Office & mixed-use development
Infrastructure specialists AECOM Polska has leased more than 1,000 sqm in the Ambassador office building in Warsaw’s Służewiec district.
Investment & finance
NEPI Rockcastle and AFI Europe have entered into a new memorandum of understanding as a result of arbitration proceedings following AFI’s suspension of its takeover of NEPI Rockcastles’s Romanian office portfolio.
Office & mixed-use development
The Wave office building, which has just been completed by Skanska in Gdańsk’s Oliwa district, has been approved for use.
Warehouse & industrial
The CEE-6’s share of EU manufacturing output has more than doubled since 2004, when the first group of these countries joined the European Union, according to research by Colliers International.
Office & mixed-use development
Around 50 pct of the 704,000 sqm of office space currently under construction in Warsaw has been pre-leased, according to real estate advisory Cresa.
Office & mixed-use development
The total modern office stock in the 14 CEE capital cities at the end of Q1 2020 amounted to almost 26.4 mln sqm, according to Colliers International’s ExCEEding Borders Office Snapshot survey of the region’s main office markets.
Office & mixed-use development
Globalworth has signed contracts for more than 25,000 sqm of office space in Bucharest in the last three months, despite the pandemic and social distancing measures.
Retail & leisure
The Polish Council of Shopping Centres (PRCH) has published its latest average weekly footfall figures for centres across Poland.
Retail & leisure
Polish discount store chain Pepco is entering the Serbian market, where it plans to open in 30 locations in its first year of operations.
Construction
The European construction industry expected to recover in second half of 2020, according to data and analytics specialists GlobalData.
Property and Facility Management
Rondo Business Park in Kraków is to be managed by Globalworth’s in-house team from July.
Events
Summer at Eurobuild has never been so hot! We have a new editor, a new website, and soon we’ll be moving to our new headquarters. And, with the announcement of their rescheduled dates, a lot of heat and excitement are being generated for our sports tournaments!
Investment & finance
Average prime industrial and prime shopping centre yields across mainland Europe have converged for the first time in recorded history, as demand for logistics soars due to the e-commerce boom, according to research by Savills.
Events
Great news for those who were disappointed by the cancellation of Eurobuild’s annual golf tournament – it’s now back on! And it will be taking place very soon, on September 11th in Rajszew just outside Warsaw.
Warehouse & industrial
The Czech Republic is the most attractive European manufacturing hub and the fourth most attractive globally, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s annual Global Manufacturing Risk Index.
Office & mixed-use development
The recently renovated building B of BB Centrum in Prague 4 has been approved for use.
Events
Great news for tennis fans. Eurobuild’s 15th Annual Tennis Tournament, which unfortunately had to be postponed because of the pandemic, will now take place on September 11th at the Warszawianka Tennis Club.
Investment & finance
AFI Europe’s EUR 300 mln deal to buy NEPI Rockcastle’s Romanian office portfolio has fallen through with the seller insisting that Covid-19 restrictions have prevented the purchase – a claim denied by NEPI Rockcastle, which is now demanding EUR 15 mln compensation from the Israeli-owned company.
Warehouse & industrial
Cardboard packaging company Dot2Dot is to move into the 7R Park Gdańsk II complex, where it will have a production line, warehousing and its head office.
Green projects
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a grant for the Verde business centre complex in Riga, developed by SBA Group company Capitalica Asset Management.
POLAND Mirbud’s contract has been finalised for the construction of a Bi1 grocery hypermarket and petrol station next to the Karuzela shopping centre in Ełk in northeastern Poland.
POLAND Erbud has been awarded a PLN 37.2 mln net contract with Kalisz-based Colian Developer for the construction of a residential project at ul. Garbary 5 in Bydgoszcz.
WORLD Marcin Kitala of the Warsaw-based Kuryłowicz & Associates architectural studio has won the Kiribati Floating Houses competition organised by Young Architects Competitions.
BELARUS Kraków-based Horizone Studio is preparing the design of the headquarter building of Polish-Belarusian IT company Epol Soft in Brest.
POLAND Polish State Railways (PKP) has published pictures of the future Częstochowa Główna railway station.
POLAND The competition to find a concept design for the Częstochowa Główna station has been won by a project by Top Projekt Marek Wawrzyniak (Rybnik), NStudio (Paris) and Studio Antonini (Paris).
POLAND The European commission has awarded Warsaw the main prize of EUR 150,000 in the Access City Award 2020 competition for improving access for the disabled.
POLAND Six architectural studios have been shortlisted out of 93 in a competition to design a residential estate on ul. Ratuszowa in Warsaw as part of the government’s Apartment Plus social housing programme.
