The Tashkent province governor office has posted draft presidential decree on the implementation of the Tashkent Medical Smart City project for public input.
The draft envisages the building of a 400-hectare medical cluster in Dustlik area of Yukorichirchik district of the Tashkent province with a total $5 billion value of direct foreign investment of.
The project is being initiated by TMSC, a company co-owned by the South Korean architectural company HAEAHN Architecture. The project aims to develop medical tourism, implement advanced technologies in healthcare, and create modern infrastructure for living and doing business. The complex is planned to be built by 2034, creating more than 7,000 new jobs.
The Tashkent Province Administrative Center Construction Directorate will contribute the land plot to the authorized capital of TMSC LLC at market value.
The project includes the following projects:
- large medical facility meeting modern international standards, serving medical tourists;
- medical center and an emergency medical care center;
- branch of a prestigious South Korean medical university;
- international school and kindergarten with a medical focus;
- Korean-style quarter (cultural, shopping and gastronomic street, tourist facilities, etc.);
- business and shopping center, hotels;
- multi-story residential complex and other facilities.
All internal engineering networks and communications – electricity, water supply, sewerage, roads, bridges, artificial reservoirs – shall be borne by the investor. External infrastructure up to the project boundaries will be financed from the republican budget and funds from the Program for the Development of Social and Production Infrastructure.
Upon project completion, the engineering, communication and transport facilities will be transferred free of charge to the Tashkent province governor office. To expedite projects, a "fast-track" scheme is planned – simultaneous engineering, procurement, and construction, with the handover of completed facilities on a turnkey (EPC) basis.
Losses incurred by owners, users, and tenants of land plots, and owners of real estate due to the expropriation of land plots for public needs, will be compensated by the investor.
The project also includes environmental protection measures. If it is impossible to transplant perennial trees, the investor is obliged to compensate by planting 30 saplings (at least 3 years old) for each tree. For each transplanted tree, the investor and contractors must plant 10 saplings (also at least 3 years old) and provide care for them for three years.
In case of non-performance of the stipulated obligations by the investor, the land plot is returned to the management of the directorate without compensation for the incurred costs.
It should be noted that in October 2024, the CEO of HAEAHN, Kim Sung-hoon, presented the master plan for the medical cluster to the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The project was estimated at $500 million and planned to create 10,000 jobs after launch. The feasibility study for the project was scheduled to be developed by October 20, and the launch of the first phase in December 2026.
Representatives of HAEAHN Architecture, who were part of the delegation of South Korean companies, expressed interest in participating in the creation of a medical cluster within the framework of the "New Tashkent" project, using advanced South Korean experience, at a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services, Davron Adylov
