This Friday, 21 June, as part of the Sunny Casais partnership, the Casais Group is inaugurating Corporate First Gaia, a multidisciplinary building that includes the hotel B&B Porto Gaia hotel, and 15 office units. The Mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues, will attend the inauguration.
Located next to Avenida da República 1363 and Praça Eixo Atlântico 43 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Corporate First Gaia covers 12,782.70 square metres and constitutes a total investment of EUR 17.5 million. The design was the brainchild of Fernando Rocha of URBIS.
The 11-storey B&B Porto Gaia is a hotel infrastructure that responds to tourist and business demand, with 210 rooms and 420 beds. The building also has parking spaces for 63 vehicles. This is the seventh B&B built by the Casais Group in Portugal and Spain, and the Group is responsible for developing five hotels in Portugal – in Montijo, Oeiras, Vila Nova de Gaia, Olhão and Guimarães. The B&B Hotels group currently has 15 units in Portugal.
On the west side of Corporate First Gaia is the SITIO Gaia coworking space, which will occupy part of the building built specifically to house offices. This 9-storey unit has some areas specifically for private offices and others designed as social spaces and communal areas. On these nine floors, there are 370 workstations in the 30 available offices, which range in sizes suitable for between 4 and 50 people. The building includes deck areas and social spaces. The unit also has facilities such as meeting rooms and event spaces which are open to all companies in the building.
“After the opening of The First, which is part of the first phase of MITH, at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering, Gaia was next, and now has the receive Corporate First Gaia, which brings together a hotel accommodation unit and a space for companies and entrepreneurs to develop their businesses. In this way, we are supporting the economic development of the municipality and the region. For the Casais Group, it’s important to support the country’s economic development and growth, and in particular the entrepreneurship that this space favours, with the integration of yet another SITIO unit, where startups, growups and small, medium and large enterprises can coexist. This is why Casais itself will occupy one of the floors in Corporate First Gaia, bringing to this space professionals in the areas of digitalisation, sustainability and industrialised construction, so that we can fulfil our role in promoting digital transformation and the construction sector. And so it is with great pride that we inaugurate this building,” says António Carlos Rodrigues, CEO of Casais Group.
The Casais Group operates in 17 countries. In Portugal, it develops various public works projects, such as sustainable construction, infrastructure rehabilitation and public buildings.
