Renoma is presenting new spaces. What can you find on the first floor today?

History from the architect

The Wertheim family demolished 12 tenement houses and the luxurious Residenz hotel, built several decades earlier, to make way for a department store (which at the time was to compete with the giant Barash Brothers store, now Feniks).

"The revitalization of Renoma took almost five years. The Wertheim family built this facility, including the earlier demolition, in eight months,” said Zbigniew Maćków, the architect responsible for Renoma’s reconstruction, during a briefing on Thursday, June 5, dedicated to presenting the new offices.

The Wertheims purchased a steelworks in Wałbrzych solely for the purpose of constructing the building. The steelworks produced almost 4,000 tons of steel, all of which went to today's Renoma. The family later sold the steelworks at a profit.

_{Zbigniew Maćków}

A mixed-use building modeled on Wertheim

In fact, this 95th birthday is an opportunity for us to communicate that we are enriching the current offer of the mixed-use building with another function being introduced to the facility. Renoma was established as a luxury department store.

_{Barbara Wójcik, Asset Management and Leasing Director}

Although Renoma has changed significantly over the years, it has not lost its status in the city. Wertheim built his department store for the growing middle class, and during the communist era, the State Department Store was a symbol of luxury that few could afford. Today, Renoma continues to transform, but there are no longer any shops on the upper floors. Instead, there are office spaces, paid “per workstation,” with a shared space.

“Decades have passed, and many changes have taken place on the local market, but also in consumer attitudes and expectations. Shopping trends have changed, which meant that the building needed another transformation,” said Barbara Wójcik. “I may be immodest, but I feel that Georg Wertheim would be pleased with these changes,” she added.

Offices charged “per workstation”

We conducted several consumer and technical analyses. In 2020, under the continued supervision of Zbigniew Maćkow, we enlarged and restored the historic atriums to their original shape. Currently, we have retail and catering space on two floors, as well as office space on the upper floors. Today, we are introducing a new brand: Ace of Space.

Ace of Space is office space paid “per workstation.” Employees share kitchens, restrooms, a chill-out zone, conference rooms, “phone booths” where you can make calls in peace, and even a podcast studio. All spaces and amenities, such as a bicycle zone with showers or a herb garden in the center of one of the kitchens, are shared, regardless of whether you rent a chair in the coworking zone or an office for 40 employees.

Ace of Space is a complementary offer to traditional leasing, providing flexible offices that are ready to move into immediately. These are long- and short-term leases, not only for office space, but also for meeting rooms and collaboration spaces.

_{Magdalena Śnieżek, Head of Flexible Office Solutions at Globalworth Poland}

The decor of the shared office hallways is complemented by paintings rented by Globalworth Poland from the Krupa Gallery foundation.

Renoma was way ahead of its time

Although on March 6, 1945, an incendiary bomb fell on the department store and the building burned for three days, it still stands, operates, and competes with much younger buildings.

All these modern recommendations - three Rs: rebuild, rethink, reuse, and maybe recycle in the future - which we use as a yardstick for today's buildings, mean that some structures just can't hold up. Solpol is gone, and Arkady Wrocławskie is about to disappear. Renoma, on the other hand, has been around for 95 years, will live to see hundreds more, and perhaps even a second century, simply because it was designed in line with this philosophy.

_{Zbigniew Maćków}