News

POLAND Anti smog paving is to be laid down next to the Wave office building under development by Skanska in Gdańsk.

Warehouse & industrial

Zalando Lounge centre officially opened

POLAND Zalando has officially opened a 130,000 sqm logistics centre in Olsztynek in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie province for its Zalando Lounge shopping club. The centre will handle deliveries to 13 European countries.

Green projects

Excellent news for Focus Park Rybnik

POLAND The Focus Park shopping centre in Rybnik in Silesia has been awarded a BREEAM certificate with the highest possible rating, ‘Excellent’, in the asset performance and building management categories.

Construction

Unibep to build for Yareal

POLAND Unibep has been chosen as the general contractor for the Soho 18 residential project on ul. Mińska in Warsaw’s Praga Południe district.

Public buildings

Warsaw University Library more fit for purpose

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POLAND A multifunctional sports centre has opened in the basement of the Warsaw University Library (BUW).

Investors in love with offices

POLAND A record EUR 3.5 bln could be invested in the office market by the end of the year, says JLL.

Konica Minolta spreads out in the park

POLAND Konica Minolta has leased 4,400 sqm in the seventh building of the The Park Warsaw, which is being developed by White Star Real Estate on ul. Krakowiaków in Warsaw’s Włochy district.

Residential

GM Invest to build more apartments on the Baltic

POLAND GM Invest is to develop the Cetniewo Osada apartment project in the coastal town of Władysławowo.

Public buildings

Occupancy permit for Pilsudski Museum

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POLAND The Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek outside Warsaw has been granted an occupancy permit.

Investment & finance

Warta sells Warsaw building

POLAND Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń i Reasekuracji Warta has finalised the sale of an office building at Al, Jerozolimskie 133a, west of Warsaw city centre, to an undisclosed buyer.

Nippon Seiki doubles Gdańsk offices

POLAND Less than a year after it opened offices in the Argon building in Gdańsk, driver information display systems designer and producer Nippon Seiki has more than doubled the space it leases to more than 1,500 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Getinge gets bigger Segro Poznań

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POLAND Swedish health care technology company Getinge IC Production has extended its lease of around 8,000 sqm in Segro Logistics Park Poznań in Komorniki, on the south-western outskirts of the city.

Coworking on the rise

WORLD Almost two-thirds of companies now use coworking to some degree and many expect to double their usage over the next five years, according to Cushman & Wakefield and CoreNet Global, in their survey of 550 key commercial real estate executives across the world.

Cloudity stays in the tower

POLAND IT company Cloudity has renewed its lease agreement and expanded its office space to 700 sqm in the Zebra Tower office building.

Orbis split to happen in days

CEE REGION Orbis Hotel Group has announced that it will complete the sale of its light asset business to Accor by the end of October.

Construction

Work starts on Nova

POLAND Construction work has begun on the Nova department store in Limanowa, a town in southern Poland. At the beginning of September work began on knocking down the previous buildings on the site.

Erbud to build more apartments in Kraków

POLAND Erbud has been appointed by AN3 to build the Novum III Apartments project in Kraków in a contract worth PLN 115 mln.

Dairy to become Nu Semi

POLAND Nu Semi has received a building permit for a mixed-use building with offices, restaurants and a hotel at ul. Towarowa 30 in Warsaw's Wola district.

Warehouse & industrial

Panattoni to build City Logistics Warsaw III

Alex Hayes
journalist

POLAND Panattoni Europe is to develop 25,000 sqm of space at City Logistics Warsaw III.

Construction

Matarnia on its way to Gdańsk