News

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND Support for the current ban on retail trade for three Sundays every month and the total ban that is to come into effect in 2020 is dwindling according to the latest survey conducted by Maison & Partners on behalf of the Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers.

Galeria Hosso now open

Aneta Cichla

POLAND The Galeria Hosso centre has been opened in Drawsko Pomorskie in northwest Poland.

Residential

Yareal launches Soho project

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND Yareal has started apartment sales for the first stage of its Soho by Yareal residential project under construction on former industrial land in Warsaw’s Praga-Południe district.

Farutex expands with Segro

POLAND Farutex, a grocery supplier for hotels and restaurants, has increased the size of its lease from 5,500 sqm to 6,200 sqm in the Segro Business Park Warsaw, Żerań with the agreement also being extended for a further six years.

Construction

Warsaw Hub reaches highest point

Office & mixed-use development

Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND The structure of the 85m tower A in the Warsaw Hub office and hotel complex, which is being developed by Ghelamco in the city’s Wola business district, has now been completed. Most of the façade of the building has also been covered. Tower B, in the middle of the complex, is to reach its target height of 130m in the next few weeks, while the topping off of building C should take place in the autumn.

Topping off at Mennica

POLAND The shell of the 140m Mennica Legacy Tower at the junction of ul. Prosta and ul. Żelazna in Warsaw’s Wola business district has been completed.

Silesia Outlet opens its doors

Opr./edited by AZ

POLAND The Silesia Outlet centre has been opened in Gliwice by Austrian-owned investor 6B47.

Events

Great expectations

Eurobuild Conferences

POLAND There are so many different places you can choose to work in these days: a lively café, a hotel lobby, a quiet corner at home, the co-working space attractive to creative types or even in the traditional office space in a glass tower…but what do the younger generations (and not only them) expect of their workplaces? Are their expectations being met – and if so, how?

Bathroom accessories in Prologis Park Błonie

POLAND Kitchen and bathroom online store 123lazienka.pl has leased 3,200 sqm of warehouse space with 200 sqm of offices in the Prologis Park Błonie logistics park near Warsaw.

Rhenus comes to Logicor Sosnowiec

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND Logistics company Rhenus Delivery Services has leased 2,800 sqm of space in the Logicor Sosnowiec warehouse park.

Say hi to Hi Piotrkowska – in a year

Opr./edited by TC

POLAND Hi Piotrkowska 155, a mixed-use office and service complex under development in the centre of Łódź, has entered a new phase of construction. The stage is scheduled for completion in Q1 2020. Work has started on the second floor of the office tower, while the top floors of the hotel and a small office building have already been reached.

Chocolatey fun at Galeria Malta

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND The Lider Plac Zabaw playroom is to open in Galeria Malta in Poznań in June in a surprising form – as a model chocolate factory.

Investment & finance

DBK buys SES mall in Prague

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

CZECH REPUBLIC Czech retail specialist DBK has acquired a majority stake in Europark Štěrboholy in Prague 10 from Austrian developer SES Spar European Centers for an undisclosed sum.

Hillwood now in Częstochowa

Opr./edited by TC

POLAND Hillwood is launching the Hillwood Częstochowa Zachód logistics centre with the first tenants to move in in Q4 of this year.

PHN and Hillwood join forces in Świebodzin

Agnieszka Zielińska

POLAND Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) has signed a joint venture agreement with Hillwood Polska and HE Dutch II B.V. to build a 10,000 sqm logistics and warehouse centre near Świebodzin on a site owned by PHN.

Residential

Yareal sees the positive

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND Yareal has started sales fot its Pozytywny Mokotów project, which will comprise over 600 apartments in seven buildings built in three stages near ul. Postępu and ul. Konstruktorska in Warsaw.

Interior design

Corridors in black and white

Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND The corridors of the Wspólna 47/49 office building in Warsaw owned by CA Immo have been designed by Spaceplan.

AristoInvest comes to Zielona Góra

POLAND A mixed-use complex will be developed by AristoInvest near the Focus Mall shopping centre in Zielona Góra and will include a retail park, an office building and a hotel.

Proptech Romania launched

Agnieszka Zielińska

ROMANIA The Proptech.ro organisation was launched in Cluj Napoca at the Startup Europe Summit 2019 held from March 21st-22nd.

Auchan Kołbaskowo made anew