Smolensk Shoe Factory Began Working on the Phoenix Industrial Park`s Site
Smolensk Shoe Factory LLC, which is the Phoenix state industrial park`s resident, began developing the land plot. Currently, there is fencing the building land, and constructing a construction camp. In addition, there is carried out connection to power supply networks of the construction site.
According to the investor, the general contractor for construction and installation works, which now forms a project roadmap for interaction with the managing company and work on the site, has already been identified.
“The factory we are constructing has no analogues in Russia, as we will produce shoes using new technologies from polyurethane, not rubber or polyvinyl chloride,” told Ekaterinа Tokareva, General Director of Smolensk Shoe Factory LLC. “At the moment we are maintaining all planned schedules for construction dates. Interaction with administrative bodies is under work. Now we are preparing all necessary documents for obtaining a construction permit in the Administration of the Smolensk city. There are plans to launch the plant and release first products in the first quarter of 2022.”
It should be recalled that Smolensk Shoe Factory became a resident of the Phoenix state industrial park in September 2019, having presented the factory`s construction project for producing rubber shoes at the meeting of the Commission on Investment Policy of the Administration of the Smolensk Region. The total volume of investments will exceed 172 million rubles without VAT and will allow creating over 80 new jobs. The operating`s start is planned for the first quarter of 2022.
The total area of the Phoenix industrial park is 82.5 ha and is fully ready for the industrial facilities` construction: there has been built power plant, and has been provided gas supply, water supply and sewerage. On behalf of the Governor of the Smolensk Region Alexey Ostrovsky, land lease is free for the park`s residents for the whole period of construction; the plots themselves are provided without bidding, and after the facility`s start-up, their repurchase value is 25% of the cadastral value. For the first 10 years there is no property tax, land and transport tax, and the income tax is only 16.5%.
