ESG
All buildings completed by Echo Investment in Kraków's Brain Park complex have obtained BREEAM New Construction certification at the Excellent level. The latest stage of the project has just achieved a very high score of 78.9 pct.
Material partner
Peninsula Property is an investor and development company that builds high-quality, thoughtfully designed apartment buildings, boutique residences and hotels to ensure the best possible experience for future residents and tenants. It stands out for its innovative designs and concepts in the Polish market.
Residential
Resi Capital, a company belonging to the Cavatina Group, is preparing its first residential project in Bielsko-Biała. The Reytan Apartments will be built on the site of the former Befama industrial plant.
Warehouse & industrial
Construction work on a modern logistics property in Norderstedt has officially begun with a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony. Just a few kilometres north of Hamburg’s city limits, Garbe is developing a new building with a total area of 12,700 sqm. Completion is planned for the middle of next year.
Investment & finance
Real Management has secured loan financing of PLN 120 mln, which will be used for growth in the development business. The financing was again provided by mBank.
Investment & finance
UBM Development has sold Galeria Szperk in Kosakowo near Gdynia to the Polish company Rewa, based in Krakow, for almost EUR 18 mln.
Hotels
The Sofitel Grand Sopot has changed hands. The Polish company Sinfam Investments became the new owner of the hotel. The seller was AccorInvest, which includes the Orbis group. Sofitel will remain the managing operator of the hotel.
Office & mixed-use development
Nivea Polska/Beiersdorf will open its first office in Warsaw, leasing nearly 400 sqm on the 37th floor of the HB Reavis-owned Varso Tower. The contract has been signed for five years and the office will begin operations in May 2025. The new headquarters will act as a satellite office and will also be a representative meeting space for the entire Eastern European region.
Warehouse & industrial
MLP Group has signed a lease agreement with Langowski Logistics, a Polish logistics operator specialising in international container transport. The company will occupy a total of more than 5,600 sqm of space in the MLP Pruszków II complex. The new tenant can already use a 5,400 sqm warehouse hall. Approx. 250 sqm of social and office space is still in the pipeline, to be moved into in August 2025.
Retail & leisure
An 800 sqm Biedronka grocery store is to open on the ground floor of the Moje Bielany residential complex, which is being developed by CeMat A/S at ul. Wólczyńska 121 in Warsaw’s Bielany district.
Office & mixed-use development
Infor, a company offering cloud-based business software solutions, has renewed its lease at Globalworth's Retro Office House in Wrocław.
Warehouse & industrial
Mountpark has secured Alza, an online retailer in Central and Eastern Europe, as the first customer at Mountpark Bratislava. Alza has leased a 65,000 sqm facility in Building A at the logistics park, construction of which commenced in October.
Warehouse & industrial
Garbe has announced the full occupancy of all its industrial parks in the CEE region. The recently vacated space of 10,000 sqm in Garbe Park Senec was immediately occupied by logistics company Würth International Trading.
Retail & leisure
LCP Properties, part of the international M Core group, has officially opened M Park Pionki, the 50th retail park under the M Park brand in Poland. It is also the thirteenth M Park in the Mazovia region.
Retail & leisure
A service and retail complex Panorama Park II is being built in Kościelna Wieś. At the end of November, the foundation stone ceremony for the building took place.
Residential
The 30-ha revitalised site formerly occupied by the Silesia Metallurgical Plant will become home to a modern mixed-use district Nowy Wełnowiec with predominantly residential functions. Nearly a third of the area will be dedicated to open green spaces. The Capital Park Group is responsible for the implementation and management of the project.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni will begin construction of a new park in the Silesian voivodship - Panattoni Park Sosnowiec V. The investment will ultimately comprise two buildings with a total space of over 52,000 sqm. The first tenant is Hebe, for which a BTS distribution centre will be prepared within the facility.
Warehouse & industrial
CTP has handed over a new 100,000 sqm logistics centre in Hungary to Tesco. Built as part of a greenfield investment spanning 60 ha near Szigetszentmiklós, the state-of-the-art facility aims to enhance Tesco’s efficiency in serving Hungarian customers and optimise transportation logistics. The centre will fully serve Tesco stores nationwide starting in March 2025.
Investment & finance
Echo Investment signed a conditional sale agreement for React, the office building in Łódź. Upon conclusion of the deal, the asset will be acquired by Summus Capital, an Estonian-based investment company.
