Knight Frank has participated in the conference on retail development

6 December 2007

The Successful Retail Development: Ways to Create a Failsafe Concept of a Shopping and Entertainment Center Conference organized by IM Events took place in Holiday Inn Lesnaya, Moscow, at the end of November 2007. Master classes featuring leading real estate experts were held in St.Petersburg and Chelyabinsk, and the final session took place in Moscow. Maria Kotova, Director of the Professional Services Department, Knight Frank, made a presentation at the conference in Moscow.

Maria's presentation concerned the basic stages for implementing a shopping center project, including search for land, concept development, marketing, brokerage, finance raising, management and investment sale of the property. Typical developers' mistakes at each of these stages were discussed on the example of various trade facilities in Russia and abroad.