News

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND The Kvarko fund has invested PLN 1.2 mln in Hotel Application, a company that is working on the development of a mobile app for hotels that uses artificial intelligence to support the organisation of events and conferences.

Investment & finance

Explora goes to Golden Star

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

CZECH REPUBLIC Avestus Capital Partners has finalised the sale of the Explora Business Centre in Nové Butovice in Prague 5 to Golden Star Group for an undisclosed sum.

Work starts on Port Popowice

POLAND Erbud has been chosen as the general contractor for the first stage of the Port Popowice project in Wrocław by Vantage Development subsidiary Winhall Investments.

The Nest to open on Piękna

POLAND The Nest is to open its first co-working centre in a building under development at the junction of ul. Koszykowa and ul. Piękna.

Human resources

Polish management comes to China

CHINA From September Anna Pawlak-Kuliga, the current CEO of Ikea Retail Polska, will be responsible for China Ikea’s largest global market in the world.

Events

ReDI 2018 now behind us

This year 50 exhibitors and 400 people from Poland and abroad participated in the two-day ReDI 2018 (June 6th-7th) retail trade fair organised by the Polish Council of Shopping Centres (PRCH) in the Centrum Praskie Koneser centre in Warsaw.

BPO floods into Łódź

POLAND The BPO/SSC sector employs about 18,000 people in and around Łódź there was a 16 pct increase in employment in this sector in the last year alone or around 2,500 new jobs, according to the ‘Human Capital in the Łódź Region’ report just published by Antal.

Interior design

Atrium Centrum lifts lid on facelift

POLAND The latest interiors of the Atrium Centrum office building have been unveiled. The work, which has taken six months, involved improvements to the design of the lobby and passageways.

Carbon tower rises

POLAND The Carbon Tower office project under development by Cavatina Holding at the junction of ul. Robotnicza and ul. Fabryczna in Wrocław, has now reached two thirds of its planned height and work on the façade has begun for the first three floors.

Residential

Matexi prepares for Na Bielany

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND Matexi Polska is preparing to launch work on the Na Bielany estate with more than 300 apartments to be built on ul. Heroldów in Warsaw's Młociny district.

Technology

So real you can almost touch it

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND Unimax Development sales offices are to use touch screens with Yslab’s interactive Touch app that allow for the 3D display of residential projects in VR.

Interior design

Forbis dresses up for Pawo

Aneta Cichla

POLAND The Pawo menswear store in the Złote Tarasy shopping centre in Warsaw has opened with a new interior designed by Forbis Group.

Human resources

Service sector still all the rage

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND A total of 279,000 people were employed in business service centres in Poland at the end of Q1 2018, according to the latest report by the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL).

Warehouse & industrial

XBS extends in P3 Błonie

POLAND Logistics provider XBS Logistics has renegotiated its 10,000 sqm lease at the P3 Błonie logistics park. The tenant was represented by real estate advisory Cresa Poland.

Leases signed in Mani

Alex Hayes
journalist

CROATIA M7 Real Estate has announced that it has signed six new leases for app. 5,000 sqm of space at Mani Business Centre in Zagreb.

Retail & leisure

Children in the shopping spotlight

Aneta Cichla

POLAND Rooms for parents with children, public playgrounds and a specially tailored range of services – this is now becoming the norm for most Polish shopping centres, according to the third ‘Child-Friendly Shopping Centres’ [‘Centra Przyjazne Dzieciom’] report by Colliers International, the Polish Council of Shopping Centers [PRCH] and research company Ariadna.

H&M to move to Unirii View

Alex Hayes
journalist

ROMANIA H&M Romania, the leader of the local fashion market, leased 1,000 sqm in the Unirii View office building in Bucharest.

Hotels

Focus comes to Poznań

POLAND Focus Hotels has completed the construction of its first hotel in Poznań on ul. Serafitek.

Retail & leisure

Sezam reopens

18 June 2018

POLAND The grand reopening of the Sezam store has taken place in Centrum Marszałkowska. Meanwhile work is in progress to revitalise the surrounding passageways.

Retail & leisure

Mińska 58 nearing completion

18 June 2018