Pride, never repentance

When Jeroen van der Toolen became Managing Director of Ghelamco Poland exactly one year ago he took that opportunity to present new projects which his company was to deliver. And since all that happened just prior to the MIPIM fair, better advertising would have been inconceivable. Today we shall call those promises he made to account. Initially Ghelamco was to build two warehouse blocks. Retail warehouses were to be constructed in Janki, the Warsaw suburb, with a floor space of 19,600 sqm, while a Krakowska Distribution Park with a shed of 10,000 sqm was envisaged at Szyszkowa Street in Warsaw. So what is happening to those projects today? Not much, really. Ghelamco also announced it would start constructing two new office buildings in Warsaw: one in the city centre, the other in Wola district. The small Zaułek Piękna offering 8,000 sqm in the very centre of the city was to have been built last spring, while building machines were to have entered the site of a