Russian company Sestra River Developments plans to raise US$140m for the construction of an automotive component industrial park in the ‘Russian Detroit’, St Petersburg, Sergei Fiveisky, first deputy director of the city’s committee for economic development, said.

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The city government on Tuesday approved design and survey work on a site of about 16 hectares intended for the park, Fiveisky added.

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