Marco Polo (hotel)

History

2022: Victor Kharitonin - new owner

At the end of May 2022, bidding ended in Moscow, with the winner of which an agreement will be concluded for the purchase and sale of the five-story building of the Marco Polo Hotel on Patriarchal Ponds. The area of ​ ​ the building is 6 thousand square meters. m Hotel foundation - 75 rooms.

The winner of the auction was Management-Invest LLC, which is associated with the main shareholder of Pharmstandart. Viktor Kharitonin According to the data, Vedomosti the structures and, Sminex Capital Group Silver, which may be associated with, and Masterfest PIC GC LLC, also claimed the object.

Co-owner of Pharmstandard bought the Marco Polo Hotel on Patriarchal Ponds for 2.8 billion rubles

The starting price was 1.64 billion rubles, during the bidding more than 100 "auction steps" were made to increase, the winner was the participant who offered the maximum price - the initial cost increased by more than 60%, to 2.75 billion rubles.

What Management-Invest is going to do with the hotel is not reported by the end of May 2022. Marina Malakhatko, director of the retail department of Core.XP (acted as a consultant to this deal), in a conversation with the newspaper said that the winner of the auction "plans to make an overhaul of this facility, its appointment will be preserved." Experts interviewed by the publication think differently. Most likely, the hotel will be used to accommodate the apartment complex, says Alexey Bogdanov, managing partner of Ricci.

As the head of the Department for Competition Policy, which is part of the Complex of Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations, Ivan Shcherbakov, non-residential real estate sold at city tenders is traditionally in demand among investors. The acquisition of buildings, premises, land plots and other types of commercial real estate directly from the city provides wide opportunities for conducting or expanding business, he added.^[1]

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