With the advantage of relatively cheap office rental rates, the third phase of the Nangang Software Park (南港軟體工業園區) has attracted many large international and domestic companies, developers said yesterday.
Apart from Microsoft Corp, which has already moved into the building, it has been confirmed that Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC, 台灣高鐵) and International Business Machines Corp (IBM) will be leasing three floors each, Hoyt Tillman, director of international marketing division at Century Development Corp (世正開發), told reporters yesterday on the sidelines of an inauguration ceremony for the building.
Century Development is in charge of the planning, development and management of the building.
The building currently has an occupancy rate of 50 percent, and is expected to reach full occupancy by year’s end, Century Development chairman Theodore Huang (黃茂雄), said yesterday.
“The monthly rental rate of the new building should fall between NT$1,200 and NT$1,500 per ping, which is cheaper than A-class office spaces in Taipei by half,” Michael Wang (王維宏), supervisor at Sinyi Commercial (信義商仲), said by telephone yesterday.
Tillman said there is one foreign high-tech company that plans to lease a total of nine floors that is scheduled to move into the building in January next year, but declined to reveal the name.
The third phase of the Nangang Software Park is estimated to help bring in 60 companies with around 4,000 employees.
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