Finnish developer YIT has been awarded a construction permit for a mixed-use complex next to the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk.
The complex is to be built on a 1.5 ha site surrounded by the streets of ul. Nowomiejska, ul. Popiełuszki and ul. Jaracza and will have a useable area of over 40,500 sqm with 243 apartments, 156 micro-apartments and 23,000 sqm of offices. Construction work is scheduled to begin in the second part of the year. The complex is to be BREEAM certified.
The investment was designed by renowned architect profesor Rainer Mahlamäki of Lahdelma&Mahlamäki Architects, the designer of POLIN Museum in Warsaw. The look of the building in Gdańsk was inspired by by the industrial heritage of the local shipyards, ships and dunes, developer says.
