Skolkovo to Get New Tech Parks, Metro, and Medical Facilities
Moscow's Skolkovo innovation center will see major development with new tech parks, medical facilities, sports complexes, and expanded transport infrastructure, including a metro extension. The project includes 2.7 million square meters of new construction and aims to boost scientific, medical, and creative industries.
Consensus
- The project plan for Skolkovo covers over 400 hectares.
- Approximately 2.7 million square meters of new real estate will be built in Skolkovo.
- The development includes tech parks, R&D centers, laboratories, and business complexes.
- A new tech park on Nobel Street will be over 25,000 square meters and six stories tall.
- The tech park will feature smooth facades with wing-like elements and use primarily domestic materials.
- The surrounding area will be landscaped and greened.
- A multi-functional sports complex with a children's hockey school for 300 athletes is under construction.
- The Filievskaya line of the Moscow Metro will be extended from Kuntsevskaya to Skolkovo.
- The metro extension will pass through four districts: Filievskoye-Davydkovo, Kuntsevo, Okhotovo-Matveevskoye, and Mozhaitskoye.
- Five new metro stations will be built along the extension.
- The construction of the oncology hospital No. 62 and a guest apartment hotel has been completed.
- Three express bus routes have been launched to connect the hospital with metro stations Voiykovskaya and Strogino, and the village of Istra in Krasnogorsk.
Points of divergence
- The first phase of the video game and animation cluster is already operational, with the second phase—media technology cluster—expected to open soon. — mn
- A new public space of about 3 hectares has recently appeared in Skolkovo, suitable for both active and quiet recreation. — m24
Coverage (2 sources)
- «Skolkovo» awaits large-scale development: tech parks, laboratories and metro will appear — Московские новости
- Sobyanin: New tech parks, medical college and sports complex will appear in Skolkovo — Москва 24
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