Plac Unii awarded catches BREEAM
Green projectsschedule 20 August 2012
POLSKA Galeria Miejska, the retail section of the Plac Unii mixed-use development in Warsaw, has received BREEAM certification at the ‘Very Good’ level.
Office & mixed-use development
The Polish branch of one of the leaders in the aviation industry will move to the Łódź office building Imagine, developed by Avestus Real Estate. The company has leased over 1,600 sqm of space on the fourth floor of Building A.
Warehouse & industrial
The MDC2 Park Gdańsk East warehouse and industrial complex is set to be constructed in Koszwały, near Gdańsk. The project's first phase will feature a single building with a total area of 84,000 sqm.
Warehouse & industrial
BSH Home Appliances Group is strengthening its operations in Poland. In Rudna Wielka near Rzeszów, Panattoni will construct a new, larger factory for the company.
Office & mixed-use development
The Irish Embassy in Poland will remain in its current location in the Liberty Corner building in the centre of Warsaw for the next ten years. The diplomatic post has been based in the office building at ul. Mysia 5 since 2004.
Office & mixed-use development
Arla Global Shared Services – Arla GSS will move its local headquarters to the Punkt office building under construction in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz. The company has leased nearly 10,000 sqm of space, to which it will move in early 2026.
Warehouse & industrial
A large distribution network operating in the Romanian market has extended its lease of 10,400 sqm of warehouse space at the MLP Bucharest West logistics park. According to the agreement, it will additionally receive modern office space of 330 sqm for use.
Investment & finance
Indotek Group has sold the Bokserska Office Center in Warsaw. The buyer is Enter Air, Polish charter airline, which intends to relocate its headquarters to the property.
Hotels
Mövenpick has made its debut in Poland with the opening of two hotels – Mövenpick Grand Hotel Wrocław and Mövenpick Resort & Spa Karpacz. The brand has plans for further expansion in Europe.
Investment & finance
Remake Asset Management, through its SCPI Remake Live fund, has entered the Polish market with two significant investments, acquiring four hotels across Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź, and Lublin, as well as a logistics facility in Wolborz.
Investment & finance
Mitiska REIM, specialist investor in European convenience real estate, has announced it has secured a EUR 50 mln co-investment alongside the MEREP 3 value-add fund from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Along with other investments, this brings the total funds raised so far by MEREP 3 to EUR 290 mln.
Office & mixed-use development
Jacobs Douwe Egberts has extended its lease in the Warsaw office building from the Syrena Real Estate portfolio. The company will continue leasing nearly 1,300 sqm of space within Diuna complex.
Investment & finance
Eiffage Immobilier Polska has sold its first Polish PRS development to Heimstaden. Located in Warsaw's Praga-Północ district, the Białostocka 5D development offers 185 units.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has started speculative construction of the next phase of the Wrocław Campus 2 logistics complex. By June 2025, ca. 30,000 sqm will be delivered – part of a hall that will eventually reach 130,000 sqm, with the entire project totaling 160,000 sqm.
Warehouse & industrial
Logicor has signed a lease extension agreement with Huhtamaki Foodservice. The company occupies 34,600 sqm of warehouse and 2,700 sqm of office space in the entire No. 1 building in Czeladź.
Retail & leisure
According to a survey by Cushman & Wakefield, which has been tracking new entries for 11 years, 47 brands entered the Czech market in 2024. This is the highest number of brands to enter the Czech market, compared to 40 brands in 2023.
Investment & finance
Panattoni has finalized the sale of one of its Silesian investments. Generali Fond Realit (fund of Generali Group) company purchased Panattoni Park Zabrze II.
Investment & finance
DL Invest Group has finalized the acquisition of a production and warehouse complex in Bielsko-Biała, with a total rental area exceeding 270,000 sqm.
Investment & finance
Contera has announced a strategic partnership with Blackstone, the world's largest asset management company, to acquire CT Real Estate's portfolio of ten logistics parks for approximately €470 mln.
Investment & finance
CA Immo has completed the sale of the Saski Point office building in central Warsaw to an undisclosed buyer.
Investment & finance
Investika Real Estate Fund and its JV partner Bud Holdings have acquired five Polish logistics parks with a combined area of 212,500 sqm from Polish warehouse developer 7R for more than EUR 150 mln.
