Since the beginning of the summer holidays, the Olivia Centre has boasted the first outdoor pool table. It is a unique attraction available free of charge to all those interested. Olivia also has Omida Billiard Corner – a space on the first floor of Olivia Star, where two professional tables for playing this unusual sport await billiard lovers.
Since the beginning of the project, Olivia Centre has been developing the so-called passion clubs – informal clubs associating lovers of photography, sailing, football, volleyball or much less obvious passions, such as flower care. The most visible club is made up of singing enthusiasts, gathered in the Olivia Centre Choir, which recorded its own album and last year began participating in ticketed concerts in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Recently, a pool lovers’ club has been added to the list of opportunities to develop passion in Olivia. One of Olivia’s tenants, Omida Group, offered to make a billiard table available to all interested parties in Olivia’s common areas.
When I found a billiard table in our warehouses, I immediately thought of putting it in a public place and making it available to Olivia Residents ,” says Maciej Kotarski, director at Olivia Centre. I decided to get involved in the project Bartłomiej Glinka from Omida Group, who plays billiards very well and is happy to talk about it. This is our specialty – to find an enthusiast among the residents who will want to support a given project. By joining forces, it was possible to complete this project successfully and make a beautiful table available for all fans of this extraordinary game.
I immediately liked this idea – emphasizes Bartłomiej Glinka, Member of the Supervisory Board and co-founder of Omida Group. Thanks to the great cooperation with Olivia’s administration department, we were able to organize the space on the first floor of Olivia Star very quickly. We invested in it, arranged it in a way that ensured safety and immediately launched a league of enthusiasts of this sport from all over Olivia. Her tutor was Grzegorz Lasota, a billiard player, coach, member of Omida-Kmicic Starogard Gdański . On the basis of the first group of fans of this sport, in the first year it was possible to organize a billiard league, in which 30 players took part, and in the second edition there were already over 40 of them. The popularity of this idea caused Omida to supplement the Billiard Corner with a second table. This year, thanks to the cooperation with Starmax, the first outdoor billiard table appeared on Olivia’s patio, which is a kind of novelty in Poland.
We are very happy when residents get involved in Olivia’s life,” says Maciej Olszewski, Director of the Communication Department at Olivia Centre. We actively support their ideas and initiatives, and Omida Bilard Corner is a great example of this. A few weeks in 2024 were enough for Omida Billiard Corner to be built on the 1st floor of Olivia Star. So far, three billiard tournaments have been played here. Importantly, apart from the tournament emotions, the zone is available to all employees of the center, and admission to it is free. It is often used by employees of other companies who come to play a 10-minute game as part of a break from work.
However, this is not all that is happening around billiards in Olivia – says Maciej Kotarski. At the beginning of 2025, one of the residents came up with the idea of providing Olivia’s employees and guests with an outdoor pool table. We got in touch with a Polish manufacturer of such tables, found a suitable place on the patio and now you can play Olivia’s billiards in the open air. The table surface has a special structure that provides almost identical playing conditions as on a cloth-covered table. We haven’t seen an outdoor billiard tournament in Olivia yet, but the table attracts fans of this entertainment, especially during the lunch break or during our events from the Summer on the Patio series.
