150 mln złoty

The buildings of the Monopol vodka distillery, which date back to 1902, are to be revitalised to form an office and service complex with restaurants, a swimming pool and spa, a crèche and a kindergarten – as well as a museum and a theatre. A total of 23,400 sqm out of a total area of 29,000 sqm is to be office space. A building permit has already been granted and work is set to start later this year. “These days, an office block – no matter how modern it may be – is simply not enough. A workplace is no longer just a seat at a desk and a telephone from nine to five. It’s not even an office fitted out in an interesting way with hammocks and playstations. It’s a comfortable space where we can spend our time – you can take your laptops and phones and work outside. You can go down to the café below, meet a client in a restaurant, and leave your child at the crèche next door,” says Krzysztof Witkowski, the CEO of Virako. The office space is to be built in the historic main distillery building as well as in two new blocks that are to be built. M1, the former distillery building, will contain 7,000 sqm of offices, while buildings M2 and M3 will have 8,000 sqm and 8,500 sqm of office space respectively. The design is by Grupa 5 Architekci in collaboration with the Łodź-based architectural studio of Jerzy Lutomski. The first part of the project involves the restoration and revitalisation of the old buildings, which should be completed by H2 2018. The M2 and M3 buildings are to be built in the project’s later stages and should be completed in 2019 and 2020, respectively. JLL has been selected as the exclusive agent for the marketing and commercialisation of the project.