Czech developer CTP has been granted a EUR 200 mln loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out of its large-scale solar panel installation programme across its European business park portfolio.
Real estate investor and fund manager Cromwell Property Group has secured a EUR 66 mln green loan for the 61,000 sqm Janki shopping centre on the southern outskirts of Warsaw.
Pad Res, a joint venture between Griffin Capital Partners and Kajima Europe, is to build two photovoltaic farms in Pomerania with a total capacity of 117 megawatts.
German asset manager KGAL Investment Management is to establish a joint venture to build four solar and wind parks with specialist Polish developer Lasuno for its KGAL ESPF 5 impact fund.
The newly constructed warehouse, which has expanded CTPark Prague West, has been certified as the most environmentally friendly industrial building in the Czech Republic according to ‘BREEAM New Construction’ standards, with a record score of 92.1 pct. The building is home to Rhenus Logistics, which uses it as a cross-dock for its pan-European network for collection services and warehousing.
Owned by the Capital Park Group, the Warsaw mixed use complex Norblin Factory has received the final BREEAM certificates for both its office and retail sections. A photovoltaic system has been installed in the complex, and the managers are continuing their efforts to steadily reduce the property’s carbon footprint.
Energy consumption reduced by almost 48 pct, almost 4 mln litres of water saved in a year and CO2 emissions reduced by more than 3,900 tonnes - these are the savings generated by the Warsaw P180 office building, developed by Skanska in Warsaw by the Wilanowska metro station. The investment has just received LEED Core & Shell certification at the Platinum level.
Docks Bruxsel in Brussels has received a CO2 neutrality certificate from CO2logic/South Pole. It is the first large shopping centre in Europe to receive this certification.
Panattoni has received an "Outstanding" rating under the BREEAM International New Construction system for Panattoni Park Szczecin III halls A and B. This is the first such high level of certification in the industrial real estate market in Poland for a newly built investment.
CA Immo has concluded 45 lease agreements with a total of nearly 29,000 sqm of office space in Warsaw in the past year, 20 pct of which in Q4 of 2022. The company has also introduced a green lease initiative in 2022, governing mutual commitment of landlord and tenant to optimize sustainable building operations. Since May 2022, 23 green lease agreements have already been concluded.
.Ktw II office building, developed by TDJ Estate, has been certified BREEAM at the Excellent level. The document is the final assessment of the investment's environmental impact. The building achieved a score of 80.6 pct.
Globalworth received 47 various ESG related certifications for its Romanian portfolio in 2022, among them LEED, BREEM, WELL Health & Safety and Access4you accreditations.
Panattoni is supporting the upcycling of the machinery used to generate green energy. In 15 of its locations environmentally friendly outdoor furniture made from former wind turbines can already be found, and in 2023 similar furniture is to appear in another 100 locations.
Futureal’s Etele Plaza in Budapest has received BREEAM 'Very Good' certification in the retail category.
Bilfinger Tebodin has completed work on a 27 MW wind farm in Kostomłoty in the South-West of Poland. The investment was carried out by Polenergia, Poland's largest private energy group.
Ghelamco has completed its first three photovoltaic farms as part of its programme to achieve energy neutrality, announced in May 2022. The installations, with a capacity of nearly 3 MW, were built in three locations in the Opole region.
C3, the Circular Construction & Technology Center project in Bremen is the Strabag’s first competence centre for sustainable circularity. It will be focused on resource reprocessing, it will be energy self-sufficient and climate neutral.
Czech developer CTP has obtained the first BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification – the highest possible level – of its Romanian portfolio for the Clubhaus multifunctional building, part of the CTPark Bucharest West industrial park.
The fifth floor of the Spark C building in Warsaw, which houses the head office of the Skanska’s commercial development business unit in the CEE region, has just been obtained a renewal of its Well Commercial Interior certificate. This is the first such recertification in Poland and the CEE region, and the second in Europe.
All 17 properties in the Polish portfolio of Romanian developer Globalworth have obtained Well Health-Safety Rating certification.
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 ...
Two buildings completed as part of the first phase of Good Point V, an investment by Real Management, have received the final BREEAM International New ...
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