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WORLD By 2050 our lives will have changed beyond recognition. We will be surrounded by intelligent machines, with household appliances taking care of most our needs and doing most of the housework for us. These were the conclusions reached during a debate entitled ‘The future of household appliances in a rapidly changing world’ held at the IFA trade fair for consumer electronics in Berlin.

Hotels

Hotel Warszawa reopens

POLAND The Likus group has started taking bookings for the Hotel Warszawa which is to be opened in Warsaw’s Prudential building on pl. Powstańców Warszawy on the corner of ul. Świętokrzyska.

Vis à Vis enters the final stretch

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POLAND The Vis à Vis shopping centre is to open in Warsaw in December.

Carrefour refreshed and renewed

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POLAND Carrefour Polska has renovated eight of its Polish stores since the beginning of this year and now stores in Biała Podlaska and Zamość are waiting their turn.

Dutch to buy Polish warehouse developer

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POLAND Dutch company ELP Holdco (Poland) intends to buy out all the shares of PDC Industrial Center 80, the SPV which is developing Panattoni Park Łódź East VII in Natolin near Łódź.

Residential

Third, fourth and fifth Centralna Park

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POLAND LC Corp has completed the development of the third stage of the Centralna Park project in Kraków’s Czyżyny district.

Miniso aiming for a hundred

Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND By the end of 2020, home accessories store chain Miniso plans to have opened 100 stores across Poland.

Events

Offices online and live

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND The 9th Eurobuild Office Market for Poland Conference is now behind us, but it will be remembered by participants and organisers as one of the most innovative events so far. Along with featuring the first ‘investor vs. tenant’ session and the first ‘100 questions to... a market personality’ section, we broadcast part of the conference on our YouTube channel for the first time.

Retail rails against tightening of Sunday trade ban

Office & mixed-use development

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POLAND Four retail organisations have made a joint declaration to the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, objecting to the amendment to the act on limiting Sunday trading.

Fincores stays at Francuska

POLAND Fincores Business Solutions (a subsidiary of the Ruch group, which is currently under restructuring) has renewed its 627 sqm office lease at the Francuska Office Centre in Katowice, Silesia.

Four brands have Mega debut

Anna Pakulniewicz

RUSSIA A number of fashion brands have debuted in Russia by opening stores in Mega Malls owned by Ingka Centres (former Ikea Centers Russia).

G-Star RAW opens in Forum Lviv

UKRAINE G-Star RAW has opened a 150 sqm store in the Forum Lviv shopping centre.

Investment & finance

Immofinanz buys eight retail parks

Alex Hayes
journalist

SLOVENIA/SERBIA/CROATIA Immofinanz is now purchasing eight retail parks for EUR 90.5 mln in Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia to add to its Stop Shop brand.

Refurbishment plans announced by CPI

HUNGARY/CZECH REPUBLIC/POLAND CPI has announced plans to refurbish the Campona shopping centre in Budapest.

Ikea returns to Jerozolimskie

POLAND Ikea is to return to Al. Jerozolimskie in Warsaw after being absent from the street for 20 years. On October 23rd the Swedish furniture store will be open in the Blue City shopping centre with its new, small format.

Action expanding rapidly

POLAND The Action chain of discount stores from the Netherlands plans to have almost 20 stores in Poland by the end of the year and has also begun work on a 56,500 sqm distribution centre in Osła around 100 km west of Wrocław.

Third PropTech Awards competition now open

WORLD on May 16th, 2019 the gala ceremony for the third PropTech Innovation Awards is to be held in Berlin with prize money of EUR 40,000 to be awarded by Union Investment and German Tech Entrepreneurship Center.

Residential

Sales start for Nowa Grochowska

POLAND Atal has launched apartment sales for the first stage of it Nowa Grochowska estate in Warsaw’s Praga-Południe district.

Douglas and Monnari still in Gemini Park

POLAND Douglas and Monnari have both renewed their leases for stores of 263 sqm and 242 sqm respectively. the Gemini Park Tarnów shopping centre.

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