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Amazon’s mobile bots expand to Poland

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POLAND Amazon has introduced its Kiva mobile robots to its Polish warehouses. Amazon Wrocław distribution centre is the company’s first European location to get the high speed wheeled autonomous robots.

They have been deployed only in some of the online giant’s most advanced US facilities so far. Manufactured by Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), a company acquired by Amazon in 2012, the battery-powered Kiva bots are designed to quickly localize and pick-up portable storage units (cartons, pallets, movable shelves etc.) that contain products needed for fulfilling orders and bring them to an employee who sorts and ships them. The solution is believed to save Amazon as much as 50 pct of storage space.

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Warehouse & industrial

POLAND InPost in MDC2 Kraków South

schedule 03 October 2024
Opr./edited by NN

Polish parcel dispatch company InPost has leased 11,000 sqm at MDC2 Park Kraków South. The BTS project is to be built on a site prepared exclusively for the tenant.

Investment & finance

Poland The Future comes to Galardia

schedule 03 October 2024
Opr./edited by JC

Starachowice’s Galardia shopping center, developed from a greenfield by Stage Capital and Sierra Balmain, has a new owner – Future Estate. Opened in October 2014, the facility offers 18,000 sqm GLA.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Maximum occupancy at Forest

schedule 03 October 2024
Opr./edited by JC

HB Reavis has signed seven-year lease agreements with Transition Technologies and other companies, which will occupy nearly 1,000 sqm of office space in the Forest campus in Warsaw. The building is now fully let.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Saski Crescent sounds great

schedule 03 October 2024
Opr./edited by JC

GN Poland has leased more than 2,000 sqm of office space in the Saski Crescent building in Warsaw. The company is part of the GN Group, a Danish provider of intelligent audio, video, gaming solutions, and hearing systems.

Residential

SLOVAKIA Metropolis life in Bratislava

schedule 02 October 2024
Opr./edited by NN

Czech property group Mint is finalising the construction of its premium Metropolis residential project in Bratislava, which will comprise 298 luxury apartments.

Interior design

POLAND Grainy effect for Viterra

schedule 02 October 2024
Opr./edited by NN

Viterra has moved into its ​​new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime, part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk. The Design Anatomy studio is responsible for the design of the space.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland GLP is expanding in Silesia

schedule 02 October 2024
Opr./edited by JC

GLP has commenced construction of its second logistics centre in Gliwice. The facility will ultimately offer 57,000 sqm of warehouse and production space, located adjacent to the Katowice Special Economic Zone.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Charities move into Diuna

schedule 02 October 2024
Opr./edited by JC

Syrena Real Estate, managing Diuna office complex in Warsaw’s Służewiec district, has made spaces available free of charge for statutory activities of Unicef Poland and the Wiosna Association. Both organisations have launched their activities and are running initiatives.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland E-commerce stays with Hillwood

schedule 02 October 2024
Opr./edited by ANZ

Hillwood is extending its cooperation with an American e-commerce giant in Łódź Górna. The tenant has extended its lease agreement for more than 36,000 sqm of warehouse space and 2,000 sqm for offices at Hillwood's Łódź Górna logistics centre. 

Investment & finance

Germany Garbe and Logicenters acquire former airbase

schedule 01 October 2024
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Garbe and its joint venture partner Logicenters, Nrep's development and management platform for logistics properties, have acquired a 20,000 sqm plot of land. A logistics centre with a total area of around 11,600 sqm is to be built on this site. Construction is scheduled to begin in Q2 2025, with an investment volume of around EUR 17 mln.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Tenants feel good at Metropolitan

schedule 01 October 2024
Opr./edited by ANZ

New leases and extensions have been signed for a total of 18,000 sqm in the Metropolitan Warsaw building. Companies such as HP and LCP Group have decided to continue their operations in the building.

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND PIB takes 1.2k in West 4 Business

schedule 01 October 2024
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Insurance brokerage PIB Group is to occupy 1,200 sqm of office space in the West 4 Business Hub in Wrocław.

Residential

Poland White Stone Development and Nrep join forces

schedule 01 October 2024
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White Stone Development, a Polish developer active in the residential and commercial market, has announced the signing of key agreements for a new project. A PRS development, commissioned by Nrep, which is investing through the NSF V fund, will be built in Warsaw's Bielany district.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Santander takes the top of the tower

schedule 30 September 2024
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Santander Bank Polska is to move into 25,500 sqm of The Bridge skyscraper, which is under construction in Warsaw's Wola business district, in the largest leasing transaction on the Polish office market since 2022.

Eurobuild CEE

Poland The October issue of Eurobuild!

schedule 30 September 2024
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Here it is at last! The latest issue of Eurobuild is out fresh from the printers, and in it, as always, there's plenty of market news, expert opinions and information about personnel changes.

Investment & finance

POLAND Arete enters Poland

schedule 30 September 2024
Opr./edited by NN

Czech asset manager Arete Investment Group has entered the Polish market with the acquisition from Kajima Poland and Panattoni of a 65,000 sqm warehousing park in Zgorzelec in Lower Silesia.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland DB Schenker to move into Rawicz

schedule 30 September 2024
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DB Schenker has leased more than 17,000 sqm at the Hillwood Rawicz warehouse centre. The logistics operator will service a customer producing optical products and sports accessories in its new space.

