Olivia Centre, the largest business centre in Poland, benefits from market changes. It develops its offer, adapts to the dynamically changing reality and prepares new projects that allow it to open up to new markets and constantly increase its attractiveness.

The continuing model of remote and hybrid work causes companies to optimize their space. This leads to a difficult situation in facilities of a lower standard, from where tenants move to attractive areas vacated by the largest corporations. For them, this means an opportunity to move to representative facilities and expand business opportunities in a new environment.

In large and modern business centers, this allows for the creation of a larger mix of industries, and thus greater independence from temporary turbulence in individual sectors of the economy, stability and predictability of business. It also allows for the creation of more diverse business hubs, and therefore a better functioning business ecosystem for tenants. The suspension of construction of new office buildings creates a lot of opportunities for existing office centers and causes developing tenants to look for space in existing facilities. This is conducive to the commercialization of high-class building surfaces, the competitiveness of which has been growing in the eyes of smaller enterprises in recent years.

The above theses are confirmed by numbers.

• Olivia Centre closed 2024 with commercialization agreements for nearly 35 thousand spaces. m.kw.
• The agreements covered 9 new residents, including Navblue from the Airbus group, Adampol, Adar, Aker, Archer, Dac.Digital and Masterlease.
• 4 large existing residents have also extended their existing contracts: EPAM, Capgemini, Lyreco and Arrow.
• Olivia has also expanded its offer of services with new catering (Zachcianki) and entertainment establishments: the PIXEL XL play and integration center, loved by families and young people, which has moved into a vast premises in Olivia Prime.
• The new agreement also covered the branch of one of the most popular banks in Poland, but this agreement remains under a confidentiality clause at this stage.

Olivia has also started a real green revolution in its area: the patio areas are gradually undergoing a metamorphosis, as part of which the pavements are being turned into pocket gardens, green areas and places of meeting and relaxation for Olivia’s resident employees. In the spring, a real attraction is also being prepared for them: two outdoor beach volleyball courts, which will be the next edition of the project of sports clubs and employee integration through sport.

– Year by year, Olivia is growing – it is becoming more and more friendly, open and attractive to everyone: from resident employees, through residents of the Tri-City, to tourists – says Maciej Kotarski, director of Olivia Centre. – Recent years have also allowed us to increase our flexibility and tenant mix, which has taught us a lot and also shown us new business paths. Once again, it turns out that flexibility is the key, and even difficult business conditions can be market opportunities that our team has learned to take advantage of.

O4 Coworking operating in Olivia can boast of great successes. In three of the four buildings in which it offers offices, it has 100% leased space. In 2024, as many as 35 companies joined O4, expanding the O4 community by another 180 people. In this way, coworking maintains its dominant position on the Tri-City market and continues to develop its business.

As Marta Moksa, director of O4, emphasizes, integration, support for internal processes and response to the needs of O4 residents are also priorities for the coming years: “Our experience in working with our tenants has taught us to respond perfectly to their changing needs. We focus on the offer that allows them to develop dynamically, we relieve them of the need for active and often difficult recruitment, as well as integrate and develop competences. This trend allows us to attract more and more companies that feel measurable benefits from choosing O4. On top of that, there is the opportunity to collaborate with creative and dynamic start-ups, and something that, in these times of remote work, is hard to overestimate: we have an active, ever-present community that attracts people to work in the office. Working at O4, employees are always assured to come into a bustling office, be part of a vibrant community, and feel like the good old days when offices were bustling every day.

O4 focuses on the organization of a number of events that make the event calendar of coworking filled to the brim with meetings, trainings and integrations, as well as special projects. O4 closed 2024 with 15 networking meetings, a large LeadWell conference, aimed at resident management and external guests, attended by 120 people. Recruitment support was provided to 20 companies, for which speed recruitment dates were organized in cooperation with local universities. Speed dating at O4 is not only a chance for employees and employers to get to know each other during intensive personal meetings, but also training and workshops preparing young people to enter the labour market. In 2024, 100 students and almost the same number of students from schools in the Pomeranian Voivodeship took part in them.

Olivia expands its offer and improves the quality of space every year, thanks to which it welcomes new residents every year – says Bogusław Wieczorek, representative of the management board of Olivia Centre. The success of our projects in recent years shows that this is the right direction and will continue in the coming years. We want to develop our offer for residents, be part of a dynamically developing, open city and increase the attractiveness of Gdańsk for investors and employees.