Tashir opens a new RIO mall in New Moscow

Tashir Group has opened its 22nd RIO shopping and entertainment centre within the largest federal network. The project took less than two years to complete, with investments totaling USD 100 mln.

RIO in Rumyantsevo with the GBA of approx. 70K sq m is located at the largest transport junction in New Moscow, near the vibrant Kievskoye Highway. Experts suggest the four-level complex will greet an average of up to a million guests per month. The new mall is perfectly accessible at 1.5km from the Moscow Ring Road and close to Vnukovo international airport. The centre offers free ground and roofed parking lots to host a total of 1,033 cars.

Sarkis Karapetyan, First Vice President, Tashir Group, notes: “We have managed to maintain our previous years’ trend of growth in commercial real estate development. In 2015, we commissioned about 210K sq m of four large-scale projects in Moscow, Sochi, and Tver. RIO in Rumyantsevo, the network’s new, bold flagship object, is among them.”

The four retail levels of the new RIO are taken by about 150 tenants. Over 70% shops are already open. All retail spaces will be fully functional by March, 2016. Anchor tenants include Lenta food hypermarket, H&M, Lady & Gentleman City, Goood’s House (Tashir Group’s new concept for household goods and accessories), six-hall Cinema Star multiplex, kids’ entertainment centre PlayLab, Fizika fitness centre, etc. Some of the other RIO tenants are Kira Plastinina, L’Etoile, Yves Rocher, and many more.

The mall features two Tashir premieres, 36.6 pharmacy hypermarket and Take Away department store, part of Tashir’s new retail project. The department store with the GBA of 15K sq m is mainly medium segment and divided into four theme zones, retail, entertainment, kids’ and leisure, all of them perfectly fitting in the designer loft space.

The core of Take Away collections are over 75 conceptual international and Russian brands that include mass market, medium and medium plus levels, e.g. Scotch & Soda, JS Selected, Cop.Copine, Mezzatorre, adidas, Reebok, Respublica, AG Wear, Tom Tailor, Zarina, Incity, Ecco, UNO, Sultanna Frantsuzova, BGN and many more. Take Away loyalty card offers discounts for new collections. The food court zone features both famous chains, e.g. McDonald’s, KFC and Hard Wok, and gastro fast food operators like Crab & Caviar and Gelman.

To keep the guests comfortable, free of charge shuttle buses start to RIO Mall from Tyoply Stan, Yugo-Zapadnaya and Troparyovo metro stations. As soon as 2016, new Sokolnicheskaya line metro stations Salarievo and Rumyantsevo are scheduled to be commissioned next to the mall.