In December 2019, a successful buyer came about which was sold to JSC Retail - which was a real estate company that was owned by the head of the Wagner Group; Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Records indicate that JSC Retail was founded on 28 June 2019, and the first chief executive officer of the company was a man known as Vladimir Valerevich Kalyaev.

Furthermore, the low rise part of the building was meant to house an antenatal clinic, a health centre, as well as the offices for the RosStroyInvest company.

[1][5] The vision of the centre was described to "create a comfortable environment for generating new ideas that would improve Russia's defensive capacity, including information-wise".

By the time of opening, the Wagner Centre only had 6 to 7 floors all set - and visitors were told that the entire building would be in service in the long run.

It was reported that while not being just involved with Wagner in a direct military approach and sense, many are interested in working in fields encompassing propaganda or otherwise software development at the centre.

It was also mentioned that, as visitors ascend to the upper floors - they can observe military equipment captured from the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine being exhibited.

During the night of the rebellion, the Wagner Centre was raided by Russian police forces following Prigozhin's attempted coup.

[8] On 13 November 2023, it was reported that four former inmates who fought for the Wagner Group in eastern Ukraine, have been receiving calls and text messages offering them military contracts.

A text message said: "Wagner is officially becoming a unit of Rosgvardia...The entire structure, methods of work and commanders remain the same.