We Build High Quality Space

and Bringing Innovation to Enterprise

Mr Hesselink’s passion in life is to create better communities by making a positive contribution to the

quality of the built-up environment and developing better spaces for businesses and people. In his

current role, he is responsible for driving overall business growth and market share. He is primarily

concerned with ensuring the integrated commercial success of CTP Invest with marketing, sales,

product development and customer service..

You have operated in the development of commercial

real estate in the Czech Republic for over eighteen years.

What are the benefits if these investments are situated in

the Moravian-Silesian Region?

I am proud that we were one of the first commercial

real estate developers/investors who believed in the

Moravian-Silesian Region. We started to invest in

developing modern warehouse and office space early

enough so that we were ready to meet the demand

from companies for space when it arrived in larger

numbers. For example, I remember when GE Money

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Bank (now Moneta Money Bank) was looking for new,

modern offices in Ostrava back in 2005 because they

realized that many of their employees in their Prague

office were originally from Moravia-Silesia and would

very much welcome the opportunity to go back to their

roots if they had an equal job opportunity. Therefore,

GE Money Bank decided to open an office in Ostrava.

They then very quickly concluded after starting their

search for new space that there wasn’t a single modern

office building in the city, let alone available. We were

the only ones who were able to develop a new modern