New life for Posejdon
Office & mixed-use developmentOffices, two hotels, a conference centre and a shopping arcade with a combined area of nearly 50,000 sqm is to be constructed by the Posejdon company, which owned by Calbud Nieruchomości and Marcin Woźniak. The centre will offer app. 20,000 sqm of office space, nearly 12,000 sqm of hotel space and over 3,000 sqm of retail and service space as well as 301 parking spaces in a two-level underground car park. The project is to become the largest conference centre in Szczecin with the capacity to accommodate nearly one thousand people. Already half the available space in the centre has been commercialised, which includes two hotel chains and letters of intent for 7,000 sqm of office space and 2,000 sqm of retail space.
“Posejdon, a place that is well-known to every resident of Szczecin, has waited a long time to regain its former glory,” says Marcin Woźniak, a member of the board of Porto. “We have developed an ambitious and modern project that rests on three stable pillars: hotels of the world’s largest chain – Marriott, the most modern offices and a small but well thought-out retail section,” he claims and he goes on to add that Marriott open its two hotels straight away: a four-star Courtyard, for business clients and a three-star Moxy, which is its newest brand. Both hotels are to offer a combined total of 248 rooms for 420 guests. The investor had also announced that it is to create a new public area – a patio with plants, which is to be open to the public, as well as a viewing terrace of nearly 500 sqm on the roof of the building. The design documentation has been prepared by Federacyjne Biuro Architektoniczne. The project is to be completed in July 2019 in an estimated investment of PLN 200 mln. Posejdon dates back to the end of 1920 when the ‘DeFaKa’ chain (Deutsches Familien-Kaufhaus) opened a department store in Szczecin of the same name. It offered stores, restaurants, cafés, a pâtisserie, a pub, a nightclub, a winter garden and a cabaret. Its main attraction was the ‘UFA Palast’ cinema which could seat an audience of 1,200 people. During the war the building was severely damaged with the section that contained the cinema being destroyed and its modernist façade destroyed. What remained of the building was rebuilt after the war, but in a different and more modest form. In 1951, the building was reopened as Powszechny Dom Towarowy Posejdon. It was commonly known as Pdedet and became a symbol of chic and a centre of fashion for many years. In 2009 investment was required and the centre was closed down. Since 2015, the owner of the entire property has been Porto of Szczecin.
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