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Ipf Presentation Legend df CONNECTING PAST AND FUTURE LEGEND - a legendary project in an outstanding place designed and developed by a professional team of Capital Group, NBBJ, ENKA. LEGEND - a unique location in historical and cultural part of the City, in the neighborhood of numerous monuments of XVII – XXVIII centuries, temples, churches and low-rise building up. LEGEND – first line of one of the most beautiful green Boulevards in Moscow which connects Garden Ring and Trubnaya Square, a favorite spot for an after-hours leisure, offering a wide range of restaurants, cafes, retail stores, and other entertainment facilities. LEGEND – offers an exceptional office space environment with landscaped inner yard, terraces and master planned infrastructure. LEGEND is setting new standards of luxury and exclusivity, combining elegance of the architecture, innovative engineering characteristics and functionality of office space. CONCEPT Key Numbers: • Gross Project Area: 112.000 m² • Office Rentable Area: circa 50.000 m² • Available Office Area: 11.600 m² • Underground Parking: 630 parking lots Legend will provide: • Premium Class A offices Office Block B: 30.413 m² (Floors 2-7) Office Block C: 20.028 m² (Floors 3-7) • High-end residential apartments (9-14 floors) • Buddha Bar • Quality retail units on the 1st floor • Haute Cuisine restaurants Shell&Core Delivery: now Ownership Title received First Tenants moved in STRUCTURE Block C Block B Offices P Office Parking R Apartments P Residential Parking Parking Entrance LOCATION LEGEND is located within 10 minutes drive to Kremlin Wall, at the intersection of Boulevard Ring and Tsvetnoy Boulevard. From LEGEND to: • Trubnaya metro station: steps away • Tsvetnoy Boulevard metro station: 4 minute walk • Garden Ring: 2 minute drive • Boulevard Ring: steps away • Tverskaya Street: 7 minute drive • Third Transport Ring: 10 minute drive • Sheremetievo Airport: 30 km (40 minute drive) or 4 metro stations away to Belorusskay Station (direct express train) LEISURE BEYOND WORK With a variety of restaurants, retail centers, and cultural & entertainment facilities LEGEND is as much an after-hour leisure destination as a day-time business destination Stay with comfort: Keep on top of fashion: • 5* Ararat Park Hyatt Moscow, Neglinnay St., 4 • Berlin House, Petrovka St., 5 • 5* Marriott Royal Aurora, Petrovka St., 11/20 • Neglinnaya Plaza, Trubnaya Sq., 2 • 4* Renaissance Hotel, Olympisky Pr., 18/1 • GUM, Red Square, 3 • TSUM, Petrovka St., 2 Experience: • Petrovsky Passage, Petrovka St., 10 • Buddha Bar, Legend BC Relax with pleasure: • L`Alberto, Delegatskaya St, 7/1 (Italian) • LeSommelier – Pinot Noir, Petrovka St, 30/7 (European) • Milfey SPA, Legend BC • SPB, Bol`shoy Golovin, 17 (French, European) •Jean-Claude Biguine, Trubnaya St, 21 • Simple Pleasures, Sretenka St., 22/1 (European) • MONE, Sadovaya-Samotechnaya St., 9 • SYR, Sadovaya-samotechnaya, 16/2 (Italian) • La Creatura, Tsvetnoy Blvd., 22/12 • Goodman, Trubnaya Sq., 2 (American) Welcome LIFE STYLE IN LEGEND • Buddha Bar (first opening in Russia) • Canteen for the tenants • Conference facilities • Osteria UNO (Italian cuisine) • Coffee House •Milfey SPA • Inner yard Place client logo(s) here on Slide Master (optional) 8 DETAILS MATTER • Total rentable area: circa 50.000 m² • 3 separate lobbies from Tsvetnoy Boulevard for Block B and 1 lobby from Trubnaya Street for Block C • 10% Loss Factor • 8 x 6 m column grid • 1 per 75 m² parking ratio for Block B and 1 per 100 m² for Block C • 500-700 kg/m² floor load • 3.75 m slab-to-slab ceiling height (office floors) • 4.35 m slab-to-slab ceiling height (1st floor) • Floor to ceiling glass façade (double glazing) • 9 high speed elevators KONE in Block B and 4 high speed elevators KONE in Block C. Separate elevators for underground part in each Block • Dual-feed power supply (10 kVa electrical cables) • 3 pair 10/0.4 kV – 1600kVa dry-type transformers • 85 Wt per m² of usable area - electrical capacity • Computerized Building Management System • Flexible 4 pipe HVAC system • Fully sprinklered, pressurized stairwells with smoke extraction system for enhanced safety • Multilevel security system: Intruder Alarm System, CCTV System, Card Access Control, Audio-visual announce system • Professional Property Management KEEPING YOUR CARS SAFE • 3 level underground parking - 630 parking spaces • Ramp from Mal. Sergievsky lane leads to -1 level. Used by Residential part • Ramp from Trubnaya Street leads to -2 and -3 levels. Used by Office part. • Office Ramp has 3 ways in order to allow changing direction in rush hours • 380 lots on -2 and - 3 levels. Parking ratio for Block B: 1 per 75 m²; for Block C: 1 per 90 m² • 3.3 and 3.8 m slab-to-slab ceiling height • 500 kg/m² load capacity • 2.3 m entrance height • Equipped with automatic fire-fighting and smoke&gas detection systems • Floor made of high-strength material with antistatic and antislip covering WELCOMING YOUR GUESTS IN EXCLUSIVE MANNER • Special custom design of lobbies and public zones with modern finishing materials: natural stone, glass, wood panels and snow-white leather • Glass ceiling with neon lightning • Gorgeous views from all the floors • Landscaped inner yard 1st FLOOR OF BLOCK B Retail Units / Restaurants Canteen Parking ramps 1st FLOOR OF BLOCK C 6th FLOOR IN BLOCK B Usable area, m² Rentable area, m² Block I 1710.39 1881.43 7th FLOOR IN BLOCK B Usable area, m² Rentable area, m² Block 1373.97 1511.36 5th FLOOR IN BLOCK C Block I Usable area, m² Rentable area, m² Block I 1270.5 1397.5 4th and 3rd FLOORS IN BLOCK C Usable area, m² Rentable area, m² 3103 3413.4 Possible Division in Block C Usable area, m² Rentable area, m² Block 1 781.6 859.76 Block 2 2252.95 2478.24 .
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