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Warehouse & industrial
A Polish logistics company has leased 1,500 sqm of warehouse and office space at MLP Business Park Poznań.
Office & mixed-use development
STM Cyber has leased more than 300 sqm in the Business Garden office complex in Warsaw.
Investment & finance
AFI Europe has signed an agreement to acquire Avenir Business Park in Nové Butovice (Prague 5) from UK investor Tristan Capital Partners for EUR 66.5 mln.
Green projects
A 5,165 sqm cross-docking terminal developed by Panattoni for DB Schenker in Świdnik on Lublin’s eastern outskirts has receiving BREEAM ‘Very Good’ certification.
Office & mixed-use development
The pandemic has changed the way offices operate forever and accelerated processes that would otherwise have taken years – according to the ‘Workplace Flexibility Vademecum’ report by Skanska’s commercial development business unit in the CEE region and Business Link.
Green projects
With a loan of up to EUR 25 mln from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Elemental Holding will establish the first facility in Poland and the EU for recycling both car batteries and other waste containing metals.
Residential
The total stock of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Prague stands at more than 28,400 beds.
Warehouse & industrial
Trading company High Hope SupplyChain has leased close to 2,500 sqm of warehouse and office space in Panattoni Park Poznań VII.
Investment & finance
Immofinanz has sold four office buildings in Warsaw with a total leasable area of around 45,000 sqm to Hungarian investment manager Indotek Group for EUR 72.5 mln.
Investment & finance
S Immo has rejected a request from rival Austrian real estate company Immofinanz (which intends to make a takeover bid for S Immo) not to postpone its AGM, originally scheduled for April 30th 2021.
Property and Facility Management
Savills has been appointed as the property and leasing manager of Szyperska Office Center in Poznań, which was recently acquired by Czech investment fund Investika.
Investment & finance
Mitiska REIM has secured a EUR 123 mln senior debt facility from Erste Group Bank for its entire retail park portfolio in Romania.
Corporate social responsibility
Robyg Group has turned to JLL to advise it on drawing up a comprehensive environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategy.
Office & mixed-use development
IT companies drEryk and Innergy have leased space from Cavatina Holding in the Tischnera Office building in Kraków and will take up a combined 1,200 sqm.
Residential
Echo Investment plans to equip all its apartments with voice-controlled smart home systems that use the Amazon Dot speaker.
Hotels
Over 2020, RevPAR slid by 64 pct in Vilnius, 68 pct in Riga, and 72 pct in Tallinn according to figures from the Christie & Co consultancy.
Investment & finance
Polish courier company InPost has announced it has entered into a binding share purchase agreement for the acquisition of 100 pct of the share capital and voting rights of French rival Mondial Relay.
Warehouse & industrial
Marmon Foodservice Technologies has leased a 12,000 sqm production building at Brno Airport Park, which is owned by Czech company Accolade.
Investment & finance
Immofinanz has requested that S Immo convenes an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting, at which the shareholders are to resolve an amendment to the latter company’s articles of association to cancel its maximum voting right as a condition to allow Immofinanz’s takeover offer for the company to go ahead.
Construction work on Warsaw’s southern bypass is nearing completion.
A consortium led by the Hungarian subsidiary of Strabag has been awarded a HUF 90.45 bln (EUR 245.58 mln) contract to complete the M6 motorway to the Croatian border.
Budimex is building a railway junction at the Port of Gdynia.
Polish Railways [PKP PLK] has signed a contract to modernise 21 bridges, flyovers, and crossings along the Centralna Magistral Kolejowa line.
Eight bids have been received in the open tender to build and design a 19 km stretch of the A2 motorway between the Siedlce Zachód junction and Malinowiec.
After a year of work a new junction is to open next to Zielone Arkady in Bydgoszcz.
A consortium including Strabag is to upgrade a single-track railway line between Püspökladány and Biharkeresztes on the Romanian border.
Four applications have been made by companies to take on the project of renovating the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in central Budapest.
Pier 1 at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc International Airport opened on August 12th.