Office & mixed-use development
Transporeon, an international logistics company, has extended its lease agreement at Porto Office A building in Kraków, where it occupies over 1,900 sqm.
An 800 sqm Biedronka grocery store is to open on the ground floor of the Moje Bielany residential complex, which is being developed by CeMat A/S at ul. Wólczyńska 121 in Warsaw’s Bielany district.
LCP Properties, part of the international M Core group, has officially opened M Park Pionki, the 50th retail park under the M Park brand in Poland. It is also the thirteenth M Park in the Mazovia region.
A service and retail complex Panorama Park II is being built in Kościelna Wieś. At the end of November, the foundation stone ceremony for the building took place.
According to Trends Radar. Real Estate: From Stabilisation To Optimism, the latest report from Cushman & Wakefield, in 2024, Poland came second in Europe in terms of new retail supply, surpassed only by France.
According to BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland latest report “At a Glance: Modern Retail Market in Poland, Q3 2024”, predictions of the imminent decline of shopping centres in Poland have proven premature. In Q3 2024, the Polish retail market expanded by another 116,000 sqm.
The results of the CBRE European Retail Occupier Survey 2024 suggest the retail sector and regional economy overall approach the end of a challenging period. The study includes responses from over 60 global retailers with a store network of over 130,000 locations, and shows that 71 pct of retailers planning to increase their number of physical stores intend to do so in markets where they are already present.
Mitiska REIM has announced the opening of a new retail park in the Romanian city of Pitesti, one of four new development projects planned to open by Mitiska REIM in the Romanian market over the next two years.
German department store chain Woolworth has signed a lease agreement for almost 1,000 sqm in the Galeria Słoneczna shopping centre in Radom.
Refield is starting the development of the first retail park in Środa Wielkopolska. Pasaż Średzki is expected to open in 2026.
Newgate Investment has acquired a completed retail park in Zgorzelec with over 5,400 sqm GLA. The seller was Smart Park Poland.
One United Properties is carrying out restoration works on the former Ford Hall in Bucharest, which will be modernized into a mixed-use space. In addition to offices and a food market concept, One Gallery will feature a museum area, as well as a multifunctional hall.
San Park Piaseczno, a retail park developed by Ed San III Sancak, has been officially opened. The complex offers a total of more than 40 shops and service outlets.
According to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox, retail projects totalling more than 87,000 sqm were delivered throughout H1 2024, corresponding to a sharp increase when compared with the 30,000 sqm new supply from the same period of 2023. This year’s evolution was mainly fuelled by Q2 completions.
San Park Piaseczno, the largest retail park currently under construction in the Mazovia voivodship, will open on 4 September. The retail park, offering a total of nearly 40 shops of brands from many sectors, was fully commercialised a few weeks before the opening.
The Big Gorzów retail park opened a month ahead of schedule. The park was built on an 8 ha site in the north-eastern part of Gorzów Wielkopolski. It will serve 160,000 buyers from the city and the region. On the day of the opening, around 10,000 visitors had visited by 2 pm.
According to Colliers "Luxury Retail Brands in CEE-6” report, key factors attracting luxury brands to Central and Eastern Europe include local wealth, the growing desire among customers for a Western standard of living, and the potential of cities to attract large numbers of tourists and visitors.
Mitiska REIM has announced on behalf of the Merep 3 fund a joint venture partnership with Park Lane Developments to develop retail parks in Bulgaria.
Twenty brands debuted on the Czech retail market between January and the end of June, the highest ever recorded in the first six months of a year. The biggest categories were Health and Beauty and F&B. All but one of the new brands opened in Prague, the other setting up shop in an outlet centre in the Moravian town of Hatě.
Cushman & Wakefield has summarised the situation on the Polish retail market in Q2 2024. There were eight new retail completions with the development pipeline comprising app. 400,000 sqm. This indicates healthy supply levels amid unwavering occupier demand and strong retail sales, shopping centre footfall and turnover figures.
One United Properties announced the lease of a retail space with a GLA of 3,600 sqm on the ground floor of One Gallery building, including terraces and storage spaces. The contract has been signed with Tomcat Hospitality.
In Winogrady district of Poznań, the construction of the Aura residential building, designed by Robert Konieczny's office KWK Promes, has begun. The f ...
Strabag Romania has been selected by the developer and investor PPF Real Estate as the general contractor for the construction of its new office prope ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
Shopee is ending its operations in Poland. The Asian e-commerce platform, which debuted in Poland in 2021, intends to focus on operations in other reg ...
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