New furniture store opens near Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia

Georgia is improving the infrastructure and adding new businesses near its administrative border with breakaway Abkhazia, offering better living conditions for locals and those living in the occupied region.

After opening a multi-profile hospital, a multi-million GEL trade centre and a new greenhouse, as well as planning the 31st Community Centre of Georgia’s Ministry of Justice, now Rukhi village in the western Georgian city of Zugdidi welcomed a new furniture store.

Belux, one of the largest furniture centres in Georgia, opened a shop has in Rukshi village.

At the new store people will be able to buy all kinds of imported furniture and home accessories from Europe and Asia.

All these projects implemented about a kilometre from Enguri Bridge along the so-called administrative border of Georgia and breakaway Abkhazia aimed to stimulate the local economy and support Georgian citizens on both sides of the ABL.

The trading complex in Rukhi village comprised of 10 separate buildings and other infrastructural facilities on a five hectare plot. Photo by the Partnership Fund.

Ten local people will be employed at the new furniture store.

The Belux store opened in Rukhi village's new trade centre, where the Embawood furniture brand will open a store in 10 days.

The complex area was already occupied by wholesale and retail shops, furniture and hardware stores, a supermarket, an open market, financial and banking facilities, an auto service, post office and a pharmacy.

The trading complex in Rukhi village comprised of 10 separate buildings and other infrastructural facilities on a five hectare plot, which provided permanent jobs for 700 people.

The development project, worth 15 million GEL (about $6.05 million/€5.4 million*), was financed by the state-owned Partnership Fund. About 300 locals were employed during the construction phase of the trade centre.