News

POLAND Ambra has created the Distillers Limited chain of off licence stores to sell premium spirits.

Investment & finance

Immo looking for investor to build Molto in Empark

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Immofinanz, the owner of the Empark office complex, the oldest business park in Warsaw’s Służewiec district, is planning the demolition of a number of office buildings and in their stead a residential estate is to be built.

LC Corp buys Kraków land

POLAND Residential developer LC Corp has bought a 5.2 ha plot on ul. Centralna in Kraków’s Czyżyny district for PLN 48 mln net.

Retail & leisure

PRCH awards best retailers of 2018

POLAND Kazar has won the award for best retail chain in the ninth Retail Awards organised by the Polish Council of Shopping Centres (PRCH), while the eobuwie.pl online store has won the award for best new brand.

Investment & finance

Estate auctioned once again

BELARUS The former Radziwiłł family estate in the village of Palaneczka near Baranavichy has once again been put up for auction.

Robyg stays on target

POLAND Robyg signed sales and reservation agreements for 2016 apartments (excluding withdrawals) in Warsaw and Gdańsk over the first three quarters of 2018.

Retail & leisure

Tenants sign up for Chełm

POLAND LPP, Martes Sport and RTV Euro AGD are to lease stores in the Galeria Chełm shopping centre, which is being developed by Acteeum Central Europe and Equilis in Chełm.

Business services take 28 pct of all office space

POLAND Business service centres occupy more than 2.5 mln sqm of office space in Poland according to estimates by JLL. This accounts for 28 pct of the total office stock in the country.

Echo Investment issues bonds worth PLN 50 mln

POLAND Echo Investment’s latest bond issue worth PLN 50 mln is fully subscribed.

Zielone Bemowo topped off

POLAND The first stage of the Zielone Bemowo residential estate comprising three buildings with 112 apartments has been topped off.

EurobuildCEE

Museum plaque laid

POLAND A plaque laying and groundbreaking ceremony has taken place at the construction site of the Polish History Museum in the grounds of the Warsaw Citadel, which is to be renamed Park Niepodległości [Independence Park].

Public buildings

Bydgoszcz Music Academy to gain a home

POLAND A campus is to be constructed on ul. Chodkiewicza for the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz in an investment of over PLN 100 mln.

Ikea records PLN 4 bln

POLAND Ikea Retail has recorded an 11 pct rise in turnover to PLN 4.03 bln for the financial year that ended in August.

Les Mousquetaires up in the billions

POLAND Les Mousquetaires, the owner of the Intermarché and Bricomarché chains has recorded a turnover of PLN 5.5 bln for the first three quarters of 2018, up by 6 pct on the same period of the previous year.

Artificial intelligence, real profit

Architecture and urban planning

WORLD After ‘Multichannel’ and ‘Omnichannel’ sales, the latest trend to shake up the retail market is ‘Optichannel’.

Two heritage photos chosen

Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND Sławomir Rogowski and Paweł Czarnecki have won the ‘Warsaw and its Heritage’ photography competition for their photographs entitled ‘Dialog’ and ‘Fuzja’ and will travel to Chicago for a series of photography workshops.

Warehouse & industrial

Prologis Park Łódź topped off

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Prologis has topped off its first building in Prologis Park Łódź.

Panattoni to build hydraulics factory

POLAND Panattoni Europe is to build hydraulic engineering company Voss Fluid a 10,555 sqm factory in the Legnica Special Economic Zone. The transaction was mediated by JLL.

Construction

First stone laid for Vilda

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND A joint venture of BPI Real Estate Poland and Acteeum Group have laid the foundation stone for the Vilda Park residential project on ul. Droga Dębińska in Poznań’s Wilda district.

Investment & finance

Science Park changes hands