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THE SECOND LIFE OF ŁÓDŹ FACTORIES A city within a city. With restaurants, a bakery, theatre, art gallery and museum. This is Monopolis. This fashionable and revitalised space – which combines tradition and modernity – a few years ago was one of those places that could have fallen into decline and turned into ruin after the collapse of its industry. The office, entertainment and cultural centre Monopolis is located in the third largest post-industrial complex in Łódź on 62 Kopcińskiego Street. The complex of red-brick buildings was erected at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century and was the home of an alcohol production plant, which operated until the early twenty-first century. When the last bottle of vodka was made on the 27th of April 2007, and the plant ceased its activities on the 1st of June 2008, one of the showpieces of the Łódź factory landscape was waiting for better times. These came in 2013 when a new owner of the whole area appeared – Virako, which
a year later announced that the former a community centre for children. You will ‘Monopol Wódczany’ Spirits Factory be able to relax in two pocket parks and Complex was beginning its transforma- on six green roof terraces. tion into Monopolis. The construction of the Monopolis is The transformation required a lot of work underway. In July this year, a 56-metreand money (according to muratorplus.pl, high crane was ready to erect the other it has so far cost about PLN 150,000,000). office building. Of the twelve storeys, The Monopolis will offer 23,400 square the lower ones will refer to the brick buildmetres of Class A office space, located in ings of the former Polmos facility, while two new office buildings (9 – and 11-storey the upper ones will have a modern glazed high), 5,000 square metres of space form. Not only is the new office building for catering services, a vodka production but the whole Monopolis a combinamuseum, a city gallery and even a private tion of tradition and modernity, most theatre. There will also be a recreational of private revitalisations are carried out swimming pool, a gym, a kindergarten and in a similar manner.
Monopolis – the office, entertainment and cultural centre.
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