July the 23rd, 2021 - The Croatian company Asura has contracted a very valuable job in the Macedonian city of Skopje, more precisely in the country's largest shopping centre which promises to be a hit - East Gate Mall.

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, Asura Facility Management Skopje, a member of the Croatian Asura Group, signed an agreement recently in the city of Skopje on the management services of the East Gate Mall, which is the largest shopping centre, as they point out, not only in North Macedonia, but also among the largest in Southeastern Europe.

Through a multi-year Business Cooperation Agreement, signed by East Gate Mall CEO Igor Davkov and Asura Macedonia CEO Stefan Handjiski, the Croatian company Asura will provide all of the needed integrated facility maintenance services.

The service includes technical services (the planning, care and maintenance of all technical systems) and infrastructure facility management (cleaning, environmental maintenance and physical and technical protection).

This cooperation will result in the creation of more than 160 new jobs in the field of technical correctness, cleanliness and physical protection of the facility, it was pointed out during the signing of the contract.

The shopping centre otherwise has 57 thousand square metres of space for shopping, and at the same location investors are developing a business park within which there will be 50,000 m2 of office space, as well as a residential part with a gross area covering ​​more than 200,000 m2 with 1,600 apartments.

The project will be surrounded by 25 thousand square metres of green space and will be open to visitors in mid-October 2021. Andrej Mandic, President of the Management Board of Asura Group, pointed out that the signed contract is the result of strong synergy work of their team despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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