More space in Silesia

The buildings of a former printing house on Katowice's Al. Korfantego are being converted into a new business center. Called the Silesia Atrium, the project's owners have just started leasing space to tenants. The 17,000-sqm office center offers individual tenants up to 3,000 sqm of space.

Metropolis Nieruchomości Komercyjne bought the building from Cartotecnica Polska, and started taking offers from potential tenants last week. The company plans to complete the project, worth between zł.30 and zł.60 million, within 15 months.

"The choice of location and the formula according to which we are going to construct Silesia Atrium is the result of our talks with large investors interested in leasing big office spaces in Katowice," says Marek Wollnik, managing director at Metropolis Nieruchomości Komercyjne. "For the last couple of months office space available in Katowice has decreased dramatically. That is why I am sure that Silesia Atrium will arouse huge interest. The complex is in a position to become an attractive alternative for the fully leased office space in buildings located next to the Katowice Roundabout," Wollnik adds.

Silesia Atrium was designed by Pracownia Architektoniczna Akant and will offer high-quality office space, where tenants will become the ultimate architects of the space and decide what their future offices will look like. The complex will have some 460 parking spaces.

Silesia Atrium's 17,000 sqm will become a significant part of the office space in Katowice's city center. The total office space in the Upper Silesian capital amounts to some 150,000 sqm, some 60 percent of which is located in the heart of Katowice. Experts estimate that this is still too little in relation to market requirements.