Intelligent design

Poznań-based developer Nickel Group (NG), operating through its subsidiaries Nickel Development and PTB Nickel, is gathering together promising enterprises and R&D centers in the first privately-owned technology park in Poland. The park, called Nickel Technology Park Poznań (NTPP), is located 12 km from downtown Poznań, close to the route of the city's planned ring road.

NTPP's first tenants include Maersk Logistics, EDP Group, Lst-Net and Exact Software Polska. NTPP currently hosts a 4,560-sqm office building and two warehouses with a total area of 12,170 sqm, The park also boasts 33 ha of land prepared for future construction projects. Next year NG will deliver another 4,560 sqm office building, a public-services building and a large commercial development within the park's territory.

"The demand for office space at the park has doubled and this is why we are expanding our offer, which is addressed to dynamically growing companies and R&D centers," says Dagmara Nickel, president of NTPP's managing board. "Our goal is to establish flexible connections between the companies that are located in the park and eliminate barriers between entrepreneurs and science centers, which will turn NTPP into a genuine technology park," she adds.

Once finished, NTPP's new public-services building will serve the needs of the people working in the park, offering facilities such as a kindergarten, a medical clinic, a grocery store, a laundromat and numerous catering outlets.

In the future NTPP plans to put further emphasis on offices, light production plants, laboratories and data centers.