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Skanska sold the Centrum Południe office building in Wroclaw for €62 million

Skanska sold the Centrum Południe office building in Wrocław for €62 million. This is the Swedish company's largest investment in Lower Silesia. The transaction confirms the city's strong position on the domestic office market. In this ranking, Wrocław is surpassed only by Warsaw and Kraków.

A Wrocław business center with the largest office buildings is being built next to Sky Tower

Before the war, there were residences and tenement houses of wealthy Wrocław residents. In the 1980s, people went there to the circus, and in 1997, Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass there at the end of the International Eucharistic Congress.

Now, at the intersection of Powstańców Śląskich and Szczęśliwa streets, Skanska is building Centrum Południe. The five buildings will offer 85,000 sq m of office, retail and service space. The Swedish company has just sold one of the office buildings constructed there.

Skanska has finalized the sale of an office building (the second stage of the investment) in the Centrum Południe complex in Wrocław to the Czech fund INVESTIKA Real Estate Fund and BUD HOLDINGS (based in Luxembourg), operating as a joint venture, for EUR 62 million,

according to the investor.

Centrum Południe is Skanska's largest investment

The sold Centrum Południe office building offers over 21,500 sq m of office and retail space. It consists of 15 above-ground floors and two underground floors. The sole tenant of the office building is the American bank BNY Mellon (Bank New York Mellon), which occupies all 13 floors of the building – the bank moved in there in June 2024.

This transaction confirms that regional office markets are attracting the interest of investors who are mainly looking for top-class properties that meet sustainability standards

Mariusz Krzak, Executive Vice President of Operations Poland, Skanska Commercial Development Europe.

The strategy of the INVESTIKA Real Estate Fund is to strengthen its presence in the most important, dynamically developing regional markets in Poland. We focus on high-quality commercial space in excellent business locations, with reliable and proven tenants.

Jaroslav Kysela, member of the management board of INVESTIKA, the investment company managing the fund.

Centrum Południe collects certificates

Centrum Południe, designed in accordance with ESG principles, has been awarded the highest LEED Platinum environmental certificate.

  • The building is entirely powered by renewable energy.
  • The technologies used allow for a reduction in energy consumption by up to 39% and water consumption by as much as 58% compared to certification standards.
  • Such high savings are possible thanks to the use of cooling beams and a water recovery system, among other things.

Centrum Południe has two prestigious certificates: WELL Gold and Barrier-Free Facility. “In addition, the building’s surroundings are open to the local community, who can use the basketball court and swings or relax among the greenery,” says the investor.

  • Green areas account for nearly 25% of the entire complex, and their design was based on an ecological analysis and biodiversity assessment prepared specifically for this investment.
  • Rain gardens, an anti-smog sidewalk, and even a large mural made with photocatalytic paints by Zuzanna Wollna have been placed here.

This is the first investment in the capital of Lower Silesia to use green concrete. In the first stage, approximately 1,380 sq m of anti-smog pavement was created to help neutralize pollution emitted by cars. Interestingly, Centrum Południe is powered by electricity from a wind farm.

The Swedes are betting on Wrocław. They have been building Centrum Południe since 2019

The Centrum Południe business complex in Wrocław is the largest construction project by the Swedish company Skanska in the capital of Lower Silesia. In April 2019, the cornerstone for Centrum Południe was laid [PHOTOS].

The first stage of Centrum Południe. The office building rose 11 cm per hour

An interesting construction fact is that during the first stage of the complex's construction, a technique known as “sliding” was used to build the office building's core. Thanks to a special concrete mix and a platform that rose along with the building, construction proceeded at a rate of about 11 centimeters per hour, around the clock. In this way, the 14 floors of the office building's core were built in just 3 weeks.