Mega Trade and Entertainment Center hosting IKEA and Auchan received no permission to operate, reports Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg Vladimir Kritskiy.

According to Mr Kritskiy, this makes it impossible to include approximately 140,000 square meters of the trade center premises into the new office areas list for 2006.

However, even without these locations, 500,000 square meters of new offices were introduced in Yekaterinburg in 2006. This is a rather impressive figure.