In the heart of Warsaw, at 2 Przeskok Street, the  foundation act was laid to commemorate erection of a office building under the name of Astoria Premium Offices. The construction works are planned to be completed in the middle of next year.

The foundation act was signed by the Vice President of the capital city of Warsaw, Jarosław Jóźwiak, Managing Director of SRE, Thomas Hohwieler, and SRE Business Unit Manager Michael Markart as well as Jarosław Pelc, Manager of the Warsaw Branch and the East of Poland District of General Contractor Strabag Sp. z o.o. The whole ceremony was held in the representative part  of the building on the ground floor at the rotunda of the office building.  The spectacular scenery of the event referred to eco-friendly  elements enhancing the characteristics of the building under  construction.

„With Astoria we took the first step into the Polish market and established a local project team. Therefore I'm very glad that we get the chance to create it at such an exceptional location and thereby contribute to the development of the city centre of Warsaw.  At the same time, we hope it will be a successfull start for our  business in Poland, which we hope to expand in the furute. In fact, we are sure that Poland will become one of our core markets in  the future." - said Thomas Hohwieler, SRE’s Managing Director.

"Astoria is a state-of-the-art, modern looking and sustainable office building. It's façade metamorphoses seamlessly from being almost fully glazed on the side of the Palace of Culture and Sience into the inner-city building with its characteristic windows in the eastern part. The building thereby complements the exisiting frontage of Szpitalna street and provides a continuation of the buildings situated around Warsaw Uprising Square." - adds Michael Markart, the developer responsible for the project at SRE.

The building architectural design will be attractive thanks to new, representative facade made of high quality materials such as glass, metal and stone. Concurrently, the Astoria building will be coherent with the surrounding structures owing to the fact that style-related elements of the neighboring buildings have been finely highlighted  in the building.

The General Contractor, i.e. Strabag Sp. z o.o., has been carrying out construction of the office building in accordance with the assumed schedule. The 10-storey building with total area of 28,000 sqm. is being built in the heart of Warsaw, at 2 Przeskok Street, in the vicinity of a business centre and the Old Town. Public means of transport are easily accessible as the building is situated nearby an underground station and a Fast Urban Rail (SKM) station; accessing the facility by car is also convenient thanks to an underground car park with almost 90 parking spaces. The project is planned to be completed in the first six months of 2016.

There will be almost 16,800 sqm. of office space offered for rent  in Astoria and 1,400 sqm. of retail space as well as two  representative entrance halls. Apart from a modern fit-out, the flexible and efficient office space will make it possible for the users to utilize the space in different ways, i.e. as a single-room arrangement as well as combined office rooms and as an open space office. Strabag Real Estate has been implementing sustainable development principles and has carried out the construction in compliance with LEED Gold certification requirements. Modern and energy-effective solutions such as LED lighting and Concrete Core Tempering system will be implemented in the building under construction. Owing to such solutions the operating costs in case of Astoria will be much lower than in case of „traditional” properties.