Enter the Atrium

So what’s so special about Atrium Poland Real Estate Management that a jury made up of the top managers of 21 of some of the most significant players on the local real estate market decided that it deserves the title of Polish Retail Developer of the Decade? Its development in Poland gained momentum in 2011 with the purchase of the Promenada shopping centre in Warsaw. “The acquisition was extremely difficult, because we had to convince people that we were a serious buyer and build a reputation as people who could deliver and complete a complicated large-scale transaction. At this stage we were not known in the Polish market and needed to establish the Atrium brand,” recalls Liad Barzilai, the CEO of Atrium European Real Estate. Its Warsaw debut took place when the world had only just started recovering from the credit crunch. “This was one of the first big deals after the financial markets were plunged into turmoil,” he adds. Actually, this also marked a