News

POLAND Skanska has won the tender for the construction of the technology incubator zone of the Kielce Technology Park (KPT). Skanska’s PLN 21.7 mln bid was chosen out of eleven offers.

CBRE to manage German centre in Moscow

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA CBRE has been chosen to provide facility management services for the German Centre for Industry and Trade office building on the third transport ring, app. 8 km south of the Kremlin.

Investment & finance

Alfaredo buys Moldova Mall

ROMANIA Alfaredo, a company controlled by businessman Gheorghe Iaciu, has bought Moldova Mall in Iași from Equest Balkan Properties (EBP), according to local media (last year, Gheorghe Iaciu also acquired a controlling stake in Romanian developer Impact).

Investment & finance

Meyer Bergman buys Fashion Arena for EUR 71.5 mln

Nathan North
managing editor

CZECH REPUBLIC TK Development and LMS Outlets Limited have today entered into an agreement to sell the Fashion Arena outlet centre in Štěrboholy (Prague 10) to UK investor Meyer Bergman for EUR 71.5 mln.

Get It gets into Adgar Park West

Nathan North
managing editor

POLAND Business translations company Get It has leased 600 sqm of office space for five years in Adgar Park West in Warsaw.

Retail & leisure

Praktiker Romania sold

ROMANIA Praktiker’s operations in Romania have been sold to building materials supplier Search Chemicals, which is controlled by Turkish businessman Ömer Süsli, according to local media reports.

Warehouse & industrial

Industrial market in CE similar to Germany

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

CE REGION The strength of the Central European industrial market, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, is comparable to that of Germany alone, is the conclusion of an analysis by Cushman & Wakefield.

Offices among Ursynów apartments

POLAND Belgian company Matexi is planning to develop office space in Warsaw’s Ursynów district. The offices are to be built as part of the Na Romera estate.

Budimex sees lower sales but more profit

POLAND Grupa Budimex has recorded sales worth PLN 4.75 bln for 2013 – a fall of 22 pct on 2012, when the company registered a record turnover of PLN 6.1 bln.

Uzdrowisko Horyniec taken by local authorities

POLAND The Uzdrowisko Horyniec health resort has been taken over by the Podkarpackie regional authorities, which have undertaken to invest in the centre.

Retail & leisure

Rossmann joins outlet centres in Lublin and Białystok

POLAND The Rossmann drugstore chain is to open stores in Outlet Center Lublin and Outlet Center Białystok.

Atal obtains financing for Łódź estate

POLAND Development company Atal has been granted a PLN 22 mln loan by Raiffeisen-Polbank to finance the development of an estate on ul. Rolnicza in Łódź.

Retail & leisure

DTZ to lease Galeria Metropolia

POLAND DTZ has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent for the Galeria Metropolia shopping centre, which is being developed in Gdańsk’s Wrzeszcz district.

Construction

Vantage appoints Erbud again

Aneta Cichla

POLAND Erbud has been appointed by Vantage subsidiary Promenady II VD to be the general contractor of the third stage of the Promenady Wrocławskie residential project in a contract worth PLN 30.6 mln net.

Final approval for Cinema City and Cineworld merger

Aneta Cichla

CEE REGION At an extraordinary general shareholders’ meeting the shareholders of Cinema City International have approved a plan to merge the company with Cineworld.

Construction

Skanska to extend Oborniki leisure centre

POLAND Skanska has signed a contract with the water and sewage corporation in Oborniki [Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji w Obornikach] to extend the Oborniki Centrum Rekreacji recreational centre in the town.

Warehouse & industrial

Ferdinand Gross in Segro Wrocław

POLAND Screw producer Ferdinand Gross has leased an area of app. 2,500 sqm in Segro Industrial Park Wrocław, where the company is to set up its main warehouse and distribution centre.

Polimex sells HQ

Aneta Cichla

POLAND Polimex-Mostostal has signed a conditional agreement for the sale of the right of perpetual usufruct to a property at ul. Czackiego 15/17 (the location of the company’s head office) to PKO TFI subsidiary Molina.

Groupon stays in Millennium Plaza

POLAND Groupon has renewed its lease in the Millennium Plaza building on Al. Jerozolimskie in Warsaw, where it has occupied an office area of 2,000 sqm since 2011.

Dow Jones changes Warsaw offices