'Ford Center, a motor show built for Autoland Holding, still hasn’t had the building commissioned yet and got no operating permits. The city council is currently trying to draw the monitoring agencies’ attention to the problem,’ the spokesperson for Yekaterinburg municipal council Konstantin Pudov said to a UrBC reporter.

The center was opened on June 21, 2007 despite the fact that it had no permission to operate. The permission, in its turn, was missing because Archstroynadzor (the architectural and construction safety watchdog) refused to approve of the results of the construction.