complex (42,000 sq. m.), located on the street. Leningradskaya in Khimki. According to SPARK-Interfax, on June 21, KLS-Khimki became the new owner of a 100% stake in LLC Khimki Business Park. The fact that the Swedish company actually sold this facility, which in recent years was its headquarters, is also known to two consultants who worked with it. A representative of Ingka Centers did not respond to Vedomosti’s request. It was not possible to contact KLS-Khimki. KLS-Khimki, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, is owned by businessmen Grigory Sahakyan (99% stake) and Arkady Danielyan (1%). The first is the former co-owner of Sovereign Bank, whose license was revoked by the Central Bank back in 2016. Now he is developing the Reyouza online store, which sells clothes, home goods and cosmetics.
Sahakyan also holds the position of General Director of JSC Interskol Group, which owned a large brand for the sale of power tools Interskol. At the end of 2021, the share of the Interskol brand in the Russian power tools market was about 5%, according to the Association of Trading Companies and Manufacturers of Power Tools and Small-Scale Mechanization. Last year, Interskol’s revenue amounted to 3.57 billion rubles. A request to Interskol remained unanswered.
Danielyan is a co-owner of A-Finance and A-Basis companies, both of which have a mailbox with the domain of the Avilon car dealer in their SPARK-Interfax profile. However, one of the consultants says that Avilon has many partners and the businessman does not represent the interests of this company in this transaction. It was not possible to contact either Sahakyan or Danielyan.
For what purpose “KLS-Khimki” acquired an office complex in Khimki, it was not possible to find out.
Khimki Business Park was built back in 2007-2008. In relation to the land under this asset, a trial took place for a long time between a subsidiary of the Swedish group and the Khimki collective agricultural enterprise, the owner of which was called billionaire Alexander Klyachin. However, later the court confirmed the rights of the Swedes to this site.
One of the consultants says that Ingka Centers wanted to get a little less than 4 billion rubles for the asset. He also points out that this price could be halved after the approval of the deal by the government commission. Denis Platov, director of the capital markets department at Nikoliers, estimates the market value of the complex at 4–4.2 billion rubles. Partner «Ricci | Offices” Dmitry Zhidkov believes that the cost of 1 sq. m here is about 150,000 rubles. (6.3 billion rubles for the entire facility).
The business center itself may be of interest to end users for whom it is important to be in this direction, either because of the proximity to the Sheremetyevo airport, or because of the presence of production in the area, Platov argues. Mikael Kazaryan, Head of the Capital Markets and Investments Department at IBC Real Estate, calls Khimki Business Park a high-quality office complex. He also recalls that since 2014, not a single large office has been commissioned in Khimki, and no new construction has been announced there yet, so such an object will be of interest to potential tenants.
He also recalls that the asset also includes a plot of 15 hectares. Additional construction is possible on it, so the site may also be of interest to specialized developers.
Ingka Group suspended the work of IKEA stores in March last year. Then she sold her factories in Russia, which produced furniture and materials for shops. Now she is considering the option of selling her 14 Mega shopping centers (in Moscow, Moscow region, Leningrad region, Omsk, Ufa, Rostov, Samara, Adygea, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod), hypermarkets in which IKEA stores operated, and as well as sites on which it was planned, but the construction of new complexes has not yet begun, RBC reported. However, according to Vedomosti sources, a specific contender for these assets is currently hzikhidtidekrt No.