Managing the way ahead
The experience that Mayland Real Estate has gained from projects in locations such as Gdynia (the Wzgórze shopping centre) and Słupsk (the Jantar shopping centre), is a strong basis to build a facility management department servicing other companies. The company currently manages five shopping centres: Karolinka in Opole (70,000 sqm), Pogoria in Dąbrowa Górnicza (37,000 sqm), Jantar in Słupsk (46,000 sqm), Wzgórze in Gdynia (70,000 sqm) and Fort Wola in Warsaw (30,000 sqm); but it is to start an offensive this spring to extend its management offer for retail facilities. "We have the experience needed to offer such services. The redevelopment of the Wzgórze shopping centre in Gdynia has been very complicated because we were operating on a ?living' entity: during the redevelopment the centre hasn't been closed but open as usual. Importantly, construction work is proceeding on schedule and should be completed before the end of the year. We operated in a simi