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The Canadian Embassy in Kyiv will move some time this year into a newly renovated office building on a side street near the capital’s Independence Square, or Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

On March 1, real estate firm DTZ announced that it had completed a deal in late February for the Canadian Embassy to lease a business center on 13A Kostelna Street in a historic part of town next to St. Alexander’s Church, Kyiv’s oldest Catholic Church.

A Canadian Embassy official told the Kyiv Post that the move “hopefully will take place sometime this year.”

It took property developer ISA Prime Developments some three years to restore and renovate the building. The company’s website says the building’s area is 2,263 square meters, slightly bigger than the current embassy building.

“The new building will give us a bit more comfortable space,” the embassy official said.

The Canadian Embassy would not specify the actual date of the move from its current location at 31 Yaroslaviv Val near the city’s historic Golden Gate monument.

Kyiv Post staff writer Mark Rachkevych can be reached at [email protected].