The City of the Future

The City of the Future (Miasto Przyszłości) is being developed on five hectares of a former gauge-equipment factory in Kraków's Bronowice district. Ultimately the scheme will have 12 buildings of 1001 flats, which will be delivered in three stages. In the first phase, which is now under way, one building of 130 flats, which have all already been sold, will be provided by mid 2007. The next stage will see a further six buildings, and the whole investment will be closed with the third phase in which five lower buildings will be delivered with a large apartment or penthouse on each floor. The size of the flats, which cost from zł.5,300 to zł.6,600 per square meter, will vary from 30 sqm to 145 sqm.

The project bears the name "City of the Future "because the project will offer many modern and intelligent solutions," explains the PR consultant from the project's investor, Salwator, Krzysztof Śpiewla. Apart from innovative security systems, the new tenants will use special electronic keys to open their flats.

B2 Studio, the author of the project, designed the buildings so that they have a view of the Wolski Forest and the Old Town in Kraków. The highest buildings, which will be located at the north end of the site, will have 12 floors, and the lowest will have three storeys at most. The glass elevation with aluminium panels and decorative metallic roughcast will give the buildings a light and modern look. The contractor of the first stage is Stalbud company.

The value of the investment in Miasto Przyszłości is about zł.200 million. The investor, Salwator City, was founded only for this particular project. Spółka Mieszkaniowa Salwator has 69.5 percent of the shares and Arka BZ WBK holds the remaining shares. The turnover of the whole Salwator group reached zł.90 million in 2005.

One of the biggest developers in the Małopolska region, Salwator has so far completed 19 residential projects in Kraków and three in Opole. Currently the company is developing eight investments in Kraków, one in Warsaw and one in Ustroń Morski.

Agnieszka Barteczko