IN BRIEF

Published: October 10, 2012 (Issue # 1730)

Aloft Hotel Project

ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — The city’s town planning committee last week approved the design for the construction of a new hotel on Pirogovskaya Naberezhnaya.

The hotel will be operated under Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide’s brand Aloft. The three-star hotel is scheduled to open in 2015.

The project’s contractor is Remstroiintur and the general designer is Tekhnologiya Stroitelstva, Interfax reported.

Pyotr Nikolayevich, general director of Tekhnologiya Stroitelstva, said the hotel would occupy an area of 10,000 square meters, with 180 rooms and 40 parking spaces.

The town planning committee recommended that the designers improve the façade of the building to ensure the hotel’s appearance will not conflict with the surrounding buildings.

More Toyota Cars

ST. PETERSBURG (SPT) — Toyota Motor Manufacturing Russia increased production at its St. Petersburg plant by 1.6 percent during the past nine months, Interfax reported.

It increased production of the Toyota Camry model during the same period of time by 62 percent.

Sales of new Toyotas increased by 1.4 times to 117,800 cars, including 25,753 Camry models. The Toyota Camry is produced both at the company’s plant in St. Petersburg and in

Japan.