Building № 7 of the Arsenal plant was opened in 1917 as a blacksmith’s workshop. It was built on the site of an old painting workshop designed by Viktor Borisovich Fleischer in the style of rational Art Nouveau.

In the second half of the XX century the building was partially rebuilt and completed. It underwent significant changes and was converted to the needs of the production of a military plant, because for many decades it was used as a factory shop.

For a long time, the building was not operated and reached 2018 in a terrible state, despite its status as a monument of architecture and urban planning.

In 2019 A Development team renovated the building and returned it to its historical appearance in the style of rational modernity. At the beginning of 2020 A Development invited Creative States to open a coworking space here.
____

The Kyiv Arsenal manufacture was opened in the middle of the 18th century. First, small artillery equipment and parts for guns were repaired and manufactured here.The development of the enterprise had an important military and strategic role for the Empire, so when the volume of production increased, the facilities were moved to Moskovska Street (now Ostrozhsky Princes Street) for the fortification of the Kyiv fortress.

Thanks to the presence of a military manufacture here, the fortress was modernized.So, in 1855, a centralized water supply appeared, and from there, the water supply system covered all of Kyiv. Since 1884 the plant was electrified.

In the early twentieth century, the Arsenal manufacture was the largest and most progressive enterprise in Kyiv. More than 800 workers worked here, who had a full social package. The trade union had its own kindergarten, a two-year school, now it is the Klovsky Lyceum, a theater, a library, and its own hospital. > Bronislav: After World War II, captured German equipment from Carl Zeiss Jena (a manufacturer of photographic equipment and optical devices) was brought to the plant. With its help, they began to produce popular cameras from the Kyiv and Salyut series, optics, electronic orientation and targeting systems for fighters.

In the second half of the 1990s. created and mass-produced optical-electronic devices for medicine. Subsequently, the production of traffic lights on LEDs, bank metering equipment, high-precision gas metering devices was mastered.

Today, A Development is implementing an ambitious project to revitalize the old buildings of the Arsenal plant. A-Station is a space of unity of the past and the present, a place of meetings and acquaintance of guests with Kyiv.