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Aneta Cichla, ‘Eurobuild CEE’: What plans does Echo Investment have for the retail market in Poland? Perhaps you are focusing on the modernisation and extension of existing shopping centres? Marcin Materny, director of Echo Investment’s shopping centre department: We do not focus on any particular segment. We simply want to carry out good retail projects. We are a long-term investor. We do not plan our projects with the assumption of a quick exit. We want to be the long-term owner of our projects, which is why we focus only on good locations and are very particular in terms of design and we actively manage them after their openings – this can be seen with our shopping centre in Bełchatów, which has been extended and is now Galeria Olimpia, and is also the case with Galeria Echo in Kielce. In both these cases we have substantially extended the projects after ten years in use. We still manage them. Galeria Echo we will soon see the opening of a bathroom furnish