On Friday, 7 October 2022, a kick-off conference was held at which the project to build and equip Split Technology Park was presented. The first development phase of the Split Technology Park project represents an investment in the central building, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the projects “Construction and Equipping of the Central Building of Split Technology Park – Dračevac” and “Development of the Dračevac Zone – Split Technology Park – Dračevac”, with a total value of HRK 164,754,315.70, of which HRK 105,074,234.69 is co-financed by European Union grants from the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Programme “Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014–2020”.
Split Mayor Ivica Puljak outlined the chronology of events that led to this important moment, thanking everyone who has been involved from the very beginning in this complex project, one of the most important for the City of Split. “The central building of Split Technology Park is the first part of the project, to be followed by an even more ambitious second part which, I hope, we will deliver in cooperation with private partners. By implementing this project, we want to position Split as a leading centre of high and modern technologies, a centre of regional development, and the most modern city in Croatia and beyond,” said Mayor Puljak.
Marijana Zvonar, representative of Exstructa d.o.o. and project manager, presented the technical details of the future central building of Split Technology Park. Its net floor area of 17,500 m2 will accommodate 5,900 m2 of office space, 460 m2 of co-working space, 697 m2 of incubation offices and 858 m2 of conference space.
Ivan Bota, Director of the Directorate for Regional Development at the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, emphasised that the central building of Split Technology Park is a very good example of integrated investment and the largest single project being implemented by the City of Split in this financial perspective. “Although a great deal of hard work still lies ahead in implementing the project activities, everyone involved in preparing this project knows best how much effort it takes to lay good foundations and to carry out the entire procedure through which the City of Split secured more than HRK 105 million in EU funds for the Technology Park. We believe that, with continued good cooperation between the national and local levels, all contracted projects will be jointly delivered, both those from the 2014–2020 perspective and projects from the upcoming financial perspective, which, in addition to regenerating brownfield sites, will also boost entrepreneurship and thus improve the quality of life of the people in this area,” stressed the Director of the Directorate for Regional Development at the kick-off conference held in the atrium of the City Administration building.
After the speeches, the conference participants went to the construction site, where they were welcomed by representatives of Strabag, the company carrying out the works worth HRK 124,498,144.27. The works began at the end of August this year and are scheduled for completion by the end of October 2023.
See the presentation of the future Technology Park in the attached document:
