Focus Real Estate invests in SAWA

We are proud to reveal our investor: Focus Real Estate. SAWA will soon house 50 mid-rent apartments, 20 free sector and 39 owner-occupied homes. All new residents will soon live in a sustainable wooden building full of greenery and space for encounters.

Freek Boeijen of Focus Real Estate stresses he is proud to collaborate on SAWA:

Nice Developers and ERA Contour are really doing something special here on Rotterdam's Lloydpier. With the development SAWA, they are carrying out their sustainability mission with passion. SAWA is more than a building made of wood. The building contributes to strengthening biodiversity in Rotterdam. And it will be a place where people will truly live and share together. We are delighted to further develop the vision of how people will soon live here together. The energy of the SAWA team to build something truly special is contagious.

Residential needs of humans and animals

SAWA is an innovative development in more ways than one. The building will be made of CLT (cross laminated timber). Instead of concrete, the ambition is to use as much wood as possible - including in the floors. SAWA will have generous green terraces. A team of biologists and ecologists has developed a green plan; the living requirements of animals and plants have been included. Each layer and side has its own characteristics with all kinds of places where animals and plants like to stay. Greenery and habitats for birds, butterflies and bees have been integrated into balconies, terraces and the deck. Focus Real Estate - on behalf of the future tenants - thinks along with the team about the housing concept. Very regularly, the team organizes online co-creation meetings, with the first six pioneers who joined the project last summer as well as with people who would like to live in SAWA.