News

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND Liberty Tower, which is to be built at the corner of ul. Żelazna and ul. Grzybowska in Warsaw, will be a 41-storey residential block with a height of 140m and a cascading roof. The building, which is designed by US-based architectural studio Arquitectonica with Epstein acting as the local architectural partner, is also to house a hotel. Work is scheduled to start in Q2 2020.

Charles Square Center hits 96 pct mark

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

CZECH REPUBLIC A total of 6,700 sqm of office and retail space has recently been leased in the Charles Square Center building on Karlovo náměstí in Prague 2.

Bilfinger to build pharmaceutical plant

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA Russian pharma company NovaMedica has appointed Bilfinger Industrietechnik Salzburg to construct a pharmaceutical factory in the Vorsino industrial park in the Kaluga region, 190 km southwest of Moscow.

Technology

Skanska joins forces with Microsoft

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND Skanska has signed a strategic partnership with Microsoft to develop innovative systems for the real estate sector.

Hotels

B&B to open in Lublin

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND B&B Hotels is to open its seventh Polish hotel in Lublin in 2020.

Rzeszów Business Park almost open

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND Rzeszów Business Park is to open in March.

Residential

Apartment sales begin for Flisac

Opr./edited by TC

POLAND Ghelamco has started apartment sales in the Flisac apartment building which is under construction at the junction of ul. Tamka and Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie in Warsaw's Powiśle district.

Interior design

Immofinanz turns to JMW

POLAND JMW Architekci has redesigned the lobbies of four buildings in the Empark Mokotów Business Park in Warsaw: Taurus, Orion, Sirius and Saturn. Immofinanz wanted new interiors that would fit the original design of the buildings, constructed between 1996 and 2010.

Eurobuild Awards

Ten years after – a decade of success

POLAND A decade ago ‘Eurobuild CEE’ magazine launched a project that few people at the time believed in. Today the Eurobuild Awards has become the most important event of its kind on the commercial real estate market.

HB Reavis enters Germany

Alex Hayes
journalist

EUROPE Slovakian developer HB Reavis has entered onto the German market through the purchase of two sites in Dresden and Berlin with a total area of 3.5 ha.

AFI to take over Casa Radio

Alex Hayes
journalist

ROMANIA Plaza Centers has signed a non-binding letter of intent with AFI Europe to sell its 75 pct stake in the Casa Radio project in Bucharest for EUR 60 mln.

GVA sold to Avison Young

10 February 2019

Alex Hayes
journalist

WORLD Canadian based Avison Young has purchased real estate advisory GVA.

Slovaks wind down in Czechia

Eurobuild CEE

CZECH REPUBLIC HB Reavis is to sell off almost all of its projects and plots in the Czech Republic.

Union hands over management to Multi

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Union Investment has appointed Multi Poland as the manager of the 3 Stawy shopping centre in Katowice. Multi is to be responsible for the asset management, the facility management, the leasing, and the marketing.

Office & mixed-use development

New Work in retro building

Architecture and urban planning

Opr./edited by TSG

POLAND Hungarian serviced offices operator New Work has doubled the space it will occupy in the Wola Retro office building, which is under construction in Warsaw’s Wola district. The company has also announced that it is planning other openings in Warsaw and across the CEE region.

Towering prospects for pl. Zawiszy

POLAND A concept has been published for the transformation of the area around pl. Zawiszy in Warsaw.

Retail & leisure

Saller gets going in Śrem

Opr./edited by AZ

POLAND Saller Group has started the construction of the Park Handlowy retail park in Śrem, about 40 km south of Poznań.

Retail & leisure

Stokrotka swallows Sano