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POLAND Skanska is to build the Pro-Akademia centre for research and innovation in Konstantynów Łódzki in a contract worth PLN 2.6 mln.

Capgemini leases 2,400 sqm in Palas Iaşi

ROMANIA Outsourcing services provider Capgemini has leased 2,400 sqm in the United Business Center ‘3’ building in the Palas Iaşi mixed-use project.

Investment & finance

Domodedovo Airport can be sold for USD 4.7 bln

RUSSIA Moscow Domodedovo Airport is close to being sold, according to anonymous sources cited by rbcdaily.ru. The owner of the property, Russian businessman Dmitrii Kamenshchik, is currently in negotiations with the potential buyers.

Warehouse & industrial

Four leases for Segro

POLAND/CZECH REPUBLIC Segro has signed three new lease contracts with tenants in Segro Business Park Warsaw.

Retail & leisure

Two furniture stores open in Europa Centralna

POLAND Meble Dobrodzień Kalwaria has leased almost 900m in the Europa Centralna shopping complex in Gliwice.

Bouygues to build another office centre in Warsaw

POLAND Bouygues Immobilier is preparing another office complex in Warsaw’s Ochota district. It will built close to Miasteczko Orange, recently developed by the company for the TP Group.

PHN confirms Hochtief JV

POLAND On October 3rd Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) is to sign an agreement with Hochtief for the development of an office tower at ul. Swiętokrzyska 36 in Warsaw, according to the former company’s latest stock exchange announcement.

Green certified space to triple in Russia

RUSSIA By the end of 2015, Russian green certified office and industrial stock is expected to almost triple – growing from the current 450,000 sqm to 1.2 mln sqm, according to research by Jones Lang LaSalle.

Investment & finance

PPF buys Galleria Moda

CZECH REPUBLIC Galleria Moda, close to the Václav Havel Airport in Prague-Ruzyne, has been acquired in bankruptcy proceedings by Dreitonel, part of the PPF group – according to local media.

IVG Private Funds to be closed down

EUROPE The management and supervisory boards of IVG Immobilien have decided to discontinue the business activities of IVG Private Funds.

Retail & leisure

Roksolana to open in Q1 2014

UKRAINE The Roksolana mixed-use development in Lviv is to open in the first quarter of next year.

Maverick Hostel in office complex

HUNGARY Maverick Hostel has leased 1,370 sqm in Budapest from SEB Asset Management. Conversion work on the former office building, which is part of a four-building complex on Kazinczy street, has already begun.

Bank Zachodni WBK to move into Atrium 1

POLAND Skanska Property Poland has signed a lease with Bank Zachodni WBK of the Santander Group for 12,200 sqm of offices in the Atrium 1 building in Warsaw, as well as a bank branch on the ground floor. Atrium 1, which is currently under construction at the ONZ roundabout in the city, is now 80 pct leased.

PHN teams up with Hochtief

POLAND Hochtief Development will probably partner PHN in the development of the PHN Tower in Warsaw, ‘Eurobuild CEE’ has discovered.

Warehouse & industrial

Amazon comes to Poland

Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND American internet retail giant Amazon wants to locate five distribution centres in the CEE region. Three of them will be located in Poland and two in the Czech Republic, according to sources of ‘Eurobuild CEE’.

Nordea centre in Łódź 1

POLAND Financial group Nordea is to open its second operations centre in the Łódź 1 office building in Łódź.

Echo subsidiaries issue bonds

POLAND Echo Investment subsidiaries Mena Investment and Echo-SPV 7 have issued bonds with a combined value of PLN 75 mln.

Construction

Pol-Aqua sues Marvipol

POLAND Przedsiębiorstwo Robót Inżynieryjnych Pol-Aqua has begun legal proceedings against Marvipol in a dispute over the construction of the New Hill Park estate (which has now been renamed Hill Park Apartments) in Warsaw.

Media Expert to open in Radom

POLAND Two new tenants are to enter the Atrium Gama shopping centre in Radom at the beginning of October.

Residential

Atal starts work on Łódź estate