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iLunch open at Olivia Centre!

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

Fast lunch, not fast food – this is the new gastronomic offer at Olivia Centre. High-quality dishes, served less than 2 minutes after ordering, are a response to the need of a large group of employees who avoid monotony and want to eat a meal quickly in comfortable conditions. The Lithuanian chain is planning an ambitious expansion in the largest Polish cities, and has opened its first restaurant in the largest Polish business center in Gdańsk.

The Gdańsk restaurant received its first guests on Friday, January 23. The preopening was attended by office managers from Olivia Centre, business partners and the media, and its official opening took place on Monday, January 26. The restaurant chain is successfully developing in Lithuania, Latvia and the United Arab Emirates, where it already has over 40 restaurants. In Poland, 100 openings are planned over the next 5 years, and the total cost of the iLunch network investment is expected to reach EUR 50 million.

The idea of the restaurant is based on high-quality dishes, which are available to guests within 2 minutes of ordering. The ordering process is fully automated, and operational excellence allows you to serve fresh, on-site dishes for up to 500 people a day at such a fast pace. The menu includes classic Polish dishes, which will be complemented by constantly changing dishes from different parts of the world.

“The standard of our restaurants is the high quality of the dishes served and automated service ,” says Aurelijus Jasevičius, founder of iLunch. – However, the fact that our dishes are available so quickly does not mean that we want to provide a quick meal. iLunch restaurants are characterized by interesting design and solutions that increase the comfort of spending time with us, so we invite our guests to enjoy a lunch break in a friendly atmosphere and pleasant environment. We want to offer them quality and comfort as well as a distinctive and wide range of dishes at very affordable prices.

Olivia Centre was chosen for the premiere of iLunch in Poland for a reason. On a daily basis, 15 thousand people work here and the center can boast of a high level of employee attendance in offices, so its choice seems to be perfect for the premiere of the chain in Poland. We try to provide our residents with the most diverse offer in every area – says Bogusław Wieczorek, Representative of the Management Board of Olivia Centre. The cafes, prestigious restaurants and bistro bars already present in Olivia are joined by an original lunch concept, thanks to which we are expanding the range of opportunities that await the employees of the offices that have their headquarters in our center. This year, Olivia will welcome the first residents to the new Olivia Pulse apartment building, which is why the opening of iLunch is another step to improve the quality of work, leisure time, and soon also life in Olivia.

Author of photos: Witek Deka

We invite you to visit the Gdańsk Resident Card Service Point at Olivia Prime.

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

We warmly invite you to visit the Resident Service Point dedicated to users of the Gdańsk Resident Card. The service point is located in the Olivia Prime building at Olivia Centre. Here, residents of Gdańsk can complete all formalities related to the programme addressed to people who live, study, pay taxes, or run a business in Gdańsk.

 

Opening hours:

  • Monday–Friday: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, Sunday: closed
  • Service break: Monday–Friday, 1:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.

What can you do at the service point?

  • apply for or renew the Gdańsk Resident Card
  • add new packages, including the 2026 Resident Package
  • get assistance with using the card and the mobile application
  • purchase ZTM season tickets
  • obtain information about current discounts, attractions, and city projects available to cardholders

photo: https://jestemzgdanska.pl

 

The Gdańsk Resident Card is a modern tool that has been making it easier for residents to use city services since 2017. It offers free admission tickets, discounts, and access to events and other benefits at the most attractive prices. Today, the card is used by several hundred thousand residents.

 

Users can enjoy access to cultural, museum and sports facilities, special “Gdańsk menu” packages in restaurants, discounts on shopping and services provided by local businesses. For those who enjoy spending time in Gdańsk, the card opens the door to as many as 32 city attractions – completely free of charge. It also offers free admission once a year, among others, to the zoo, the Amber Museum, Hevelianum, ice rinks, swimming pools operated by the Gdańsk Sports Centre, and many other venues. In addition, extra discounts are available in as many as 200 venues across the city.

 

For children and young people, the Resident Card provides free public transport. For holders of paid personalised ZTM season tickets, it enables free travel on SKM, PKM and POLREGIO trains within Gdańsk. Seniors are the first to receive information about interesting events and programmes dedicated especially to them.

 

Moreover, thanks to the “Jestem z Gdańska” app, users can pay local taxes, exchange information with neighbours via the VILEO messenger, take part in special points-based competitions, borrow books from the Regional and Municipal Public Library, and vote on projects within the Civic Budget.

