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Retail & leisure

Centrum Chińskie in Galeria Jastrzębie

POLAND Centrum Chińskie is to open in Galeria Jastrzębie in Jastrzębie-Zdrój.

Alex Kloszewski starts up new company

POLAND A new company – Hotel Professionals Management Group – is making a debut in the hotel sector.

Interior design

Server to decorate interiors

POLAND/FRANCE Does your server not fit in with your interiors?

Poznań’s Bałtyk signs new tenant

POLAND Telecommunications services provider Oxylion has leased 900 sqm of office space in the Bałtyk office building that is currently being constructed at ul. Roosvelta 22 in Poznań. The project is planned to be delivered in Q2 2017.

Hotels

New sound in Karkonosze mountains

POLAND Horcus Investment Group has started the construction of a condo-hotel in Karpacz.

Sweco acquires Grontmij

EUROPE Swedish engineering company Sweco is taking over all issued and outstanding ordinary shares of its Netherlands-based competitor Grontmij in an attempt to get a better access to the Western European markets and broaden its expertise.

Green projects

Avia becomes green and golden

POLAND Avia office building, a joint project of the Kraków-based developer GD&K Group and CA Immo, has obtained LEED Gold certificate.

Construction

Work on Galeria Północna to start in July

POLAND Construction work on the Galeria Północna shopping centre in Warsaw’s Białołęka district is set to start at the beginning of July at the latest, according to Piotr Kroenke, the general director of Globe Trade Centre Polska, which is the property’s investor and developer.

White Stone Development takes over Fort Mokotów

POLAND White Stone Development has purchased the buildings that make up the historic Fort Mokotów fortification at ul. Racławicka 99 in Warsaw.

Technology

Samsung aims to seduce retailers with gesture-reading displays

WORLD Samsung Display, a manufacturer of OLED and LCD displays, has introduced mirror and transparent OLED display panels that recognize facial expressions and hand gestures.

Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank to float shares on FWB

EUROPE Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank is planning a listing on the prime standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB) in July.

Warehouse & industrial

Immofinanz makes money on bread

POLAND Polish bread and bakery manufacturer Nowakowski Piekarnie has leased 17,000 sqm in the Silesia Logistic Park which is owned by Immofinanz Group.

Remodeled Westgate Park Rudna sold

THE CZECH REPUBLIC London-based fund manager Europa Capital has sold its 90,000 sqm Westgate Park Rudna logistics project near Prague to Prologis.

Hotels

Marriott launches third Polish location

POLAND Marriott has opened its newest Polish property, a Courtyard by Marriott-branded hotel in Gdynia. The new property will form part of the 90,000 sqm Gdynia Waterfront complex that is currently being developed by Vastint (formerly SwedeCentre), a part of Inter IKEA Group, at the Gdynia wharfs.

Office & mixed-use development

Debt collectors to enter Gdynia’s Tensor

POLAND Polish debt collection company Best has signed an app. 2,000 sqm five-year lease agreement for office space in the first of the three Tensor office buildings that are currently being developed by Euro Styl in Gdynia’s Redłowo district.

Eurobuild Awards

Eurobuild Awards 2015 schedule

Investment & finance

Project Echo: mission almost accomplished

POLAND Polish developer Echo Investment been officially taken over.

Construction

Berger wins A1 motorway contract

POLAND A consortium of Berger Bau Polska and Berger Bau has been chosen by the Katowice branch of the General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) to construct a section of the A1 motorway near Częstochowa between the Blachownia interchange (excluding the interchange itself) and the Zawodzie interchange (including the interchange).

Investment & finance

PHN buys and leases Kaskada

POLAND Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) has bought a section of the Kaskada office building in central Warsaw from Bank Ochrony Środowiska (BOŚ).

Griffin wins and loses over Łazienki barracks plot

POLAND The Warsaw appeals court has upheld a decision of the city council to rescind Griffin Real Estate’s perpetual usufruct rights for a plot neighbouring Łazienki Park, while the site development conditions for the land were also annulled by the administrative court.