ABB to hire another 1.000 in Krakow

Zürich-based engineering company ABB, which specialises in power and automation technology, has extended its lease from 10,000 sqm to 20,000 sqm in the Axis office building in Kraków.  ABB will occupy the entire building for one of its operational centres in Europe. The first agreement for 50% of Skanska’s building was signed in September 2015, when Axis decided to consolidate several of its Kraków-based departments.

Now the company is also planning further expansion. “We are planning to employ an additional 1,000 specialists by the end of 2018 and the Axis office building meets our company’s development plans,” said Janusz Machnicki, the country real estate manager at ABB.

Axis is Skanska’s second office investment in Kraków, after Kapelanka 42 – a complex of two office buildings. It comprises 20,000 sqm gla and is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year. Skanska fully leased the project and sold it to Swedish investor Niam before its completion. The building has been issued with a LEED ‘Gold’ shell and core green certificate.

In March 2016, Skanska also launched the development of High Five, a project located on ul. Pawia in Kraków close to the Dworzec Główny railway station.