"New Holland" Roman Abramovich



Investment: $ 365 million
Area: 7 soccer fields
Use: Development
Location: St. Petersburg
The artificial island of New Holland appeared between the Moika River in the era of Peter I after construction. Until the 2000s, it housed warehouses of the Leningrad Naval Base. In 2004, the Ministry of Defence handed over the island city two years later won the competition for the reconstruction of the company Shalva Chigirinsky and Igor Kesaev. Partners plan to invest $ 1 billion in the island, but their plans to prevent financial difficulties. In autumn 2010 to re-contest won by Roman Abramovich, LLC "New Holland Development", which has committed to invest in the reconstruction of 12 billion rubles ($ 365 million at current exchange rates) until 2017. Investors are going to build an area of ??7.8 hectares of museums, exhibition centers, cultural centers, and restore the architectural appearance of the "New Holland". This island can not be considered complete private ownership of Abramovich
yet almost everyone is not built it, will belong to his company. Under the agreement with the City,
after the project developer will be required to convey to the city utilities and two bridges to the island.
Active participation in the project takes the well-known patron of modern art, a close friend of Abramovich, Daria Zhukova, whose name is also associated with the now-defunct cultural center of the "garage" and an updated Gorky Park in Moscow. Partly because of the media dubbed the New Holland "Mecca of St. Petersburg hipsters."

Eco Island, Richard Branson



The total cost of purchasing and investment: more than $ 120 million
The total area of ??84 football fields
Use: tourist industry
Location: Mosquito and Necker Island - British Virgin Islands, Karbiskoe sea Makepeace Island - Australia  61-year-old founder of Virgin's Richard Branson bought his first island - Necker - when he was 28. Currently, the island is open to visitors. In addition, there is the personal residence of Branson and his family. In 2011, the villa extravagant entrepreneur, he has to date invested about $ 100 million, were destroyed by the hurricane. The owner took the loss philosophically - as an opportunity to build a new, even better than the last. In 2003, Branson purchased Makepeace tiny island in Australia, which is shaped like a heart. It was planned that there will be a rest employees Virgin, but now the island is accessible to the public (A company of 22 people renting will cost up to $ 17,000 per night). In 2007, the entrepreneur has acquired Mosquito Island in the vicinity of Necker, which set out to equip the "eco-resort"
with 20 villas and a restaurant, which feed exclusively from solar and wind energy. The island is home to rare species of lizards - geckos dwarf. Also, the businessman said the plans provide far lemurs
who are languishing in captivity at the "Big Land" - an initiative that criticized a number of environmentalists.

Island partner of Bill Gates



Cost: $ 13.5 million
The area of ??109 football fields
Usage: investment
Location: Washington, USA
Kofaunder Microsoft Paul Allen, whose fortune is estimated by Forbes in $ 14 billion, bought the island 20 years ago, Allan. With all due respect to the merits of Allen's worth noting that the island was named after the hero of the American fleet, not IT-industry gurus, as you might think. Currently, the island is virtually built up, there is not even electricity. Buy a piece of land in the middle of the sea is much easier than to sell.
Allen is trying to get rid of the island's namesake, the middle zero, when it was put up for sale for $ 25 million The crisis has tempered the appetite of the owner: Now for Allan asked twice smaller amount - $ 13.5 million

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