What is the state of the Light Industrial market in the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg? Where is it better to build production and storage facilities today? Why does the Leningrad Region have exceptional competitive advantages in this regard? What prevents the rapid development of the popular segment in the Nevsky agglomeration? All these issues were discussed by the participants of the round table organized by the newspaper Delovoy Peterburg.
Within the framework of the event, all the nuances of the topic were considered: from rental rates, the cost and volume of land sales, to the urban planning requirements imposed on them, and the conditions for the implementation of new projects in the regions. Anastasia Mikhalchenko, Director of the Agency, spoke about the regional projects of the Light Industrial format, which are being accompanied by the GKU "AERO".
According to the director of the Economic Development Agency, 33 investment projects for the creation of industrial parks in the Leningrad region have been registered in the Investor's Personal Account CRM system over the past 2.5 years. Most belong to the Vsevolozhsk district. The territorial planning scheme of the Leningrad Region includes information on 20 industrial parks (11 operating, 5 under construction, 4 planned).
"Demand is high and outstrips supply. Last year, 90 companies applied to AERO for the selection of land plots, most of them from St. Petersburg. Moreover, 16 companies or 18% of those who applied were interested in obtaining land for the creation of warehouse complexes and industrial parks," Anastasia Mikhalchenko noted.
The expert recalled the support measures provided to companies in accordance with regional law No. 52-oz.:
exemption from payment of corporate property tax in respect of industrial infrastructure facilities (for 10 years);
provision of rent benefits for the use of land plots owned by the Leningrad region.
However, in order to receive benefits, the company must enter the register of industrial parks of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and obtain the official status of an industrial park in the Leningrad Region, and this will be helped by AERO.
"The main tool for supporting investors in the region, along with preferential tax legislation, remains the support of investment projects in a single window mode using the Customer-centric Green Corridor for Investors system. Companies receive support at any stage of the investment project implementation: from site selection to commissioning," Anastasia Mikhalchenko emphasized.
At the end of the business agenda of the round table, a tour of the modern Business Hub designed to accommodate small and medium-sized businesses was conducted for its participants.
