Future perfect?

Some time ago I was having this precise argument once again with my husband. So why is it always an argument? Well, he’s more interested in the future, because why bother going back and looking at things that have already happened – particularly if they were documented at the time, even if only in fragmentary form. My mind actually agrees with him, but then my heart always enters the game and says – depending on the book, film or play that I’ve recently read or seen and that has left an impression on me – that it would be nice to stroll down the streets of nineteenth-century Łódź or pre-war Warsaw, when it was known as the ‘Pearl of the North’... I recalled this dispute when thinking about our conversation with the esteemed individual who graces the cover of the October issue of our magazine. In this one case, I would not think twice: I would definitely like to travel forward in time to see the fate of Przemysław Krych’s projects: how he is going to change the face of Warsaw and the balance of power on the Polish real estate market, and how much of what he professes to be planning actually takes place. And his plans are indeed intriguing. Which reminds me of something I once read about Wisława Szymborska: whenever a journalist asked the Noble prize-winning poet a question she considered to be good, she would say that she couldn’t give an instant reply because she had to think about it; and if it was a particularly good question, then it needed turning into a poem, and this sometimes took years to write. Fortunately, the head of Griffin Real Estate only gave rapid, eager answers to our questions (perhaps the questions weren’t so good?) – and you can find out what they were in the interview entitled ‘Griffin Sharpens its Claws’. We also discuss purchases, acquisitions, the investment climate and investors’ moods with analysts, bankers and investors themselves. More views are likely to be shared at the upcoming Expo Real fair in Munich, where we hope to be seeing you too.