The celebration took place on June 29, 2010 on the development site, located near the junction of the A1 and A4 highway in Gliwice. The following people took part in the inauguration: the President of Gliwice, Zygmunt Frankiewicz, the Silesian Voivode, Adam Matusiewiczm, the developer Panattoni Europe, represented by Robert Dobrzycki , CEE Managing Partner, Czeslaw Grzesiak , Vice President of Tesco Polska together with Tomas Kubza, Warehouse Operations Manager and Tadeusz Wesolowski, President of Radan, former owner of the land and the local partner of Panattoni.

The erection act, signed both by the highest city officials as well as the developer and investor, was consecrated and cemented by Prelate Bernard Koj, the Chancellor of the Diocese in Gliwice.

Robert Dobrzycki, CEE Managing Partner stated, "Today’s celebration is exceptional, not only because of the investment, but also its significance for the city authorities and the media”, and added, "Thanks to the intense cooperation with all city entities, the project is going according to schedule. The investment will be delivered as planned in 2010.”

"Tesco has its shops not only in Poland, but also in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Today Europe is borderless. We have a chance to develop better and more efficient cooperation, while individual countries compete over the best investments," said Czeslaw Grzesiak, Vice President of Tesco Polska. "The same can be said about this investment. The warehouse in Gliwice, after additional investments, and obtaining public support, can become a distribution node not only for southern Poland, but across all of Central Europe. Gliwice might have a pan-European warehouse".

The investment executed by Panattoni Europe is the largest building in the industrial real estate market. It includes the construction of a Build-to-Suit (BTS) facility, dedicated for the industry leader, British Tesco, hypermarket chain. The investment comprises 57,000 m² of warehouse space, of which 13,800 m² is cooling space, 440 parking places, 80 parking spaces for trailers and 36 spaces for trucks. It will also have its own gas station and a garage with a washing station for trailers, 3 offices constituting the external parts of the building, 15% glass roofing and the capacity to employ 300 people for each three 8-hour shift.

Not only will the Tesco distribution center stand in the center of the Silesian agglomeration, but also in the logistics heart of Europe. The facility is located near the Gliwice-Sosnica node, which joins two trans-European networks. The node will accommodate four-direction international traffic (north, south, east, west) and six-direction national traffic (additionally north-western and south-eastern). At the moment the node enables access to Berlin, Dresden, Lvov, Prague and Vienna. In the future it will be possible to travel to Helsinki and Stockholm as well. More details can be found on the company’s new website: www.panattoni.pl