All the data indicate that Olivia will also go for a record in terms of signed lease agreements this year. In the first 6 months of this year alone, lease agreements covered more than m.kw 22,000, which, in the light of almost 40,000 leased space throughout 2021, allows us to forecast another good result for the whole of 2022. As a reminder, the entire Olivia is 175,000 sqm. GLA – is the largest office project in Poland.
In line with Olivia’s policy, the contracts include companies from very diverse sectors of the economy. This allows us to ensure a wide tenant mix, and thus room for cooperation between tenants of this largest business center in Poland. New residents include the finance, IT, consulting, transportation, HR, and even… Agricultural.
Among the new tenants of office space there are the largest and most innovative companies in the world, as well as start-ups that have been developing to become leaders in their segments over the years. Olivia’s new resident is Capgemini , a global leader in transformation and business management consulting with a group budget of €18 billion. Ultimately, up to 1000 employees will provide services in the field of operational tasks and data aggregation and analysis systems in its offices.
The new tenant of the space is also one of the most innovative companies in the world – the British Graphcore, which develops computing systems for artificial intelligence. The company has designed a processor called the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), whose architecture allows researchers to apply new methods and algorithms in the field of machine learning. Graphcore’s R&D center works directly with R&D units, universities, and companies around the world.
In the first half of the year, the clothing giant Nike opened its first technology center in Poland and the third in Europe, which will implement projects in Olivia in the areas related to data streaming, data processing and analysis, as well as technological innovations, which the American company will implement in brick-and-mortar stores in the future.
Olivia is conducive to the development of many companies from the IT sector, which makes it a real hub of this industry. In the earlier months of this year, companies such as Softserve, Acaisoft, and Sentila opened their offices in Olivia. The first one is one of the most dynamically developing companies in the industry, with headquarters in Austin, Texas and Lviv, Ukraine. They have been operating on the Polish market since 2014, currently employing about 1000 people, and their development is associated with new contracts m.in. FinTechs operating in Southeast Asia. Acaisoft has been on the market since 2015 and has its offices in two locations in Poland and California in the United States. Sentila B.V. is a company specializing in unique software solutions for financial markets and blockchain technology.
In Olivia’s newest building, in Olivia Prime, an office with a spectacular roof terrace will be taken over by the most dynamically growing recruitment company in the IT industry, i.e. Just Join IT. The portal created by her is visited by over 0.5 million Polish programmers every month. The same group also includes RocketJobs.pl and HelloHR.pl portals, which focus their recruitment activities in the marketing, sales, finance, engineering, HR, BI & Data and many other industries.
New tenants are also companies from the food industry: Polish Agro (member of an international group of 80 companies operating in 80 countries with a turnover of more than 4.4 billion euros) and MIK Food, specialising in the export, trade and import of fish and seafood from countries such as Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Vietnam and Chile.
Importantly, more than half of the contracts signed were contract extensions or space selection by Olivia’s existing residents. This confirms the high attractiveness of this office center on the Northern Polish market. O4 Coworking operating in Olivia is also breaking records of popularity. The reservation rate of shared spaces reaches 100% in each of the 4 buildings in which O4 has its offices. In the first half of this year alone, 32 companies joined O4 – traditionally, most of them represent new technologies and software, but among the new Residents there are also businesses related to interior finishing, rental of clothing and hygiene equipment, or energy production.
“We are pleased with both the number of new O4ians and the fact that the existing customers not only stay with us, but often grow and develop ,” says Marta Moksa, director of O4 Coworking. Thanks to the strong synergy with Olivia Centre, we have always We can find a much larger area for them – if they are ready for it. We are also very satisfied with the results of recent surveys conducted among our residents, which clearly show that being in O4 is much more than an office. Above all, it’s the people who make every job more bearable!”
“The first half of the year allows us to look at the whole of 2022 with optimism ,” says Maciej Kotarski, Commercialization Director at Olivia Centre. The Tri-City has been on everyone’s lips lately, and our partners often emphasize that their employees are very often thinking about moving to the Tri-City. The most frequently mentioned advantages are access to the sea and the beach, high-quality air, the vast Tri-City Landscape Park and extensive infrastructure, which makes the Tri-City simply a good place to live: the moraine hills surrounding the agglomeration allow you to develop your sports passions. The sea is a perfect stimulus for all kinds of water sports, and an extensive network of bicycle paths allows you to choose an eco-friendly way of commuting to work. We also draw from all this and run passion development clubs, perfectly integrating the Olivia community.
