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POLAND Two tenants have extended their lease agreements, and a third has taken more office space in the Park Rozwoju complex at ul. Konstruktorska 12 in Warsaw.

Interior design

Puzzled on the floor

POLAND Power Rubber has presented its range of flooring mats for fitness clubs.

POLAND In 2018 the Robyg Group signed contracts for the sale of 2,520 units net, around 1,000 less than in 2017 when 3,470 sales contracts were signed. In the last quarter of 2018 Robyg signed sales contracts for 504 units (compared to 718 a year earlier).

Realco sells apartments in old mill

POLAND Realco Property Investment and Development has started apartment sales in its Młyn Maria project in Wrocław.

Tesco shutting up shop

POLAND Tesco is closing down 32 stores in Poland. This is part of the company’s plan to reduce operating costs and improve its competitiveness and profitability.

Carrefour watches empty shelves

EUROPE Start-up Qopius Technology, which specialises in image recognition software, has partnered with Carrefour, which now uses cameras to automatically monitor store shelves.

Union Investment racks up EUR 201 mln

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND In 2018, Union Investment leased a total of 854,00 sqm of commercial real estate space, slightly down from 867,000 sqm a year before.

Korona park completed

POLAND LC Corp has completed the construction of the third and final stage of its Korona Praga project on ul. Ostrobramska in Warsaw.

Dom Park to go self sufficient

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

BELARUS The Dom Park [Дом Парк] project is be constructed on 12.4 ha in Minsk’s Sokal [Сокал] district, on a plot adjacent to the Great Stone industrial park.

Murapol buying up Wrocław land

POLAND Murapol has signed a preliminary contract to buy a 0.45 ha plot of land on ul. Buforowa in Wroclaw for PLN 6.5 mln net.

Further regulations proposed for residential developers

POLAND The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection [UOKiK] is preparing draft legislation under which residential developers will have to set aside 5 pct of their revenues into a Development Guarantee Fund to safeguard homebuyers in the event of their own bankruptcy.

Hotels

Baltic Amber re-polished

Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Refurbishment work has begun on the Vienna House Amber Baltic hotel in Miedzyzdroje, close to Świnoujście on the western end of the Polish coast.

Interior design

Sowa forks outs for JMW design

Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Fork, on ul. Wspólna 35 in central Warsaw, is the latest restaurant of gourmet chef Robert Sowa. It has been designed by the JMW Architekci studio.

Retail & leisure

Galeria Kupiecka fills with tenants

Architecture and urban planning

POLAND More brands are to open in Galeria Kupiecka in Otwock on Warsaw’s south-eastern outskirts, including Media Expert and Top Market.

Silesian Uni faculty up for Mies Award

POLAND The new radio and television faculty of the University of Silesia in Katowice has been added to the short-list of buildings nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019 for architecture – the only Polish project to reach this stage.

EurobuildCEE

It’s good to know Who is Who

POLAND The registration process for being listed in the ‘Who is Who in Construction and Property in Poland’ catalogue will close on January 25th.

Etalon ups sales in 2018

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA Etalon sold 12,312 apartments in 2018 up 24 pct y-o-y.

Rhenus chooses Błonie

POLAND Rhenus Logistics has leased 41,000 sqm of warehouse space in Błonie near Warsaw. JLL advised the tenant on selecting the location and negotiating the lease terms.

CTP starts building in Hungary

HUNGARY Construction of a 32,000 sqm warehouse building In CTPark Budapest West is underway. Around 19,000 sqm of the space has already been pre-leased.

Warehouse & industrial

DSV with P3 for the first time