Olsztyn City Council will allocate nearly PLN 71 million to the creation of a technology park at the Skanda lake.

Cushman & Wakefield’s latest report on the real estate market Marketbeat – Spring 2010 presents an analysis of the office, retail, industrial, hospitality and residential markets as well as the investment market in Poland in 2009. The report also provides forecasts for the future development of the real estate sector.

Infrastructure, which a vast proportion of society does not realise, is an area of the economy in a considerable state of inertia. We need to cope with the results of an error committed in planning an investment project for forty to fifty years, or longer – Zbigniew Szafrański, President of PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA tells Polish Market’s Jerzy Bojanowicz.

”Growth in Polish construction output in 2009 was higher than in industry and the economy as a whole. The construction sector fared well indeed. This was to a great extent due to carrying out big infrastructural projects and EURO 2012-related ventures co-funded by the EU.

A Silesia Economic Forum was held in the southern city of Opole February 25-27. The economic potential of the Silesia macro region was discussed by entrepreneurs, scientists, local government representatives, MPs, MEPs, representatives of business institutions and financial institutions and diplomats from 63 countries.

Two-way trade between Poland and the UK continued to develop in 2009 in spite of the world downturn. It increased by GBP 100 million. 17 British greenfield investment projects were carried out by 15 companies in Poland in 2009.

The crisis has brought on a lively discussion among the aviation community about airports. What ought to be done to increase traffic, how to make it cheaper, for there to be more investments, and how to improve business? Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Infrastructure tackled those questions at an ”Airport 2010” conference in Warsaw.

We want building sites in Poland to use less work-consuming and ineffective technologies which fail to guarantee adequate safety standards, Wiktor Piwkowski, Peri Poland President, tells “Polish Market”.

In the following remarks written for “Polish Market” Andrzej Krzemiński, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Polish Leasing Association and President of EFL SA looks forward to a speedier recovery of the Polish leasing market.