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Moscow to turn government offices into hotels
Tuesday February 14, 2012 10:56:03 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: In
a bid to decongest the city centre, the Moscow city government
plans to turn federal government offices based there into hotels
after the offices move to outlying areas under a city expansion
plan.
Many federal officials go to work by car in the morning, creating
traffic problems in the city centre. They have to leave their cars
in by-streets near their place of work or near the curbs due to
lack of parking lots.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin told the Vechernaya Moskva evening
newspaper that apartment owners and hotel visitors would make less
transportation bogs than government officials.
"I think we should make apartments and hotels there," Sobyanin
said.
He said the buildings currently occupied by ministries and various
agencies could be "one of the promising ways for investment". The
buildings could be upgraded to include underground parking.
Sobyanin said there would be three times more operating hotels in
2012 compared to last year.
The city government will also support the opening of low-cost
hotels.
The TripAdvisor international tourist web portal said Moscow
ranked fourth in a list of the 15 fastest growing tourist
destinations in January.
City hotel prices, however, were estimated as the most expensive
among European capitals.
Hotel prices in Moscow grew 8.35 percent in 2011 compared to 2010.
President Dmitry Medvedev has suggested adding 144,000 hectares of
the western, southwestern and southern areas near Moscow to create
a new federal region. Under Medvedev's proposal, the Russian
government offices would move to the new areas to improve
transportation flow in the capital.
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