Stradale will open a restaurant on the ground floor of the first phase of the U•Center office project in Bucharest

Stradale, a Romanian restaurant chain with menus created by Chef Foa, leased an area of 827 square meters in the office project developed by Forte Partners in the Tineretului area of Bucharest.

Forte Partners, a leading Romanian real estate developer, announces that with the lease of the 827 sqm space on the ground floor of the first phase of the U•Center project, where a new Stradale restaurant will be opened, the 25th location within the Flavours group, the retail component of the building reaches an occupancy rate of 100%.

“We are always carefully choosing our partners with whom we enter new projects, and Forte Partners is a partner that we have wanted for a long time, U•Center being only a first project that we will develop together. With the opening of Stradale in U•Center, we are expanding our network in a new area of Bucharest, thus managing to reach as many corporate clients as possible, close to their office or home, this mix being the direction in which we are increasingly focusing our attention,” said Bogdan Tiu, General Director of Flavours Group.

“With this new Stradale location, we are opening not only a restaurant, but an event space, a perfect place for corporate and private parties, and a social hub for the community in the area. The space will also benefit from a Mitzu cafe, and the menus are, as our customers are already used, inspired by cuisines from all over the world and reinterpreted, prepared live on the spot, in front of customers,” added Chef Foa.

“We are glad that Stradale chose U•Center for a new restaurant in its chain, because we are thus able to offer the employees working in the building, as well as the local community, a special culinary experience, signed by Chef Foa,” said Elena Tecuță, Office Leasing Manager of Forte Partners. “This choice is a confirmation of our strategy to offer all the amenities and features of modern and comfortable urban living, in sustainable and energy-efficient buildings, with easy access to public transport, shops and other social amenities.”

Forte Partners recently announced the sale to Pavăl Holding of the first phase of the U•Center office project, leased to companies such as Booking Holdings, Endava, Lensa, Sweat Concept, Up Romania, BT, Neuroaxis, DCS plus. The office building, inaugurated in the third quarter of 2021, obtained the LEED Platinum certifications with a score of 85, one of the highest obtained in Romania in the LEED v4 version and WELL Health&Safety, which attests to the safety of the building from a sanitary point of view. Forte Partners aims to obtain the same certifications for the second phase of the U•Center project, which is currently under construction and will be completed in the third quarter of 2023.

The two phases of U•Center, an office project 100% powered by electricity from renewable sources, including the construction site of the second phase, have a GLA of 66,000 square meters of office space, including a retail component on the ground floors of the buildings. U•Center is located on Calea Șerban Vodă, having easy access to Tineretului and Carol parks, a short distance from Tineretului metro station, a 10-minute walk away from the Timpuri Noi metro station, and having easy access to surface public transport (tram, bus).