Investing in Poland 2011
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Voivodships
Toruń
Toruń is a city with strong name-brand recognition in Poland. It calls to mind beautiful Gothic buildings, warm gingerbread and astronomy (it was the home of Nicolaus Copernicus, after all). The city also serves as Kujawsko-Pomorskie’s second capital and the administrative seat of its marshall. Although it is synonymous with tourism and culture, Toruń is looking to the future. Its authorities describe the city as one of the fastest-developing cities in Poland, and a 2009 survey by Forbes Polska ranked it as Poland’s “most attractive large city” (150300,000 inhabitants) for investment. The city has good road and train connections with Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań and Szczecin. Construction of the A1 motorway, once completed, will make Toruń the midway point for the majority of traffic between Łódź and Tri-city. The city is especially open to new investment in the service, culture, environmentally friendly new technologies and tourism sectors. One recent investor from the latter sector is B&B Hotels, a French network which chose Toruń as the site of its first Polish investment. Another French firm, Accor, has also invested in the construction of two hotels. Toruń offers tax reliefs for new investments or the creation of new jobs, as well as real estate tax exemptions for many publicuse sports or recreational investments. A number of local institutions support entrepreneurship and investors. It’s also worth noting the presence of a nearby subzone of the Pomeranian Special Economic Zone, located six kilometers away in Ostaszewo.
Mayor: Michał Zaleski Area code: 56 Area: 116 sq km Population (Dec 2009): 205,718 Working-age population (Dec 2009): 137,413 Unemployment rate ( June 2010): 7.6% Percentage of city covered by zoning plans: 43.40% Recent major investors: Accor, B&B Hotels Contacts: Toruń City Hall Investor’s Office www.torun.eboi.eu Wały Gen. Sikorskiego 8, 87-100 Toruń (+48) 56 611 86 99, 6 (+48) 56 611 86 54 % @ boi@um.torun.pl Adam Zakrzewski, head of office, English speaker: @ boi@um.torun.pl, % (+48) 56 611 86 99 Urszula Murawska, English speaker: @ boi@um.torun.pl, % (+48) 56 611 86 55
other major cities
Working-age
Unemployment
population
(June 2010)
117,402
77092
52 sq km
99,074
52
30 sq km
Wacław Bronisław Derlicki
56
Tadeusz Grzegorz Pogoda
52
City
Mayor
Area code
Area
Population
Zoned area
contact info
Włocławek
Andrzej Pałucki
54
84 sq km
17.2%
WND
www.wloclawek.pl; poczta@um.wloclawek.pl
Grudziądz
Robert Malinowski
56
64230
20.8%
WND
www.grudziadz.pl; boi@um.grudziadz.pl
Inowrocław
Ryszard Brejza
76,137
107,472*
20.3%*
WND
www.inowroclaw.pl; urzad@inowroclaw.pl
Brodnica
23 sq km
27,740
47,880*
13.2%*
WND
http://brodnica.miasto.biz; umb@brodnica.pl
Świecie
12 sq km
25,635
63,464*
16.7%*
WND
www.um-swiecie.pl; urzad-miejski@um-swiecie.pl
*Local county data
WND = would not disclosE