ROBERT SEVER CELEBRITYJI - DalCasa

Iznajmljeni su svi poslovni prostori /All of the business
premises have been rented
Prvo splitsko multipleks kino / First mulitpleks cinema
in Split
has excellent lighting, air conditioning and sound qualities.
- All of the business premises, about a hundred of them,
have been rented and the interest is huge, even to
the point that there is a large waiting list. The owner
has no intention of selling the business premises within
the shopping centre, as they are currently rented at
a price of 12-35 euros per square metre. The centre
came about partly due to Mr. Kerum’s private investment
(60 percent) and partly due to the investment by
business partner Immorent Leasing from the Erste Bank
Group (40 percent). We’re hoping that the investments
will pay off within the next ten years as the renting
payments we receive will cover the credit instalments
– says owner’s assistant Danijela Špalj, adding that no
larger work is planned in the foreseeable future apart
from widening the parking lot (currently featuring 380
spaces), which could be accomplished by asking the
City to rent their land just west of the centre.
Engineer Zoran Jaramaz, the main designer of the
project, points out that the shopping centre “Joker” is
the first project that is based on the new General Urban
Plan that was adopted in Split in 2005, and which predicted
a business zone in a location that was previously
held by “Jugoplastika” factories.
- In the beginning, we found three large manufacturing
Centar ima četiri kata koja okružuju golemu galeriju sa
staklenom kupolom na vrhu / The centre has four floors
that surround an enormous gallery with a glass cupola
at the top
“Sukiennenice”, which is the oldest shopping centre
in Europe, is located in Krakow in Poland where we
also find “Rynek Glowny”, the largest square in Europe
(200x200 m). The centre has been in business
for over 700 years, and the way it looks today dates
back to 1555
hall-rooms of the “socialist” type that stood opposite
to the shipyard. Considering they were in pretty good
shape, we took maximum advantage of them. We demolished
a part of the yard, which resulted in a space
for the centre’s gallery that now stands at the intersection
of three streets. We set the new foundations and
started digging the garage, as much as we were allowed
to by the circumstances. The main portion of
the work was preformed by the “Svod” firm with their
subcontractors, and there were sometimes as many as
500 workers in the location. When the glass façade was
assembled near the end of the works, “Joker” finally
became a centre that is not ashamed facing the world
– Jaramaz says, adding that this multi-functional centre
is among the biggest in Dalmatia. The title of the biggest
in Croatia, with its 140.000 square metres, belongs
to the Tower Centre in Rijeka.
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