News

EUROBUILD CEE It was records, rankings and large transactions that dominated among the most popular stories last week:

Hotels

Ibis Styles Sarajevo opens

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Ibis Styles has opened a hotel in Sarajevo with 192 guestrooms.

Dealz and Pepco open in Poznań

POLAND Discount stores Pepco and Dealz have both signed leases in the Półwiejska 2 centre in Poznań.

Centrum Janki soon to reach full size

POLAND The work, which began in March 2017, on the extension of Centrum Janki is nearing completion. The extension is scheduled to open at the end of the summer.

Construction

Poczta Polska spruces up its properties

Agnieszka Zielińska

POLAND Poczta Polska (the Polish Post Office) wants to renovate more than 60 old buildings this year and spend around 40 pct of the budget allocation for renovations.

Residential

POLAND Higasa Properties is opening a retail park in Rawicz north of Wrocław this month and has started construction of a retail park in Dębrzno (northwest of Bydgoszcz), which is being built with funds from private investors through the company’s Higasa Club.

Residential

Minsk has its highest apartments

BELARUS construction work on the highest residential building in Belarus has been completed at the junction of Prospekte Pobeditelei [Проспект Победителей] and Narochanskaya street [улица Нарочанская] with the tower in the Lazurit [Лазурит] complex having reached a height of 138m.

Too Good To Go comes to Warsaw

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND Mobile app Too Good To Go has debuted this month (July) in Poland. Using the app, leftover food from cafés hotels and restaurants can be purchased at a discount of up to two thirds of the original price.

Mazda drives into Marynarska

POLAND Japanese car manufacturer Mazda has opened a professional training centre in Marynarska Point 2 in Warsaw’s Służewiec district.

Investment & finance

Benson Elliot takes Diamentum

Property and Facility Management

POLAND UK-based private equity real estate fund manager Benson Elliot, has acquired the Diamentum office building in Wrocław from Polish developer Cavatina for nearly EUR 20 mln.

ISOC turns to Savills

POLAND Philippine-based investor ISOC Group has appointed Savills as the property and asset manager for the first phase of the Wrocław Business Garden office complex in Wrocław’s Łódź Fabryczna district.

Immofinanz to open 81st Stop Shop

SERBIA Immofinanz is to open Stop Shop in Sremska Mitrovica on August 22nd, which will be the developer’s 81st retail park under this brand in the CEE region and southern Europe.

Second stage begins for Babice Nowe

POLAND Gdańsk-based developer RWS Investment Group has started the construction of the second stage of a retail park on ul. Warszawska in Babice Nowe near Warsaw.

Investment & finance

Globalworth completes EUR 113 mln deal

POLAND Globalworth has finalised the acquisition of the Retro Office House in Wrocław and Silesia Star in Katowice for EUR 113.2 mln.

Public buildings

Mirbud to demolish and build Opole sports hall

18 July 2019

Opr./edited by AKL

POLAND Mirbud has been awarded a contract with Opole city council to demolish the ‘Cieplak’ hall to make way for a new sports hall on the site.

Construction

Porr to build ski centre in Jakuszyce

18 July 2019

POLAND The Lower Silesian Innovation and Science Park has appointed Porr as the lead contractor to construct a cross-country skiing and biathlon centre in Szklarska Poręba-Jakuszyce.

Infrastructure

Warsaw to be rerailed

18 July 2019