Dutch bank ABN Amro Real Estate Finance and Amsterdam-listed real estate company NSI have launched a competition to collect ideas from market professionals on the redevelopment and/or repositioning of vacant office buildings in the Netherlands. The bank and NSI will assist the three winners to draw up a feasibility plan to realise the projects.
Dutch bank ABN Amro Real Estate Finance and Amsterdam-listed real estate company NSI have launched a competition to collect ideas from market professionals on the redevelopment and/or repositioning of vacant office buildings in the Netherlands. The bank and NSI will assist the three winners to draw up a feasibility plan to realise the projects.
Contestants can enter by two different ways, firstly by providing a plan, in consultation with the owner, for any vacant building. Alternatively, entrants can provide a plan for the redevelopment of NSI's building at Uraniumweg 23 in the Dutch city of Amersfoort.
The best ideas will be selected in consultation with a jury of professionals, comprising Hans de Jonge, chairman of the steering committee to tackle office vacancy in the Netherlands; Nicole Maarsen MRE, chairperson of the commercial real estate commission at Dutch developers organisation Neprom; Cees Busscher, managing director Netherlands, NSI and Robert van Deelen, managing director, ABN Amro Real Estate Finance.
The winners will be announced on 7 June at the Provada trade fair in Amsterdam. The May issue of PropertyEU contains an indepth feature on the problems in the Dutch office market. Click on the following link to subscribe:
