Lisnyi shopping centre instead of forest: authorities unveil development project near Kyoto park in Kyiv

The project proposes building on the area near Lisova metro station, destroying part of the green plantings.

The Desnianska district state administration published a project proposal for building the Lisnyi shopping and entertainment centre, planned between Brovarskyi Avenue and Kyoto Street in Kyiv.

The project proposes building on 7.2 hectares near Lisova metro station. The total area of the shopping and entertainment centre will reach 300 thousand square metres. At present, about half of the site earmarked for development — is green plantings.

The centre itself is to have a food hypermarket and an industrial hypermarket, a cinema, food courts, entertainment and retail areas, and a rooftop park. Nearby are the Lisnyi bus station and a nine-storey car park.

Construction of a multifunctional shopping and entertainment centre near Lisova metro station, commissioned by LLC Zhensan, in the Desnianska district state administration was reported at the end of last week. As the territory from Kyoto park to Murmanska Street is fenced off, local residents find it difficult to reach transport. The district administration then agreed to remove informal trading, repair the road at the entrance to the underground passage, install signs, set up handrails for passengers at the entrances to Lisova metro station  and arrange lighting for pedestrian paths in the evening.

The project for the new shopping centre, dated 16 February 2018, was published on Friday, 13 September. A few days earlier, on 10 September, a fire broke out in a forest area in the district of the future development. According to information from the State Emergency Service, trees and grass cover over an area of 1 hectare caught fire on Brovarska Street, 3. Also, one hectare of grass cover burned on the territory of the forest park economy of Desnianskyi district on Kubanskoi Ukrainy Street. Both fires were extinguished within a few hours.

Last year, unknown persons destroyed about 300 pine trees in the forest near Lisova metro station. As Segodnya reports, holes were found in the trunks, into which a chemical substance was presumably poured, and it is this that killed the trees.