Something old, something new

Like other commercial properties, Galeria Kazimierz is emerging where two worlds meet. In the first, workers are ensuring that the on-site cavity walls prevent Vistula River water seeping through, that the foundation plate is evenly laid and that the Galeria Kazimierz is ready by the end of 2004. This world is ruled by Rafał Elżanowski, construction project manager of Globe Trade Centre. A voice heard in the construction site asks what is to be done with foil delivered by the general contractor but which is faulty and does not fit previous sheets. The reply is - dump them and don't let them tell me it's not their fault - a reply almost as short as the time the busy project manager can spend with Warsaw journalist. The second world is that of negotiations on space letting, under way in Warsaw and Kraków offices. That is the world of Mariusz Kozłowski, GTC Marketing Director and Cushman & Wakefield H&B and Jones Lang LaSalle agents, whose job is leasing the space in the Galer