Turning Mordor into Rivendell

The area is infamous for its traffic jams, parking problems and incoherent spatial planning. “It contains more than 1 mln sqm in 75 modern office buildings,” reveals Mateusz Polkowski, an associate director in the research department at JLL. As is emphasised in the report, the lack of a zoning plan at the beginning of the quarter’s development was one of the biggest mistakes. The large majority of the buildings developed there were based on zoning permits, not on a coherent urban concept. This defect has engendered many of the negative issues people associate with the district. “When talking to the companies that have located their offices in Służewiec, we identified several problems. First of all there are the traffic jams, which are a problem for both public and private transport. The insufficient number of parking spaces is another issue. During working hours every inch of space seems to be packed with cars. Another area for improvement is the quality of th