Office & mixed-use development
Swiss kitchen fitting and design conglomerate Franke Group is to move its European shared services centre to the Myhive Nimbus office building in Warsaw, where it has leased 1,500 sqm.
Material partner
Atrium European Real Estate has published its 6th ESG report summarising the company's achievements in 2021. The report details the key initiatives involved in the implementation of the its ESG strategy. The company has set new and even more ambitious medium-term targets for 2030, which include a 40 pct reduction in the carbon footprint of its shopping centres by 2030, compared to 2019 levels. By 2050, Atrium wants to have become a carbon-neutral organisation.
Office & mixed-use development
Commercial real estate advisory Newmark Polska has relocated its Warsaw headquarters to Centrum Marszałkowska in the centre of the city.
Investment & finance
Hili Properties has acquired, for around EUR 50 mln, a 75 pct stake in Băneasa Real Estate SRL, the special purpose vehicle that owns the Miro office building in Bucharest.
Events
JLL’s 11th Real Estate Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament brought together 54 teams and around 2,500 guests, while more than PLN 750,000 was raised in the charity auction for the Polish Humanitarian Action and Women's Rights Centre Foundation.
Office & mixed-use development
Warsaw’s total office stock reached app. 6.27 mln sqm at the end of H1 2022, with occupier activity accelerating while vacancy continued its downward trend – according to Cushman & Wakefield.
Investment & finance
Romanian developer One United Properties has raised EUR 51.5 mln in what the company claims is the largest ever capital increase from a share issue of a company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB).
Investment & finance
Austrian real estate investor CA Immo has officially announced that it is selling its office portfolio in Romania.
Office & mixed-use development
The leasing activity in the Kraków office market reached 109,000 sqm In H2 2022 – more than any other Polish regional city, equivalent to 70 pct of 2021’s total and representing a 44 pct y-o-y increase, according to Savills.
Investment & finance
Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has provided a EUR 120 mln refinancing loan to EQT Exeter for its Polish logistics portfolio.
Investment & finance
In H1 2022, the total CEE commercial real estate investment volume reached EUR 5.5 bln – an increase of 32.8 pct y-o-y, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
Warehouse & industrial
French courier firm DPD has leased 3,500 sqm of warehouse space in VGP Park Arad in Transylvania.
Warehouse & industrial
Cinno Poland has leased 5,260 sqm in BIK Wroclaw II – the last of the remaining space in the park, which is now close to completion.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has completed the 43,000 sqm expansion of a plant in the Łódź region for a European hygiene products manufacturer, bringing the total area up to 70,000 sqm.
Office & mixed-use development
Euro-net, the owner of the RTV Euro AGD electronic goods store network, is to move its headquarters into ninth building of The Park Warsaw in mid-2023, occupying 80 pct of its total area.
Investment & finance
Macquarie Asset Management has acquired 7R City Flex Warsaw Airport I for around EUR 29 mln. The warehousing and logistics complex includes three buildings comprising 15,900 sqm and is fully leased.
Eurobuild Awards
On August 1st this year, the nominations for the Eurobuild Awards 2022 were announced. Due to the recent pandemic, this year’s competition recognises achievements over a longer period than the usual twelve months. This time, companies, projects and individuals are to be judged for their achievements over the last 20 months.
Warehouse & industrial
Prague-based P3 Logistic Parks has purchased a plot of more than 22 ha in Dębieńsko in Silesia, about 35 km southwest of Katowice, for the development of almost 110,000 sqm of warehousing.
Investment & finance
REICO ČS Long Lease, managed by Czech real estate investment group REICO IS ČS, has acquired the APS consumer battery manufacturing centre in Gniezno in a sale-leaseback deal for app. CZK 511 mln (PLN 97.4 mln or EUR 20.4 mln).
Property and Facility Management
Savills has been appointed as property manager for Widok Towers in Warsaw city centre.
The Iulius group and Netherlands-based Atterbury Europe are to invest EUR 0.5 bln in a large-scale, mixed-use urban redevelopment project on the 14 ha site of the Carbochim abrasive products plant on the banks of the Someșul Mic river in Cluj-Napoca.
