How to seduce tenants

Instead of financial lures, developers are now offering companies offices in buildings with unique designs, the option of leaving children in a kindergarten and limousine services for tenants’ managerial staff. The day of the incentive is drawing to a closeFor an office to become competitive it must offer much more than just a good location, attractive tenancy conditions and flexible space. Włodzimierz Jędruszak, a member of the board of GD&K Consulting, the Kraków-based development company, stresses that the experience of western European countries is that what is fashionable today can rapidly become a standard – and not only in Warsaw. Katarzyna Szyndlar, who is director of the investment consultancy department for Metropolis Commercial Real Estate – a company with projects in the Upper Silesia conurbation, adds: “This is why developers and owners of buildings must be aware that tenants have to be offered additional titbits.” Canteens and fitness