Cornerstone ceremony in Kielce - ceremonies at the threshold of Holy Cross investments

The recently launched Kielce Industrial Park, on the serviced land of the former Belgia brewery, is today the most recognisable address for new plants in the city, a branch of the Starachowice Special Economic Zone with ready plots, a hall and office facilities, drawing firms in glass processing and window-joinery components. Here a cornerstone carries particular weight: the investor sets the foundation act on ground that not long ago was post-industrial emptiness and now forms part of the government and ARP project of a New Central Industrial District. We arrange the stage and protocol with this context in mind, with room for the city authorities, the zone management and the contractor.

On the KPP grounds we coordinate with the general contractor and the park services so the ceremony does not clash with the internal road the city is building or with traffic on the serviced plots. We set the platform and the capsule over the symbolic corner of the foundation, plan a zone for the industrial investor and guests and a separate point for the local media. A ceremony run this way presents the former Belgia brewery zone as a living economic organism, not just a building site.

The Kielce Technology Park on Olszewskiego Street, with its modular hall, printing and machining centres and start-up incubators, is the city's business showcase and the manager of the Kielce Subzone under the Starachowice Special Economic Zone. Investments that start here reach for the sectors favoured in the zone: precision engineering, automotive, electronics, building materials and glass processing. We run the cornerstone ceremony in the spirit of this environment, with a foundation act that refers directly to the zone reliefs and the technological character of the investment, because these are the real reasons behind the decision to build.

For aluminium-and-glass systems and joinery plants choosing the Olszewskiego address, we prepare a setting that pairs the formal protocol with a clear message for investors and technology partners. We draft the text of the act, select a tube or time capsule with a full set of documents, plan the speeches and the moment of setting in the foundation. If the investor wishes, we include a blessing led by a clergyman, all in step with the working rhythm of the modular hall, the machining centres and the park's office facilities.

The Marshal's Office on IX Wiekow Kielc Avenue, the town hall on the Market Square and the surrounding provincial offices form a quarter from which provincial, city and government representatives gather for a ceremony. So we plan the cornerstone protocol in this part of Kielce around specific entrances and car parks: the route of the motorcades from IX Wiekow Kielc Avenue, the order of speeches from marshal to mayor to investor, and a VIP zone within walking distance of the Market Square. For investors arriving for shows at the MTK halls on Zakladowa Street, we run the formal part bilingually and sync it with the fair calendar, so MSPO or AGROTECH guests can make the ceremony between meetings.

The proximity of editorial offices and press rooms in the centre of Kielce means coverage of the cornerstone reaches the regional media that same afternoon. So we place the camera point so that the foundation, the tube and the Market Square frontage, or the recognisable building on IX Wiekow Kielc Avenue, fit in one frame. We accredit the crews, indicate space for tripods outside the safety zone and prepare shots of the act being signed against a background that clearly roots the investment in the official heart of the regional capital, not in some anonymous open ground.