 

The Resident Service Point operating at Olivia Centre is the second facility of this kind in Gdańsk.

 

Fig. Michał Wesołek | @WerbrandUnicorns

Olivia Centre as a symbol of Polish’s economic success in the “Daily Mail”

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

Olivia Centre found herself at the centre of one of the most famous foreign texts of recent days. An article by the British Daily Mail, which was devoted to Polish’s economic success and the return of about 100,000 Poles from the UK to work in the country, illustrates a photo of Olivia.

 

In the paper edition of the newspaper, readers saw a night panorama of Gdańsk with Olivia Star and her observation deck. The publication also received widespread coverage online: the Daily Mail reaches over 200 million unique users per month, and the announcement of the article on social media reached over 4 million views. The text was also shared by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

 

The article included an extensive excerpt devoted to Olivia’s story. Jake Jephcott, Business Development Director at Olivia Centre, described the development of the complex as an example of the dynamic transformation of the Polish economy – from one office building to seven buildings, which today employ about 20 thousand people.

 

The Daily Mail also draws attention to the growing competitiveness of the Polish labor market. Over the past two decades, salaries in Poland have increased several times, and the salary packages for specialists working at Olivia are in many cases equal to those in London today. According to the data cited in the text, up to 20-30% of employees are people who have returned to Poland from Great Britain and Ireland.

The publication of Olivia Centre as a visual and substantive reference point for the story of talent return and long-term development is another confirmation of its role as one of the most important business projects of the last dozen or so years in Poland and a recognizable symbol of the modern economy also abroad.

 

 

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A new Gdańsk Resident’s Card service point opened in Olivia Prime

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

In the newest building of Olivia Centre, a new service point for residents has been launched, intended for users of the Gdańsk Resident’s Card. This is where Gdańsk residents can complete all the formalities related to the program addressed to people living, studying, paying taxes or doing business in Gdańsk.

 

The Gdańsk Resident’s Card is a modern tool that has been making it easier for residents to use city services since 2017, offering free admission tickets and discounts, as well as access to events and other benefits at the best prices. Currently, it is already used by 360 thousand. Residents. Users have at their disposal events and cultural, museum and sports facilities, special Gdańsk menu packages in restaurants, discounts on purchases and service orders in Gdańsk enterprises. For all those who like to spend time in Gdańsk, it allows you to discover as many as 32 city attractions. And it’s completely free of charge ! It allows free admission once a year m.in to the zoo, the Amber Museum, the Hevelianum, the ice rink, the swimming pools of the Gdańsk Sports Center and many other places. In addition, additional discounts are granted in as many as 200 establishments throughout the city.

 

The Resident’s Card allows children and young people to use public transport free of charge, while ZTM allows people who buy paid personal season tickets to travel free of charge on SKM/PKM/POLREGIO trains in Gdańsk. Seniors are the first to receive news about interesting events and programs designed especially for them.

 

In addition, thanks to the I Am from Gdańsk application, users can pay local taxes, exchange information with their neighbours via the VILEO messenger, take part in special point competitions, borrow books from the Voivodeship and Municipal Public Libraries and vote for the Civic Budget projects.

 

The resident service point opened in Olivia Centre is the second facility of its kind in Gdańsk. It is also another public institution available in this largest Polish business center, after Invest Pomerania and the Gdańsk Talent Development Centre. Apart from them, residents can also find service points for Energa customers, numerous banks, a fitness center, and importantly, there are parking lots available on site that allow free parking for up to 30 minutes. The proximity of bus, tram and SKM railway stops is also important for residents.

 

Olivia, through the functions we offer to residents and tourists, is part of the developing Gdańsk, and the policy we implement to introduce as many services as possible to the center, which are used by residents and tourists, allows literally each of them to feel at home in Olivia – says Bogusław Wieczorek, Olivia Centre’s Board Representative. The observation deck on the 32nd floor of Olivia Star is the best place to start exploring Gdańsk, because from here, as if in the palm of your hand, you can see the whole city: from the tower of St. Mary’s Church, through shipyard cranes, the Gdańsk Stadium, the Bay of Gdańsk to the monuments of Oliwa with the cathedral, park and the majestic Tri-City Landscape Park. Several hundred events take place here every year, including concerts by stars of the Polish music scene, theater performances or meetings of culinary art lovers at the Michelin-honored restaurants Arco by Paco Perez and Treinta y Tres. Since this year, we have a center for multimedia family entertainment, and our offer is complemented by a fitness center, a medical center, numerous cafes, bistros and restaurants. We hope that the Residents’ Service Center and the Gdańsk Residents’ Benefits Program will allow us to welcome many residents who have not had the opportunity to visit us so far, and thanks to this, we will become a popular and popular place to spend time for even more Gdańsk residents.

