Nagatino i-Land, Technology park in Nagatino district, Moscow, Russia.
Nagatino i-Land is a technology park on 32 hectares of the former ZIL factory grounds in southern Moscow, 8 km from the Kremlin and 100 m from Andropov Avenue. Its first eight buildings, including research and production blocks, were planned for spring 2009, and the full park is to comprise 30 buildings.
The project was approved by Moscow government decree on 23 September 2003, creating the Nagatino-ZIL technopark on 32 hectares of the former ZIL factory grounds. The managing company, OAO Moscow Business Incubator, was founded the same year. The first eight buildings, including research and production blocks, were planned for spring 2009 at a cost of $300–400 million; the full park was to comprise 30 buildings.
The name Nagatino i-Land refers to the Nagatino district and the ZIL factory whose land the park occupies; the project was originally called Nagatino-ZIL. The managing company is OAO Moscow Business Incubator, founded in 2003 to support small businesses with non-residential premises. A 167-metre covered walkway with travelators over Andropov Avenue links the Technopark metro station, opened in December 2015, with the business park and the Dream Island theme park.
The site is well served by public transportation and offers space for collaboration with modern facilities. Visitors can easily find areas to work, meet, or explore ongoing projects.
The site was a polluted industrial wasteland for decades, so the project required soil testing and removal of ground soaked with harmful substances. Plans also called for greening the strip along the Moskva River, rebuilding the bridge over the old riverbed and laying out a new embankment from the Third Transport Ring to Andropov Avenue.
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