Investment & finance

Poland Nepi Rockcastle buys Magnolia Park 

schedule 30 September 2024
Opr./edited by ANZ

Nepi Rockcastle has acquired the 100,000 sqm Magnolia Park shopping centre in Wrocław from Union Investment in an off-market transaction. The sale price amounts to EUR 373 mln. Union Investment acquired Magnolia Park in 2017 for the portfolio of the UniImmo: Europa open-ended real estate fund.

Infrastructure

POLAND Ghelamco gets go-ahead for Gdańska

schedule 27 September 2024
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Ghelamco has renewed its partnership with Polish railway operator PKP SA and its real estate division Xcity Investment related to the redevelopment of the Warszawa Gdańska train station in Warsaw.

Retail & leisure

POLAND Wonder of Woolies in Słoneczna

schedule 27 September 2024
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German department store chain Woolworth has signed a lease agreement for almost 1,000 sqm in the Galeria Słoneczna shopping centre in Radom.

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schedule 12 September 2024

Velis has a new name

Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu, adopting the title of its property management product. The rebranding aims to both refresh the company's image and unify its operations. Velis Real Estate Tech will remain the company's administrative name.

schedule 26 January 2024

Symbiotic fit for HB Reavis and HqO

The Symbiosy smart building platform developed in-house by Slovakian developer HB Reavis has been acquired by Massachusetts-based real estate experience platform HqO.

schedule 07 December 2023

Saski Crescent has WiredScore Platinum

The renovated Saski Crescent office building has proven to be fully prepared for challenges in terms of technological requirements. The building's full digital connectivity has been confirmed by the highest level of the WiredScore rating – Platinum.

schedule 31 August 2022

Bright Spaces and digital future for CA Immo Hungary

Bright Spaces has announced a partnership with CA Immo Hungary to digitally showcase five of the latter’s buildings.

schedule 26 August 2022

Sharry and Otis bring touchless access to Smíchoff

Sharry and Otis have partnered to provide a contact-free elevator access system that is operated via a mobile app for the Smíchoff office building in Prague.

schedule 17 June 2022

Hyperscale data centre launched in Warsaw

Vantage Data Centers has announced the opening of two hyperscale data campuses – in Warsaw and Berlin.

schedule 12 May 2022

Hi Tech bicycle storage comes to Norblin Factory

A bicycle storage stacking machine has been installed in the Norblin Factory centre in Warsaw, which can hold up to 96 bikes.

schedule 27 October 2021

Workthere comes to Poland

Savills has launched a Polish version of its Workthere online platform to help potential tenants find flexible workspace and optimise how they use their space.

schedule 17 August 2021

Eobuwie rolls out foot scanning app abroad

Online shoe store Eobuwie.pl has just rolled out its esize.me app in service in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece and Hungary.

schedule 14 June 2021

Atrium work ten times quicker

Atrium Poland Real Estate Management is to work with Pergamin, a Polish startup that allows contracts to be signed with digital signatures. In this way, the leasing of 14 of Atrium’s centres will be up to ten times quicker.

schedule 31 May 2021

Cushman & Wakefield start droning on

Cushman & Wakefield has teamed up with FairFleet to offer drone surveillance services throughout the EMEA as well as across the Asia Pacific region and Canada.

schedule 01 April 2021

Esoleo embraces AI for solar farm

US company AI Clearing is to provide its fully automated construction progress tracking solution for Esoleo, which is building Poland’s largest solar farm on the site of a former brown coal mine in Brudzew in central Poland.

schedule 26 March 2021

Segro becomes part of Proptech Foundation

Segro has joined the Proptech Foundation.

schedule 29 December 2020

AI Clearing raises USD 2 mln in seed funding

AI Clearing, Inc. has raised USD 2 mln in seed funding to accelerate the development – at its R&D centre in Warsaw – of its artificial intelligence system for monitoring the progress of construction projects.

schedule 08 December 2020

Cushman teams up with Future2

Cushman & Wakefield, a leading global real estate services firm, has entered into a partnership with leading proptech advisor Future2.

schedule 03 December 2020

Bicycles come to Norblin

The Norblin Factory complex in Warsaw being developed by Capital Park Group through the renovation and conversion of a former metal plating plant is to have an automated bicycle storage centre created by MA-Sistemas, a Spanish company active in Switzerland, Singapore and Israel.

schedule 01 December 2020

New Work goes digital

Flex office operator has launched an app that allows its clients to make bookings, order additional services and also acts as a communication platform.

schedule 01 December 2020

Echo takes on Blue Bolt

Echo Investment is to introduce the Blue Bolt app, created by Polish software developer NTT, to all its new residential projects.

schedule 19 August 2020

Warsaw an emerging data centre hotspot - C&W

Cushman & Wakefield has identified Berlin, Reykjavik, Oslo, Warsaw, Zurich, Milan, Vienna, Madrid and Prague as emerging European hotspots for data centre development.

schedule 11 August 2020

Robot blasts germs with UV

The first Polish robot to use UV-C light for disinfection has been put to use in a hospital in Wrocław.

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