Workers used to associate Tricity mainly with long-awaited holidays. The next associations were shipyards and the fish industry. What is the situation now? When we mention Gdynia, Gdańsk and Sopot, we think of office buildings and foreign investments with increasing frequency. We also think of the SSC/BPO sector. Why is that?
HR potential:
- Gdańsk metropolitan area: 463,754
- Gdynia metropolitan area: 246,991
- Pomerania Province: 2,300,000 inhabitants
- In a 100-kilometre radius: approx. 2,500,000 inhabitants/
Offer of the real estate market:
- office space: 151,000 m2 (in 2016)
- under construction: 150,400 m2
- rent: EUR 12.75–13.5 per square metre per month
An ideal location:
- Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport: 10 km from the centre of Gdańsk and Sopot, travel time: approx. 10 minutes; 23 km from the centre of Gdynia, travel time: approx. 24 mins
- Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway – from Kartuzy to Gdynia Główna (stops next to the airport in Gdańsk)
- Fast Urban Railway – within Tricity and beyond (up to 82 km, Gdynia Główna–Gdańsk Wrzeszcz–Gdańsk Port Lotniczy–Borkowo–Kościerzyna)
- tram, trolleybus and bus lines
Great connections with European Airports such as:
- Frankfurt (FRA) – travel time: 1 hr 35 mins
- Munich (MUC) – travel time: 1 hr 35 mins
- Copenhagen (CPH) – travel time: 1 hr 35 mins
- Warsaw (WAW) – travel time: 55 mins
- Stockholm (NYO) – travel time: 1 hr 15 mins
- Oslo (OSL) – travel time: 1 hr 25 mins
- Krakow (KRK) – travel time: 1 hr 20 mins
- London (STN) – travel time: 2 hrs 10 mins.
Investor Support:
- Business Incubator – Gdańsk Business Incubator “STARTER” and Gdańsk Academic Business Incubator (GABI), Gdynia Business Incubator
- Gdańsk City Hall – Partnership and Business Centre
- Gdynia City Hall – Investor Development and Service Department, Gdynia Centre for Business Support.
Investors – BCC:
- number of BPO/ITO/SSC/R&D centres: 120
- employees in the sector in 2017: 21,000
- employment growth in the years 2016–2017: 2,500
