Lord Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin visited reconstruction site of Dynamo Stadium and inspected the situation there on 18 March.  The Mayor said that a new sports cluster is being created on the territory of Petrovskiy Park, and VTB Arena – Lev Yashin Dynamo Central Stadium will be the heart of it.

«Dynamo Stadium is a unique sports facility. Now not only a new sports cluster is being created, but the historical West Stand will be kept untouched, as well as bas-relieves, unique history of Dynamo Stadium. Besides Dynamo Stadium a new Sports Academy is planned to be built here, top-class sport park, so I hope that this place will become a unique one, and the favourite one for Moscowites to go in for sport. I want to thank you for your commitment to continue this investment project, we discussed several years ago, in spite of difficult time, and a large-scale construction is under way”. – said Mr.Sobyanin.