MINSK, 8 April (BelTA) – Fixed-capital investments of Br12.6 billion with a growth rate of 107.8% are the results produced by Minsk’s economy in 2025. Enterprises are being modernized and investments in the active part of fixed assets are growing. First Deputy Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee Aleksandr Komendant mentioned the figures in an interview with the Economy of Belarus magazine, BelTA has learned.
“Minsk has developed a favorable investment climate and created preferential regimes: the Minsk free economic zone, science and technology parks, and the Hi-Tech Park. Capital flows into the capital city from more than 80 countries around the world. Since the beginning of the year, $2.8 billion in foreign investment has already been poured into the city’s economy, of which direct investment amounted to about $2.6 billion or 65.4% of the republic’s total,” said Aleksandr Komendant.
A significant amount of funds is being attracted by the financial sector, the service sector, and the manufacturing sector. Investors are putting money into infrastructure, including social infrastructure. Business centers and shopping and entertainment centers, hotels, cafes, restaurants, and manufacturing facilities are being built.
In the northern part of the city the largest experimental project of comprehensive real estate development in the country is being implemented on an area of 1,345 hectares with the declared volume of foreign investment from the UAE at Br10 billion – the Northern Waterfront multifunctional complex. It is supposed to be implemented by 2040, and the potential number of residents will be comparable to the population of the city of Borisov.
The International Exhibition Center has already started operating in the Northern Waterfront area. Apart from that, a hotel complex within the boundaries of M. Bogdanovicha Street and Y. Kupala Street, a fish and seafood processing facility in the Kolyadichi industrial hub, and the National Football Stadium were put into operation in the city in 2025.
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