OREANDA-NEWS. On 09 July 2008 was announced, that Moscow City Mayor Yuri Luzhkov decided to launch the construction of City-2 when the Moscow international business centre Moskva-City has been built.

“We don’t scorn the modern construction. We are currently completing Moskva-City, next year we are to commission the central core where the retail and entertaining complexes as well as a large hall for pop performances are located in,” Mr Luzhkov told journalists on July 9.

However, according to the official, the work on the project MIBC Moskva-City won’t stop.

“We will create City-2 set to be located upstream against the Moskva River,” Mr Luzhkov said.

The city mayor of Moscow specified that City-2 would be placed on the plot where the industrial areas and uncomfortable dwelling houses were located and which were to be removed from there.

“We will clear the area but with no reduction of jobs at the industrial enterprises,” Mr Luzhkov promised.