Great success for the opening of Cecil Mansion of LAMDA Development

Wednesday, October 2nd 2002

Great success for the opening of Cecil Mansion of LAMDA Development

Within a climate of great joy and with the blessing of His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Bartholomew, took place the official opening ceremony of the Cecil Mansion, the former historical hotel of Kifissia, which has been renovated into an ultramodern and luxurious complex of offices by LAMDA Development S.A. Group of Companies. The celebration took place while the Increase of the Share Capital of the company is evolving, and will be completed on Tuesday, October the 8th 2002.

The ceremony included blessings and holy water rites conducted by His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Bartholomy, who was accompanied by His Holiness the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Mr. Christodoulos. During his salutation, his Holiness congratulated Latsis family and LAMDA Development for the completion and renovation of a building that combines the characteristics of functionality and aesthetics and having congratulated all stakeholders of the project, he wished that there be imitators of such an achievement.

The opening ceremony started at 20:15 with the greeting of Mrs. Marianna Latsi, who stressed among others: «It is a great honor for all of us to have tonight his Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Bartholomy and we thank him from the bottom of our heart for being with us …. On behalf of my Family, I would like to address a great thank you to LAMDA Development, to all those who struggled and contributed to the renovation and reconstruction of the old hotel into an ultramodern complex of offices, and I would like to wish to the new tenants of the Mansion to have success and development and to add glory to the history of Cecil.»

In a short introduction, the Managing Director of LAMDA Development, Mr. Lambros Anagnostopoulos, commented: «In a globally difficult era, the completion and full letting of the Cecil Mansion is one of our successes in the last twelve months. It is not the only one though. Today, we implement an investment plan of € 700 million, thus creating significant possibilities of fast development for our company.»

The ceremonial part was completed under the sounds of the Typaldos child chorus. Then followed a reception attended by distinguished members of the government and the broader political sector, ambassadors from many countries, well known entrepreneurs, local actors, representatives of the reporting and artistic sector, among which were the Ministers Mr. N. Sifounakis, G. Lianis, and E. Kourkoula, from the Opposing Party came the Honorary President Mr. K. Mitsotakis, M. Evert, V. Polydoras, Mrs. Fani Palli – Petralia, the former ministers G. Arsenis, G. Katsifaras and M. Apostolaki, Mr. K. Markatos, Mr. Nikos Kourkoulos, Mrs. Nonika Galinea, Mr. A. Fasianos, Mr. Spyros Evagelatos, Mr. G. Hatjinasios, Mr. Zachos Xatjifotiou and many others.

The guests had the opportunity to walk around the exterior areas of Cecil Mansion and to admire both the special architecture that was preserved and turned it into a luxurious and modern complex of offices, and the models of other projects of LAMDA Development such as: the exemplary project of mild housing development, the Press Olympic Village, the ultramodern, hypertopic shopping center of Pylaia in Salonica, Flisvos Marina and other modern complexes of offices developed by the company.

For further information please contact CIVITAS,
Pandora Lykouri 6835 403 & 0946 502944
Myrena Xatzivasiliou 6837 635 & 0946 502945

The speeches of His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Bartholomew, Mrs. Marianna Latsi & Mr. Lambros Anagnostopoulos are attached.