Airport cities – all set for take-off?

The plan at Gdańsk Airport is to develop another seven buildings, each also named after the aviation alphabet and with a combined leasable area of around 110,000 sqm. Building permits are already in place for the next two buildings. But the novel thing about the whole scheme – at least in our part of the world – is that the developer is the airport itself. “It was about ten years ago that we first considered developing this project,” recalls Michał Dargacz, the director of Airport City Gdańsk. “We have always been dedicated to sustainability at Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport – even with our aviation business, the idea was to maintain a balance between traditional and budget airlines. The former attract mostly business passengers, which on the one hand provides us with relatively low seasonal fluctuations compared to airports that focus exclusively on holiday flights, and on the other hand, has confirmed the significant business potential of the re