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The leading mobility and payment services provider will use space in the office building developed by Forte Partners for its Romanian headquarters.
„We are pleased to reside in new representative premises in the very city center with perfect public transport infrastructure and amenities, built inline with the latest architectonic trends. The office not only complies with environmental goals of the whole Eurowag Group, but also with our intention to provide our employees a benefit of smart and healthy environment where they can work, ” said Victor Ion, Country Manager RO|MD at Eurowag.
Forte Partners announced in September 2023 the completion of construction works at U•Center 2, with a GLA of 35,000 square meters, and that the project is ready to welcome its tenants.
„We are proud that a company like Eurowag, with activities all over Europe, has chosen U•Center 2 for its headquarters in Romania”, said Elena Tecuță, Office Leasing Manager at Forte Partners. „The second phase of the U•Center project is predominantly leased to companies in technology and IT, which attests to the fact that we have created a sustainable, highly digitized product with all the facilities and features of a healthy and modern work and lifestyle. As tenants will move into their spaces, U•Center 2 will expand the business and service community already created in the first phase and will complete one of the most important office hubs in Bucharest”, added Elena Tecuță.
The new lease agreement signed for the space in U•Center 2 comes in a market context characterized this year by a significant drop in deliveries of new office space and their alignment to the conditions of a way of working that has changed significantly.
„We are honored to have played our part as advisors in this journey and look forward to seeing Eurowag thrive in their new location. The decision to relocate represents a pivotal moment that is not just about physical relocation but also represents the embarking on a strategic migration to a state-of-the-art project such as U•Center 2, driven by a confluence of compelling well- being, technology and sustainability factors that promise to augment operational agility, unlock fresh growth opportunities, and fortify competitive advantage in the market”, said Mădălina Iconaru, representative of iO Partners, the agency that assisted the transaction.
The first phase of the U•Center office project was completed in the third quarter of 2021, is fully leased by clients such as Booking Holdings, Endava, Lensa, Up Romania, BT, Neuroaxis, DCS plus and was sold to Pavăl Holding in November 2022.
Prior to the sale, the first phase of the project achieved LEED Platinum certification with a score of 85, one of the highest obtained in Romania for LEED v4 and WELL Health & Safety, and in February 2023 - WELL Platinum certification with a score of 91, the highest recorded in Romania for this typeof certification at the time of its achievement. Forte Partners is currently at an advanced stage to secure all of the very same certifications for the recently delivered U•Center 2.
In line with Forte Partners’ ESG policies and related objectives, the company is ensuring that the buildings it develops are constantly improving in their energy efficiency and carbon footprint. This procedure, aside the certification processes mentioned above, has led to U•Center 2 being a carbon neutral building in operation (S&C), incorporating, among the building’s many improvements, the sourcing of electrical energy from 100% renewable sources, reusing rain water, weather forecasting for higher performance cooling.
