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Retail & leisure

15 new Empiks by the end of the year

schedule 30 April 2014
Aneta Cichla

POLAND The Empik retail chain is to be expanded up to a minimum of 215 stores by the end of 2014.

Hotels

Orbis buys plot for Mercure hotel

schedule 30 April 2014
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Orbis has signed a contract with Alx Invest to buy a plot in Kraków.

Office & mixed-use development

Skanska starts work on second Wrocław office building

schedule 29 April 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Skanska is starting the construction of the second phase of the Dominikański office complex in Wrocław.

Architecture and urban planning

MVRDV wins hammer and sickle contest

schedule 28 April 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA The architectural and urban concept by Dutch architectural studio MVRDV has obtained the highest score in the international competition held by the city authorities to refurbish the 58 haterritory of the Moscow Metallurgical Plant Serp i Molot (‘Hammer and Sickle’).

Solar park in Buje

schedule 28 April 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

CROATIA Fibernet Solar has developed a 540 kWp solar park near Buje, close to the Slovenian port of Koper. It is equipped with modules produced by Chinese solar cell manufacturer CSUN and is to be connected to the grid by the end of April 2014.

Warehouse & industrial

Metro moves to Europolis Park Budapest

schedule 28 April 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

HUNGARY FMCG wholesale company Metro Kereskedelmi has leased 4,000 sqm of cold storage warehouse space and 273 sqm of office space in Europolis Park Budapest Aerozone, located the vicinity of Ferenc Liszt International Airport.

Political crisis cuts retail supply by half

schedule 28 April 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

UKRAINE This year’s retail supply in Kyiv is likely to amount to 205,000 sqm instead of 415,000 sqm as previously estimated, according to JLL.

NAM to open mall in Zhukovsky in Q2 2015

schedule 24 April 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA Norman Asset Management is planning to open the Torgoviy Park N1 shopping centre in Zhukovsky, 20 km southeast of the MKAD ring road in Moscow oblast.

Retail & leisure

Neonet to enter Szperk

schedule 24 April 2014
Aneta Cichla

POLAND From June, a Neonet electronics store will occupy over 500 sqm in the Galeria Szperk shopping centre in Kosakowo on the Baltic coast.

Wirtualna Polska to move into Oxygen Park

schedule 24 April 2014
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND Internet portal Wirtualna Polska is to occupy 2,400 sqm in building ‘B’ of the Oxygen Park office complex on Al. Jerozolimskie in Warsaw.

Interior design

RAI refurbishes HQ

schedule 24 April 2014
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Gdańsk-based construction company RAI has refurbished its head offices.

Human resources

Schindler lifts in Tarasy Zamkowe mall

schedule 24 April 2014
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Schindler lifts, escalators and travellators are to be installed in the Tarasy Zamkowe mall, which is under construction in Lublin.

Investment & finance

Mirbud wants to buy Arena Ostróda

schedule 24 April 2014
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Construction company Mirbud is planning to take over Demuth Alfa, the owner of the Arena Ostróda exhibition centre.

Office & mixed-use development

Królewska to be built in centre of Warsaw

schedule 24 April 2014
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Austrian-based S+B Gruppe is to start the construction of an office building at the junction of ul. Królewska and ul. Graniczna in Warsaw.

Retail & leisure

Shopping in Borek

schedule 24 April 2014
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Shopping has opened am 888 sqm store with clothes and home decoration products on the first floor of the Borek shopping centre on ul. Hallera in Wrocław.

Residential

Osiedle Moderno to be built in Wrocław

schedule 24 April 2014

POLAND Fadesa Polnord Polska is to build the Osiedle Moderno estate on ul. Piękna in Wrocław.

Office & mixed-use development

Echo gives up on Cracovia retail project

schedule 24 April 2014
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Echo Investment has changed its mind over the character of a project planned on the site of the former Cracovia hotel in Kraków.

LSR Group to redevelop ZiL plant

schedule 23 April 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA LSR Group has won a tender for the redevelopment of industrial areas within the premises of the ZiL plant in Moscow.

Office & mixed-use development

Tallest European tower “ready in 2015”

schedule 23 April 2014
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA The Federation Tower skyscraper in Moscow is to be completed by the end of next year, according to Mikhail Smirnov, the general director of Bashnya Federatsiya [Башня Федерация], which is developing the project in the Moscow International Business Center (also known as Moscow-City).

Construction

Prague forced to pay Metrostav CZK 4 bln for Blanka

schedule 23 April 2014
Nathan North
deputy editor

CZECH REPUBLIC The arbitration court in Prague has ruled that the city council must pay Metrostav CZK 2.7 bln (app. EUR 98 mln) for work done on the Blanka tunnel project as well as making gradual payments totalling CZK 1.34 bln for subsequent work, which according to the ruling now has to be completed within five months.

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