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Echo Investment has started work on a PLN 500 mln office tower in central Warsaw. Will the Q22 building become the developer's flagship project? About this and the future of the office market in Poland, we spoke to Rafał Mazurczak, the director of the office and hotel department at Echo Investment
Ewa Andrzejewska, 'Eurobuild CEE': It has been one and a half years since you bought a plot in the centre of Warsaw. The market has been interested in what is going to be built there for even longer. Echo concluded a preliminary contract for the purchase of the plot in the middle of 2011. For the acquisition to take place you needed to obtain a site development conditions decision allowing for a 155m skyscraper to be built. Now you are finally launching the long-awaited project.
Rafał Mazurczak, Echo Investment: To start from the beginning, the skyscraper will be called Q22. There were a lot of ideas for the name of this extraordinary project. It could have referred to the address, the location, the name of the developer or the SPV company carrying out the project; it could also have referred to the city, the type of business or the architecture. We opted for Q22. Why? Q is for top quality and Q is for a physical quantity - the effect of the project as a catalyst to change the urban
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