Bowling in Bytom's center

Braaten+Pedersen, the developer behind the Forum shopping center in Gliwice, is planning to renovate a 10,000 sqm part of plac Kościuszki and construct a three-storey shopping mall. The investor wants to launch the works in the spring of 2007 and complete the project by the fall of 2008. The value of the investment will reach EUR 55.6 (zł.214) million. The company has recently paid zł.15 million for the plot.

Bytom's residents will not only have a new place to go shopping, but also will be able to spend their free time in the multiscreen cinema, bowling alley, coffee shops, restaurants, as well as make use of a laundry, a shoemaker, a photographer or a travel agency. There will be offices with green terraces, a winter garden and a two-floor underground parking lot.

Haskoll, a London-based archtectural studio, has designed the area, taking special care to respect its architectural past.

The investment will have a positive influence on the city's labor market, providing 850 new jobs.