The revolution in the office market favours the best. This is how the past year at Olivia Centre can be summed up in a nutshell. Above-average commercialization results, broadening of the spectrum of industries that reside in Olivia and excellent attendance during events in Olivia Star’s event spaces.
The average annual rental result over the last 11 years has been exceeded twice. 30 thous. m.kw. The number of leased space in 2022 is a result that exceeds expectations in such a difficult market situation that affected the entire economy last year. In addition, Olivia managed to achieve a record in the number of contracts signed with new residents, of which there were 18 in total.
Such good commercialization results should be complemented by the renewal of lease agreements by existing residents, which confirms the high level of satisfaction with the offer available to the entire Olivia community and the level of services offered to tenants.
– The revolution on the office market, related to remote and hybrid work, is conducive to Olivia – emphasizes Maciej Kotarski, Director of the Commercialization Department at Olivia Centre. – Companies need fewer offices, but they want to have them in the best and most attractive locations so that employees want to come there. As a result, we have never had so many new resident entries as in 2022; That’s our record. Additionally, Companies limiting their lease space provide perfectly located and well-finished offices, which for many other companies is a unique opportunity to lease prestigious space with exceptional accompanying services offered by Olivia. This allows us to be very optimistic about the forecasts for 2023 in terms of the volume of leased space and the level of occupancy in all buildings, despite the ongoing trend of downsizing offices.
The new tenants include 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. In 2022, companies such as Capgemini, Nike, Graphcore, Softserve, Acaisoft, Sentillia B.V, Just Join IT, Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne, Skills, Squad Poland and Itechart opened their offices in Olivia. Such a result is also a significant stimulus for the development of the entire region. Each of these investments is accompanied by the launch of recruitment processes, which at their peak last year exceeded even 2,000 positions.
The O4 coworking space, operating in four of Olivia’s buildings, can boast similarly high results. Its space in 2022 was leased for an even larger area than was available. Due to the huge interest in leasing, the coworking operator decided to lease the offices it occupies to its clients, temporarily moving its work to other spaces in Olivia.
– The presence of coworking in the business environment is of great value to the entire Olivia. Our tenants are often innovative companies that bring incredibly fresh energy to the O4 community, but also implement creative and extremely interesting projects. These are both smaller enterprises and large corporations that are looking for space to implement short- or long-term projects – says Marta Moksa, director of O4 coworking. The situation in our offices means that we are also growing, as a result of which we are planning to take over more offices that we will be able to offer in the form of coworking in 2023.
Olivia is attracted not only by the class of offices and the level of service provided, but also by additional offers, which have been developed for years in this largest business center in Poland. Among the most acclaimed offers is the exotic Olivia Garden, which in 2022 won the prestigious European Property Awards, known as the architectural Oscar. Equally popular are the top floors of Olivia Star, where there is an observation deck at a height of 130 meters above the ground, and restaurants, run by Paco Perez, winner of the 5***** prestigious Michelin culinary guide on the 33rd floor of this building. This year can also be considered successful for the event and conference center on the 34th floor of Olivia. Jazz, rock and theatre concerts were held in its spaces, and on the stage located 150 meters above the ground, such stars as Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Grabowski, Krzysztof Zalewski, Daria Zawiałow, Wojciech Mazolewski, Leszek Możdżer and Grzegorz Markowski performed. And on New Year’s Eve, former Genesis singer Ray Wilson closed the year 2022 with a concert.
Olivia Centre in Gdańsk is the largest and most modern office and business center in the Tri-City agglomeration. Its target size will significantly exceed 200,000 sq m, and already amounts to 175,000 sq m, which has made Olivia Centre the largest office project in Poland. Olivia’s largest residents include Airhelp, Amazon, Arrow, Bayer, Deloitte, Energa, EPAM, Fujifilm, Nordea, PwC, Ricoh, Sii, Staples, ThyssenKrupp.
At the same time, Olivia Centre is much more than buildings. Several hundred business, educational, cultural and sports events take place here throughout the year. A unique combination of services and amenities for tenants and guests has been created in the office center, which consists of eight restaurants, 4 cafes, a professional two-storey fitness center, a nursery and kindergarten for 100 children, a primary school, a high school, an IT academy, a medical center, a dentist’s office, a pharmacy, 5 bank customer service points and 5 conference centers, O4 – one of the largest coworking spaces in Poland, but at the same time a vast patio filled with vegetation, fountains and places to relax. In the spring of 2021. Olivia Centre has been subjected to the most restrictive analysis conducted by experts from the International Well Building Institute (IWBI) in New York. The safety of building users was checked, as well as solutions improving the quality of life in the business centre, also in the context of the ongoing pandemic. Olivia received the maximum score of 25 out of 25 points. It achieved this result in 22 basic categories and in 3 new ones related to the innovations implemented in its area. This is the first such result in the world, which confirms that Gdańsk’s buildings are among the world’s top business leaders, especially since the 2022 re-categorization confirmed the result obtained a year earlier. Other OBC buildings receive high marks from BREEAM ecological certification from excellent to very good.
In July 2019, on the 32nd, 33rd and 34th floor of Olivia Star, the highest building in northern Polish, a project was launched, constituting a unique, additional offer attracting guests from all over the world to Olivia Centre. On the 32nd floor, a public viewing level has been opened, allowing a 360-degree view. for the whole Tri-City. It offers not only a stunning panorama of the Bay of Gdańsk, the Tri-City Landscape Park and the Gdynia cliff coast, but also originally designed interiors, catering and recreational facilities. On the 33rd floor of the building there are two prestigious restaurants: Arco and Treinta y Tres, run by Paco Pérez, one of the most successful chefs in the world. On the 34th floor, at a height of nearly 160 meters above the ground, a multifunctional conference center located the highest in Poland has been created.
Located on the ground floor of Olivia Star, the exotic Olivia Garden is a green enclave in the heart of the Olivia Centre. The garden offers an area of 740 m2 with a height of 9 m, with a mezzanine of more than 100m2 . The garden was planted with 4,000 plants representing more than 150 species. In 2021 won an award in the CIJ Awards Poland competition, in the Best Interior/Exterior Design category, and in 2022 the European Property Award. The aim of the project was to create a space that would allow you to relax, calm down and rebuild your inner harmony, which is extremely pleasant among such a large number of delightful plants reaching up to 11 meters in height. Olivia Garden’s space complemented the concept of a modern centre open to employees and residents of the Tri-City, where the needs of stakeholders are treated as a priority.
Olivia offers over 1600 parking spaces, a number of electric car charging points, points for storing and charging electric scooters, several hundred bicycle racks and large changing rooms with showers for cyclists in each of the 8 buildings.