The Chybik + Kristof architectural studio has revealed its designs for Ostrava Tower in Ostrava city centre, which will be the tallest building in the Czech Republic.
Globalworth Foundation and the Igloo – Habitat and Architecture Association have extended the deadline extension for the ‘2031 NOW_our cities in 10 years’ student competition to February 1st 2022.
Penta Real Estate is to work together with developer PSN on the project that is to replace the former Transgas building in Prague’s Vinohrady district.
Slovakian cyber-security specialist ESET has unveiled its plans for ESET Campus – a 55,000 sqm innovation and technology hub in its home city of Bratislava.
Penta Real Estate, Kaprain Group and Sekyra Group have purchased a 2 ha plot from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (VŠCHT) at the western end of Vítězné náměstí square in Prague 6.
Polish real estate developer Cavatina Holding has unveiled its concept for the Cavatina Concert Hall on Bainbridge Island in Washington state, on the US western seaboard.
Dutch studios Benthem Crouwel Architekten and West 8 have won the competition to design a new central railway station for Brno, in what was the largest architectural competition in the history of the Czech Republic.
Echo Investment has opened Anna Gardens, the first open-access space in Fuzja.
RS Architektura Krajobrazu has been announced the winner in the architectural competition to remodel ul. Chmielna in Warsaw.
Twenty Polish projects have been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2022.
A new street has been created in Warsaw within Echo Investment's Browary Warszawskie project in Warsaw.
The BE DDJM Architekci studio has won the competition to find a new design for the Kraków Music Centre.
The White Square Office Center, a complex designed by Polish architectural studio APA Wojciechowski, has been voted one of three of the most important architectural developments in Moscow over the last 30 years for the ARCH Moscow architecture and design exhibition.
Finnish studio ALA Architects has won the competition to design an extension to the Estonian Business School in Tallinn’s central Maakri district.
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.
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The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
In response to the gravity of Russia’s aggression, Colliers has discontinued its business in Russia and Belarus, effective immediately, after more tha ...
Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.
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A bee farm has been created on the 2 ha grounds of VGP Park Győr, while bird feeders are also soon to be added to the warehousing park.
IHG is to reintroduce its InterContinental Hotels & Resorts brand to Romania after a year’s break with the opening of the InterContinental Athénée Pal ...
Łukasz Jachna, the current member of the board and the chief capital markets officer of Polish warehouse developer 7R, has decided to leave the compan ...
A tender has been announced to reconstruct pl. Trzech Krzyży in Warsaw.
Globalworth has completed the refitting of more than 11,000 sqm of workspace for Uniqa in the Warsaw Trade Tower.
Hili Properties has acquired, for around EUR 50 mln, a 75 pct stake in Băneasa Real Estate SRL, the special purpose vehicle that owns the Miro office ...
A parcel of plots amounting to more than 50 ha in Wiskitki close to Żyrardów (about 50 km west of central Warsaw) has been acquired by an undisclosed ...
Atrium European Real Estate has published its 6th ESG report summarising the company's achievements in 2021. The report details the key initiatives in ...
Swiss kitchen fitting and design conglomerate Franke Group is to move its European shared services centre to the Myhive Nimbus office building in Wars ...
Savills has been appointed as property manager for Widok Towers in Warsaw city centre.
The topping out ceremony has taken place for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, on pl. Defilad in the city centre. Warbud is the general contractor o ...
Trei Real Estate Poland has started work on its first PRS investment in Poland. The estate is situated on ul. Piątkowska in Poznań’s Winiary district. ...
German developer Trei Real Estate has opened its thirtieth Vendo Park retail park in Poland – in Otwock, on Warsaw’s south-eastern outskirts.
Vantage Data Centers has announced the opening of two hyperscale data campuses – in Warsaw and Berlin.
French courier firm DPD has leased 3,500 sqm of warehouse space in VGP Park Arad in Transylvania.
