Where there\'s MUC there\'s brass

The emergence of mixed-use complexes in the Ukraine is a natural consequence of the growth in the living standards of the population as a whole. The marketing of these developments often vividly portrays them as ‘cities in a city’.ixed-use complexes (MUCs) may have been a common feature in Western Europe since the 1980s, but in the Ukraine they have only been on the scene for the last few years. They represent arelatively new segment of the market, but at the same time arather dynamic and attractive one –for both foreign and domestic companies. In the Ukraine, those companies that are currently sticking todeveloping ‘mono-use properties’ are suffering from the fearful anticipation that there will be further liquidity problems, with the result that tenants might become thin on the ground. In contrast, the successful combination of several functions in one property could provide some insulation against this effect. For instance, ashortfall of commercial tena