News

Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND Fujitsu Technology Solutions has signed a five-year lease for 1,300 sqm of office space in the Oxygen Park office complex on Al. Jerozolimskie in Warsaw.

Assembly hall for Rafamet

POLAND Machine tool producer Rafamet has appointed Pro-Invest to build an assembly hall in a design and build contract in Kuźnia Raciborska in the Silesia region.

Retail & leisure

C&A enters Gliwice

POLAND C&A is to open its first store in Gliwice in the Forum shopping centre in the autumn. A 914 sqm outlet will be situated on the ground floor of the mall.

Skanska to redevelop Wrocław road

POLAND Skanska has been appointed by the city of Wrocław to redevelop a section of ul. Okulnickiego in the city between ul. Przedwiośnie and ul. Odolanowska.

Russian tycoon to buy quarter of O1 Properties

RUSSIA Russian billionaire, president and key shareholder of ICT Group, Alexander Nesis is close to finalising the purchase of 25 pct plus one share of the investment and development company O1 Properties, according to ‘RBC Daily’.

Warehouse & industrial

Warehouse take-up in Poland breaks record

POLAND Modern warehouse take-up in 2013 came to around 2.14 mln sqm, the highest on record – according to a research by Cushman & Wakefield.

IVG announces insolvency plan

EUROPE IVG Immobilien has published a restructuring plan, which should lead to the company’s exit from bankruptcy proceedings.

Griffin buys Microsoft HQ

Architecture and urban planning

POLAND Griffin Group has purchased Company House II at Al. Jerozolimskie 195A in Warsaw from Axa Real Estate.

Competition for redevelopment of pl. Małachowskiego

POLAND The city of Warsaw is to hold an architectural competition to select the best project for the modernisation design of pl. Małachowskiego in the city centre.

PLN 200 mln road contract for Budimex

Aneta Cichla

POLAND Budimex has been appointed as the general contractor for the Kaczkowo-Korzeńsko section of the S5 Poznań–Wrocław expressway (which includes the ring road of Bojanowo and Rawicz).

Retail & leisure

Two malls, three leases

Aneta Cichla

POLAND Carrefour Polska has secured the signing of three leases for two of its malls

PHN to sell historic Warsaw villa

POLAND Polski Holding Nieruchomości is selling a villa on ul. Filtrowa in Warsaw’s Stara Ochota district.

Warsaw roads to be redeveloped

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND A tender has been announced for the redevelopment of ul. Wołoska in Warsaw between ul. Racławicka and ul. Konstruktorska, which has been a traffic bottleneck for those travelling to and from the city’s Służewiec district for many years.

HB Reavis secures EUR 36.5 mln loan for River Garden II/III

Nathan North
managing editor

CZECH REPUBLIC HB Reavis has secured financing for the construction and project management of its River Garden II/III project in Prague’s Karlín district.

Warehouse & industrial

Panattoni Park Łódź East grows

POLAND The fourth stage of Panattoni Park Łódź East is under construction, with a further 8,300 sqm being added to the park to bring its total area up to around 160,000 sqm.

70,000 sqm mall to be built in Odintsovo

RUSSIA A 70,000 sqm shopping centre shopping centre offering 39,000 sqm of leasable space is to be developed in the town of Odintsovo, app. 30 km from the centre of the Russian capital.

EUR 72 mln oceanarium to be built in St Petersburg

RUSSIA Optima is planning to develop a EUR 72 mln oceanarium in St Petersburg’s Frunzenskiy district.

Polish hotels ranked amongst the best in world

24 February 2014