The office space will be enough to accommodate 1,000 to 1,200 people working for the US giant. This is the biggest deal Ioannis Papalekas could sign for Globalworth Campus in Pipera (northern Bucharest) since the deal with Telekom fell through a year ago.
Amazon’s demand for expansion comes less than a year since the signing of a lease for 13,500 square meters in the United Business Center (UBC) 5 in the Palas complex of Iulian Dascalu in Iasi (NE Romania).
The US company is said to have already started looking for people in Bucharest and some of those already selected used to work for the software development center Intel had in the city.
Globalworth Campus on Dimitrie Pompeiu will consist of three buildings with a gross lettable area of 87,800 square meters and 760 parking spots. The first phase of the project, two towers, will have a GLA of 57,000 square meters and be delivered this year.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)