The shopping center will boast 25,000 sqm of leasable space Courtesy of Cushman & Wakefield

Construction on the Galeria Neptun shopping center in Starogard Gdański, in Poland’s northern Pomorskie voivodship, will soon begin now that the development has obtained a building permit.

Construction is due to launch in April, Cushman & Wakefield said in a statement. The firm is both an advisor to the developer and the exclusive agent responsible for the commercialization of the scheme. Completion is expected in spring of 2014.

“Galeria Neptun is the first such large-scale development in Starogard Gdański. The building permit now allows us to carry on working on this project,” Tomasz Daniecki, head of project management at Cushman & Wakefield, said in a statement.

Galeria Neptun, which is being developed by an eponymous company, will be located at the site of a former footwear factory at the junction of ul. Pomorska and Al. Jana Pawła II in the downtown area of Starogard Gdański.

The two-storey scheme will provide 25,000 sqm of leasable space and an underground parking lot with spaces for 618 vehicles.

Cushman & Wakefield has been charged with preparing an application to have the local zoning plan amended, to develop a concept for the building and its vicinity, and to prepare a comprehensive building permit design for the scheme.