Lux-Airport, Luxembourg’s airport managing authority, is planning to build a new business centre – the Skypark Business Centre South – on its premises at Findel.
The construction of the 10,000-15,000 square-metre (sqm) complex, due to start in 2019 and completed by 2021-22, will include offices, shops, restaurants, a fitness centre and kindergarten facilities, as well as 2,000 parking spaces.
The project will be located next to Terminal A along the gateway to Terminal B.
The surface space for offices could be extended to as much as 40,000 sqm in a future phase, lux-Air said.
The project, based on a master plan released in 2016, will cost €25 million to €35 million for this first phase, according to René Steinhaus, the recently appointed chief executive at lux-Airport.
Asked by the Luxembourg Times about the details of the investment, Steinhaus said he could not provide further information at this early stage of the project.
“It’s too early to have a clear idea of the expected return on investment of the project,” he added. “We only have estimates.”
Asked about lux-Airport’s contribution to the overall budget, Steinhaus replied that “the investment was the core business of lux-Airport – it’s part of its business model for the future”.
He added that the tenants of the shops and restaurants would be “local rather than international players, as it has always been”.
He declined, however, to provide figures about the average rental price per sqm the businesses will have to pay.
The wooden-structured complex will include photovoltaic solar cells, rainwater collection, and green roofs and terraces.
Lux-Airport said the complex would become a “reference building concerning sustainability and environmental awareness”.
BIG, a Danish architect office based in Copenhagen, London and New York, designed the complex.
It collaborated locally with Metaform, an architect office co-appointed to design the first Velodrome in Luxembourg.
Lux-Airport is a public limited company with share capital of €500,000, incorporated on 19 February 2001.
Its mission includes the construction, financing and operation of Findel airport’s main and small terminals, their connecting bridge and the underground car park near the new terminal.
It also includes the property management and the technical and commercial operation of Luxembourg Airport.
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