March 2012
STEP has started restoring four floors in the AZIMUT Hotel St. Petersburg (former Sovetskaya Hotel). All works are to be finished under a tight schedule. The newly restored rooms should be ready to receive guests in early summer, 2012. The working area is 4,400 square meters.
The area of the Gestamp Severstal Vsevolozhsk plant, which produces car parts, has been successfully enlarged. As a result the manufacturing facility has been expanded from 16,000 to 23,000 square meters. Installation of an assembly line for auto body parts supplies for the Nissan plant in St. Petersburg has been started in the additional floor space.
February 2012
STEP and OOO Regional Hotel Chain (RHC) signed a contract for the construction of a new hotel in the future Olympic host city of Sochi. The three-star Park Inn Sochi hotel will be erected in the center of Sochi, near the railway station. The future hotel will have an area of 9.7 thousand sq. m, with 147 rooms. It will open its doors in 2013 under the management of the international hotel operator The Rezidor Hotel Group.
January 2012
Some changes took place in STEP’s Mining construction department, resulting in Dmitry Gershon's appointment as commercial director. His obligations will include forming a business development strategy, negotiating with customers, expanding the client base, and signing new contracts.
STEP has finished its project for creating a new office for the St. Petersburg representative office of ABB international group in the Helsingfors Business Center on the Vyborgskaya Embankment. The area of the office space constitutes 950 sq. m.
Work on the new Volkonsky Keizer coffee and pastry bar has been finished. The café, with area of 150 sq. m, is situated in the center of St. Petersburg at the intersection of Nevsky prospect and the Moika River Embankment. Specialists of STEP's Reconstruction and Fit-Out department have executed design, construction, engineering, painting and fit-out of the cafe.