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The third office building in Yareal’s flagship investment, the LIXA complex in Warsaw’s Wola district, has welcomed a new tenant, Rise.pl a company providing virtual, coworking and serviced offices on the Polish market. The company will occupy 3,300 sqm and has signed a 10-year lease for the entire fifth floor of LIXA C.
“By opening another office in Warsaw in LIXA C, we want to cater to our most demanding clients, whose dynamic needs require a presence in the capital’s new business district,” said Piotr Augustyn, owner and chairman of the board at Rise.pl.
“We want the LIXA campus and its open green spaces to become a hub for dynamic business development,” comments Eric Dapoigny, CEO of Yareal Polska.
Rise.pl was represented by consulting agency Savills in concluding the lease agreement.
“Flexible offices have become very popular these past few years. Companies that are entering Poland and its markets often choose such solutions before moving into their target office, which helps them optimize costs while they’re still building their team,” comments Jarosław Pilch, Head of Tenant Representation at Savills.
The LIXA complex will ultimately offer a total area of 77,000 sqm on completion.
Ghelamco has signed an agreement with NTT, a market-leading IT company. The organisation will occupy the 20th floor in the over 200-meter-high Warsaw UNIT skyscraper, benefiting from a total of 1,000 sqm of state-of-the-art office space. The tenant was supported in the transaction by Savills.
Located in the heart of Warsaw’s business centre, with 46 floors and 57,000 sqm of modern workspace, the skyscraper developed by Ghelamco is one of the most technologically advanced buildings in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.
“Warsaw UNIT is a building created with the present and the future in mind,” says Jarosław Zagórski, Commercial and Business Development Director at Ghelamco Poland.
Robert Makuch, Chief Financial Officer, Board member at NTT, said. “As a company providing remote working solutions, we know that combining ease of use with secure access to corporate resources can be a challenge.”
“The area around Rondo Daszyńskiego in Warsaw is attracting more and more technology companies, as evidenced by recent transactions on the office space market,” says Marcin Sabowicz, Associate Director, Office Agency at Savills.
IMMOFINANZ has signed a new lease for more than 5,000 sqm of space in the recently modernized myhive Haller Gardens office building in Budapest.
Located in South Pest, the 7-storey office building is certified with a BREEAM certification for the sustainable built environment, while its accessibility to people with limited mobility is guaranteed by the Access4you certificate.
“Our new tenants have chosen myhive Haller Gardens because of our market-leading range of services, where their emerging needs can be fully met by the office building”, said Ottó Vörös, Country Manager Finance & Support, IMMOFINANZ Hungary.
