PKP picks Ghelamco for new Warsaw terminal
“We are pleased that the negotiations with Ghelamco came to a successful close,” said PKP SA’s Real Estate Director, Jarosław Bator in a press release, adding that “we are undertaking more and more developer investment projects, and this is a solution which is profitable for both parties.”
Construction work is to commence by the end of the current year or at the beginning of 2015. The whole development will be constructed in stages, with the actual station first up for reconstruction works.
Three developers were originally shortlisted for the PLN multi-million contract. Earlier, one of the contenders, Marvipol, believed that the tender should be annulled and reissued and has filed a motion to the Supreme Audit Chamber. Marvipol also currently owns a long-term lease of a plot directly adjacent to the planned station investment.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Audit Chamber has announced that it will look into the PKP tender for the Warsaw Gdańska station in the second half of 2014.
The new Warszawa Gdańska station, situated just to the north of the Old and New Town districts, is to become a multi-modal transport hub which integrates suburban rail links with the city’s bus, tram and metro services.
