Matarnia half-way there

This new trade and service complex of 72,000 sqm is being built next to Ikea Gdańsk on 18 hectares. In the first stage of expansion, the area will reach 33,000 sqm. The project was designed by Marcin Ochmański Architekci from Gdynia, the total cost of the investment will be zł.180 million and it will provide 500 jobs in the area. Ultimately, Matarnia will house more than 50 shops, and five restaurants will open in November this year. It is one of several new ventures by the Inter Ikea Centre Polska this year. In March the company started work on the Targówek shopping center in Warsaw, and a month later other investments in Katowice, Gdańsk and Bielany Wrocławskie got off the ground, worth some zł.350 million.