POLAND Architectural studio WXCA has prepared the design documentation for the redevelopment of the Witold Gombrowicz Theatre in Gdynia.
POLAND/BELARUS Warsaw-based architectural studio WXCA has won three awards at the Minsk International Biennale of Young Architects – Leonardo 2019.
RUSSIA Construction of the National Space Centre has started in Moscow.
POLAND Chapman Taylor has unveiled its proposed design for the new Central Communication Port (CPK) between Warsaw and Łódź in Poland.
CZECH REPUBLIC Trigema is preparing for the construction of the tallest building in the Czech Republic – the 135m Top Tower in Prague’s Nové Butovice district.
POLAND WXCA has won the architectural competition to design an office building that will be developed in the Port Popowice complex in Wrocław that is to be developed by Vantage Development.
RUSSIA Chapman Taylor has produced two concept designs for a state-of-the-art media centre in St Petersburg.
POLAND The Association of Polish Architects [SARP] has announced an architectural competition to find a design concept for teaching facilities for the University of Warsaw.
POLAND An architectural competition has been launched for the redevelopment of the Park Botewa area of Warsaw's Białołęka district.
POLAND Warsaw studio WXCA has come first in the competition to design the concept of the new Museum of the Wielkopolska Uprising, dedicated to the events surrounding the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918/19.
POLAND Warszawa Centralna [Warsaw Central] station has been listed as a registered monument and thus is now covered by a protection order. The decision should preserve the structure of the modernist station and its spatial layout in its existing form.
WORLD The World Architecture Festival (WAF), one of the most important architectural events globally, is to take place this year on December 4th–6th in Amsterdam – and this time a number of Polish projects have been shortlisted for awards.
Hungarian-based serviced office operator New Work has gone from strength-to-strength in the CEE region since its foundation eight years ago in the aftermath of the credit crunch. N ...
EditorialGuess who’s on the front cover? If you don’t know him, and probably you don’t, he’s the building manager of a certain residential project in Warsaw. You could see him as symbolisin ...
Warehouse & industrialPOLAND This spring saw Panattoni both complete and launch work on several new buildings.
POLAND Mirbud’s contract has been finalised for the construction of a Bi1 grocery hypermarket and petrol station next to the Karuzela shopping c ...
The European construction industry expected to recover in second half of 2020, according to data and analytics specialists GlobalData.
Almost three quarters of employers plan to reintroduce their employees to their workplaces in phases rather than all at once, according to CBRE in its ...
POLAND Wildberries, the Russian online retailer that debuted on the Polish market in January, has revealed some of its initial Polish sales figures.
The aim of the Eurobuild Awards is to promote the key players of the real estate sector by recognising their achievements. Our long-term goal is also ...
It is our immense pleasure to present to you the new, improved Eurobuild website. And this won't be the last thing we have to say on this subject!
Great news for tennis fans. Eurobuild’s 15th Annual Tennis Tournament, which unfortunately had to be postponed because of the pandemic, will now take ...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a grant for the Verde business centre complex in Riga, developed by SBA Group company Capitalica Asset ...
Accor has signed a management agreement with Alexandra Residence Design to open 144-room Ibis hotel near the future Terminal 2 of Bucharest’s main Hen ...
POLAND Reina Partners is the latest advisory to emerge on the Polish commercial real estate market.
CZECH REPUBLIC A consortium comprising Eurovia and Hochtief has been awarded a CZK 835 mln (app. EUR 30.826 mln) contract to expand the second termina ...
EUROPE Gala Collezione has a range of reclining armchairs perfect for reading, watching movies and talking on the phone.
NEPI Rockcastle and AFI Europe have entered into a new memorandum of understanding as a result of arbitration proceedings following AFI’s suspension o ...
Globalworth has signed contracts for more than 25,000 sqm of office space in Bucharest in the last three months, despite the pandemic and social dista ...
POLAND Local Heroes has opened its first fashion store of 81 sqm at ul. Mokotowska 49 in the Mokotowska Square building in Warsaw.
Rondo Business Park in Kraków is to be managed by Globalworth’s in-house team from July.
POLAND Skanska has completed the new home of the National Archives in Kraków, which according to the company is the largest complex of its type in Pol ...
Echo Investment has completed the renovation of the historic palace within its Ogrody Graua residential development in Wrocław, which now contains eig ...
The Polish Council of Shopping Centres (PRCH) has published its latest average weekly footfall figures for centres across Poland.
As many as 88 pct of EMEA occupiers intend to invest more in technology designed specifically to aid home working, according to CBRE’s 2020 EMEA Occup ...
The CEE-6’s share of EU manufacturing output has more than doubled since 2004, when the first group of these countries joined the European Union, acco ...