 

 

Fig. Michał Wesołek | @WerbrandUnicorns

 

Olivia Centre is all over WELL

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

For the first time, Olivia Centre has obtained WELL Health-Safety Rating certificates for all its buildings.
What is more, 7 buildings of the largest business centre in Gdańsk retained the world’s first maximum score, obtaining 25 out of 25 possible points in 22 basic and 3 additional categories related to innovation.

 

The certification granted by the International Well Building Institute in New York is issued on the basis of criteria created by 600 scientists, business leaders, medics, architects, designers, government officials, real estate specialists, as well as standards in construction.
Its main goal is to verify the user-friendliness of the facilities, care for their well-being based on the latest technological solutions, but also takes into account the so-called
“soft criteria”, such as improving the quality of life and work, promoting healthy practices and initiatives to build an active and cooperative community of residents.
The criteria are focused on the following categories: cleanliness and safety of the workspace and common areas, safety of users and standards of preparedness in crisis situations, availability of health care, ensured high class of air and water quality, communication (internal – addressed to employees and external – addressed to all types of external stakeholders) and innovations.

 

– WELL HSR certification for our entire business centre is a very clear message for all its current and future residents: if you work in Olivia, you can be sure that the environment in which you are located meets the most restrictive global standards – says Konrad Danecki from the investor’s supervision of Olivia Centre.
– To be more specific: if you set yourself the goal of being in an environment that cares for your employees, promotes activity, health and cooperation, and besides, in the background, in a non-invasive way for users, ensures safety, stability of functioning and development, and supports residents in their initiatives for well-being, promotion and cooperation, then Olivia is the place where everything is located, what you are looking for.

 

Among the factors that prove the utmost care for the comfort, satisfaction, health and safety of people staying at Olivia Centre, there are initiatives implemented in the field of employee well-being, which include numerous interest and passion development clubs, seasonal projects organized on Olivia’s patio, sports sections, exhibitions of paintings, photographs or sculptures made by resident employees and a publicly available, year-round exotic garden, in which there are 4 thousand plants reaching up to 11 meters in height.
Initiatives that employees can use are appreciated, and which are unique opportunities on a global scale.
Certainly one of them is the Olivia Centre Choir, which recorded its first album and has already started concerts in numerous concert halls.
Valuable initiatives also include running clubs, cycling clubs, photography and film courses, and even plant care courses.
From the technical solutions, m.in were taken into account.
the technology of air purification with ions implemented in Olivia, thanks to which all surfaces of the center are continuously free of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens in the air ventilated into the rooms.
This is a technology that has previously been used in the world’s most prestigious facilities, which include the White House, the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi, as well as Gulfstream private jets.
This is done in parallel with raising the level of air filtration to the highest levels currently available and installing sensors for Volatile Organic Compounds and particulate matter (PM).

 

– Once again, we are convinced that commitment to the well-being of our centre’s employees brings measurable results – says Bogusław Wieczorek, the representative of the management board of Olivia Centre.
– The result obtained is a signal for a wide range of stakeholders: employees of companies that they can feel safe in Olivia, because we care about their well-being, and for potential customers it means that by choosing Olivia they can count on a number of added values, which are implemented with a view to the development of their business, supporting their attractiveness in the eyes of contractors and future employees.
The WELL HSR certificate obtained at such a high level is for us both an appreciation of our efforts, but also a clear signal for business that Olivia is the best business center where it is worth doing business.

– Implementing appropriate procedures and taking related actions allowed us to obtain the WELL Health-Safety Rating badge, but it is worth noting that this is a badge that can be obtained after achieving 15 points, i.e. meeting 15 selected from the list of requirements.
Our score – 25 points for each building – is a perfect proof that Olivia’s team is committed to ensuring that our buildings and spaces are conducive to the comfort, well-being, health and safety of users in the best possible way. – Agata Kwapisiewicz, ESG Officer.