Saturday, January 28, 2012

Reports and researches

Brookings Institution ranks Katowice

Brookings Institution ranks Katowice

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 20:07

Katowice is among eight metropolitan areas listed as topping commodities growth among 200 global cities surveyed by the Brookings Institution in its newest report. The Brookings Institution, recognized as the world’s number one think tank, revealed the newest edition of its report on the 200 largest metropolitan economies in the world ...

Jones Lang LaSalle summarizes Katowice office market

Jones Lang LaSalle summarizes Katowice office market

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 21:45

Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate consulting company, summarized the office market trends in main Polish cities including Katowice. The report provides a comprehensive review of the office market situation in the City in 2011 and shows predictions for the next twelve months. “Construction activity in the Katowice conurbation ...

City Center Redevelopment

Contract signed for first stage of City Center redevelopment

Contract signed for first stage of City Center redevelopment

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 17:26

The City Hall of Katowice and the Polish-Spanish consortium represented by NDI SA, signed on Wednesday an agreement to conduct the first stage of the City Center redevelopment. The works total PLN 28 million and are divided into four phases. The consortium of NDI and Construcciones Y Promociones Balzola ...

Architectural competition announced for public spaces of Market Square

Architectural competition announced for public spaces of Market Square

Thursday, January 12, 2012 19:03

The City Hall of Katowice announced today an open international competition for an architectural concept of public spaces in the heart of Katowice City Center. An awarded studio will be given a soul-source contract worth PLN 1,6 million ...

Polish-Spanish consortium will be contracted for first stage of City Center redevelopment

Polish-Spanish consortium will be contracted for first stage of City Center redevelopment

Thursday, December 29, 2011 17:57

Polish-Spanish consortium of NDI SA and Construcciones y Promociones Balzola S.A. will be contracted to redevelop the City Center in the area of the Market Square and the Roundabout. None of bidders tendering for the contract lodged an appeal against the decision of the City Hall in the National ...

Katowice Airport

New hotel for Katowice Airport

New hotel for Katowice Airport

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 13:01

The Upper Silesian Aviation Group (GTL), which manages Katowice International Airport, is going to issue a tender for leasing a parcel of land within the airport’s area. The plot is destined for a hotel building. „GTL prepares currently tender documents, the company will call for a bid by the end ...

Tender for new runway at Katowice Airport

Tender for new runway at Katowice Airport

Friday, January 20, 2012 20:04

Next week, authorities of Katowice International Airport are going to issue a tender for conducting a contruction work on a new 3,2 kilometers long runway. The undertaking worth approximately PLN 200 million will be finished in the second half of 2014. The Upper Silesian Aviation Group (GTL), which manages the ...

Events

Draft agenda of EEC 2012

Draft agenda of EEC 2012

Monday, January 23, 2012 13:41

111 days left to inaugurate the European Economic Congress 2012. Today, organizers of this year’s fourth edition of the most important economic event in Central Europe released a draft agenda of the EEC 2012. As the proposed scope of topics has always been prepared in co-operation with panelists, guests and ...

Prospects in Silesia: Against the crisis

Prospects in Silesia: Against the crisis

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 20:21

Bluevine Consulting, in cooperation with the City Hall of Katowice, is organizing a conference “Silesia against the crisis - A trusted location for investment in times of economic uncertainty” as part of the “Prospect in Poland” cycle. It will be the second event of the cycle organized in ...

1st European Congress for SME inaugurated

1st European Congress for SME inaugurated

Thursday, October 6, 2011 20:00

A plenary session attended by Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, City and regional authorities opened today the first European Congress for Small and Medium – Size Enterprises in the Krystyna Bochenek’s Katowice Center of Culture. An organizer of ...