15:18 9 September 2024
Silesia Region, Metropolia & Katowice City: Your Land of Opportunities
The prestigious Silesia Region with its unique and Poland’s only formal metropolitan area – the GZM (Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia) and the vividly developing regional capital city of Katowice invite you to dive into the world of your best investment destination.
This very well connected area located in southern Poland with almost 400 km of motor and expressways, Katowice Airport with over 5,6M passengers in 2023 - one of the leaders of Poland’s cargo freight (located in close proximity to 2 other international airports: Kraków Airport and Ostrava Airport) and a transshipment terminal which facilitate transport of goods between China and Europe, offers you more than any other place.
Cooperation of regional, metropolitan and municipal authorities supports over half a million of enterprises, including almost 6,000 foreign companies. Silesia, as the economical heart of Poland, with its 12% GDP, is in the top 10 of the Financial Times report on European Regions and Cities of the Future 2024 in the FDI strategy and cost-effectiveness categories. Moreover, Silesia is the home for the Katowice Special Economic Zone, recognised as Europe’s best freezone.
The GZM with its 41 municipalities unifies the socio-economic development, mobility and environmental matters, giving the synergetic background to a vast area in the heart of the Silesia Region and the fast developing Katowice City. Huge potential of the metropolis and the region in terms of technological solutions, research and development, educational, real estate, transport and leisure background, serves as a great base for the investment-triggering Katowice City.
Katowice City in recent years has transformed from a heavy industry city to a business centre of our region and the GZM. The economical attractiveness of Katowice is made by a couple of factors. The first one is the transportation and infrastructure - thanks to the good location of the city, investors have access to 2 highways: A1 and A4, and Silesian Intercity Road which is a high-speed freeway between the cities of the GZM. The second factor is the business environment, supported by 751,000 sq m of office space, low unemployment rate (1%, one of the lowest in Poland) and 19 universities with almost 90k students and over 22k graduates a year, offering a great human resources potential for investors. The third factor is the diversified economic structure which includes IT, engineering design, banking, education, culture, construction, medicine, commerce, energy, pharmacy, food industry, automotive industry, transport and logistics, machine industry. The strongest one is the Business Services Sector which is represented by 140 BSS centers with 33,400 employees (in the GZM) and the MICE sector with 8,261 conference days and 730,000 participants in Katowice.
Katowice City is also entering the new era of development with its New Technology District – the Katowice Gaming and Technology Hub. It will be located in the historical post-industrial buildings which will be transformed into a place for IT companies, gaming industry, startups and other tech companies. The future of the IT, Gaming and Tech industries in the Silesia Region is shaping up in Katowice City!
Partnership between the Silesia Region, the GZM and the Katowice City is a unique one. Those three entities work for the well-balanced and well-tailored investment destination, supported by the mobility, human-resource, research and development, labour-force and space potential. The peaceful and friendly surroundings, the growing international population, the engaged and open regional, metropolitan and municipal environment, the beautiful green areas make this location a fantastic place to live and work. The growing interest of international businesses and investors gives evidence to the investment potential of that land - Your Land of Opportunities!
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