Austrian construction firm Strabag and local consortium partner GP Group AD has been awarded a EUR 202 mln (BGN 395 mln) contract to modernise a stretch of the Elin Pelin–Kostenets railway line in western Bulgaria. Strabag holds a 51 pct share in the consortium.
The EU is to invest EUR 2.2 bln in key transport projects in all member states as part of its economic recovery plans.
Skanska together with railway electrification Elektrizace železnic Praha (Elzel) has been awarded a contract with Správa železnic (SZDC) for the upgrade of an 8.5 km stretch of railtrack in Brno.
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 terminal and construct a new runway parallel to it at Václav Havel – Ruzyně Airport in Prague.
POLAND Italian drilling and engineering company Saipem has been awarded a EUR 280 mln contract by the Polish gas transmission operator Gaz-System for the transportation and installation of a natural gas pipeline between Denmark and Poland in the Baltic Sea. A permit for the work to take place in Swedish waters has also now been issued, allowing the project to go ahead.
ROMANIA Austrian constructor Strabag has been commissioned to build a 640m cable-stayed bridge across the river Someș in the western Romanian city of Satu Mare.
CZECH REPUBLIC Skanska has been awarded a CZK 900 mln [app. EUR 33 mln] contract by The Road and Motorway Directorate of the Czech Republic [ŘSD ČR] to construct a new bypass for Karviná, close to the Polish border in the Moravian-Silesian region of the country.
LITHUANIA Finnish construction and development group YIT has been carrying out four road and street renovation contracts in Lithuania worth more than EUR 10 mln.
CZECH REPUBLIC Správa železnic, the Czech national railway infrastructure manager, is to redevelop the Brno-Královo Pole station.
POLAND The roads authority in Toruń has chosen contractors for teh reconstruction and extension of the Piłsudski bridge and the construction of a temporary bridge in Toruń.
POLAND Trains now stop at a number of new metro stations in Warsaw including Płocka, Młynów and Księcia Janusza; however, these trains carry no passengers and at present it remains unclear when the Wola section of the M2 metro line is to be opened.
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Twenty Polish projects have been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2022.
Vastint Poland has awarded Budimex with the general contracting services for the initial part of the second phase of its Waterfront development in Gdy ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Robyg Group has turned to JLL to advise it on drawing up a comprehensive environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategy.
Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.
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On behalf of everyone at Eurobuild, we would like to wish a very Happy Easter to all our friends, readers and colleagues on the Central and Eastern Eu ...
In our latest Eurobuild FM podcast, we find out from Efrat Fenigson of flexible space operator Mindspace how the flex office market has been coping du ...
The pandemic might have upended the plans of many in a number of sectors, but not of those in warehousing. The warehouse market is still one of the fa ...
A 5,165 sqm cross-docking terminal developed by Panattoni for DB Schenker in Świdnik on Lublin’s eastern outskirts has receiving BREEAM ‘Very Good’ ce ...
Over 2020, RevPAR slid by 64 pct in Vilnius, 68 pct in Riga, and 72 pct in Tallinn according to figures from the Christie & Co consultancy.
Avison Young has launched two new strategic affiliations in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria to expand the firm’s services to clients further across t ...
Construction work on Warsaw’s southern bypass is nearing completion.
The MádiLáncos Studio has been commissioned to design the interiors of Arena Corner.
AFI Europe has signed an agreement to acquire Avenir Business Park in Nové Butovice (Prague 5) from UK investor Tristan Capital Partners for EUR 66.5 ...
STM Cyber has leased more than 300 sqm in the Business Garden office complex in Warsaw.
Savills has been appointed as the property and leasing manager of Szyperska Office Center in Poznań, which was recently acquired by Czech investment f ...
A P+R car park for 880 vehicles is under construction in Černý Most (Prague 9).
The total stock of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Prague stands at more than 28,400 beds.
Carrefour is to roll out its Outlet Zone concept to three hypermarkets located in Warsaw and Łódź.
US company AI Clearing is to provide its fully automated construction progress tracking solution for Esoleo, which is building Poland’s largest solar ...
A Polish logistics company has leased 1,500 sqm of warehouse and office space at MLP Business Park Poznań.
