UNI Centrum re-loaded

After a year of inactivity and a change of hands, the Katowice UNI Centrum building site will be bustling again soon. Indeed it should be ready in November. But will it find tenants? Despite the quiet holiday season, Katowice seems more buoyant than Warsaw at the moment. In the last issue we reported that the Moonfleet fund had acquired the Silesia Park retail and leisure centre project. Then rumours of Mostostal Zabrze's successful battle for survival and its first negotiations with creditors over debt reduction, followed in July. Soon after that, Reliz became the new owner of UNI Centrum, a 66,400 sqm mixed use complex."Having new owners means we can conduct talks with prospective tenants more easily," says Piotr Gawlikowski, Head of UNI Centrum's Leasing Department, acting on behalf of Business Centre 2000, a company founded by Mostostal Zabrze management and then placed in charge of UNI Centrum. "We are finally certain of completing the investment and in all likelihood, it'll be l