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POLAND Danish hearing aid producer Oticon has chosen an office design with walls that display pictures of a Scandinavian shore.

Wood and glass for Newps

CZECH REPUBLIC Data security company Newps has signed a lease in building B, which is currently under renovation in the BB Centrum in Prague, and will take up 1,000 sqm on the second floor from July.

Residential

Murapol sells by the thousand

POLAND Murapol has has put more than 1,100 apartments up for sale in seven projects that are under construction in Warsaw, Gdynia, Łódź, Gliwice, Siewierz and Mikołów.

Ktw II achieves 20 out of 133

Architecture and urban planning

POLAND The Ktw II office development in Katowice has now reached 20m in height.

Horizone designs Brest offices

Opr./edited by AZ

BELARUS Kraków-based Horizone Studio is preparing the design of the headquarter building of Polish-Belarusian IT company Epol Soft in Brest.

Marvipol sells plots to LaSalle

POLAND Marvipol Development and PG Dutch Holding I have entered into two preliminary agreements for their joint venture SPVs to sell development plots in Warsaw and west of the capital in Michałowice near Pruszków to LaSalle Investment Management KVG.

Residential

Apartments with a view of the gulf

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POLAND The sale of the units in Baltea Apartments, Develia’s sixth residential development in Gdańsk, has now been launched.

Hotels

Dream Island opens in Moscow

Alex Hayes
journalist

RUSSIA On Februrary 29th the 100 ha Dream Island theme park developed by Regions Developments is to open in central Moscow.

Green light for Kaufland to buy Tesco stores

POLAND The Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) has consented to the acquisition of four Tesco supermarkets by Kaufland Polska Markety.

Residential

Mostostal digging those digs

POLAND Mostostal has been awarded a contract for the construction of the BaseCamp Katowice student hall for its ordering party ST Katowice Krasińskiego.

Retail & leisure

Europe’s largest indoor aqua park opens

POLAND Suntago Wodny Świat, the largest indoor aqua park in Europe, has opened in Wręcza near Mszczonów (about 40 km southwest of Warsaw).

Offices on their way for former Lublin mall site

POLAND Construction work has started on the G7 Inter Office building in Lublin’s Węglin district.

Warehouse & industrial

Work begins on Panattoni Park Tricity South II

Alex Hayes
journalist

POLAND Panattoni is soon to launch construction work on Panattoni Park Tricity South II.

Warsaw trails the regions

POLAND At the end of 2019, Poland’s regional cities together had 5.6 mln sqm of office which is more than the total stock in Warsaw.

Land supply squeezed

POLAND. With a limited supply of development land plots, prices will continue to rise, predicts Knight Frank.

Human resources

Skanska centralises

CEE REGION Skanska has centralised its operations in the CEE region by appointing new deputy CEOs responsible for different divisions.

Hotels

Confidence returns to hotels

POLAND Despite poor business sentiment in the hotel and catering industry at the end of last year, the beginning of the year proved to be far more optimistic according to the ‘Barometer’ report by EFL

Offices and warehousing outperforming retail

POLAND Although the retail sector significantly weakened over Q4 2019, The markets for office and warehouse space remained stable in Poland, according to the latest RICS Poland Commercial Property Monitor.

Warehouse & industrial

Zalando opens third Polish centre

POLAND German online fashion retailer Zalando has officially opened its third Polish fulfilment centre, in Głuchów near Łódź.

Skanska signs up Timocom for Centrum Południe

26 February 2020