News
The man from UOKiK says yes
POLAND The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection [UOKiK] has agreed to the takeover of Doraco by Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN).
Architecture and urban planning
Cavatina remodels Młode Miasto project
POLAND Cavatina has been holding talks over the development of a two-building office project in Gdańsk with the Pomeranian monuments preservation department.
JW sells 580 apartments
POLAND JW Construction has reported the sale of 580 apartments in the previous quarter, which means that it sold a total of 1,819 units in 2017.
Public buildings
Łódź museum generates electricity
POLAND The Science and Technology Centre has opened in the EC1 complex in Łódź with an exhibition area of 8,000 sqm. The project’s costs came to PLN 45.5 mln.
Busy year for Mirbud
POLAND Mirbud started five construction projects, completed 13 projects and signed 15 new contracts in 2017.
Interior design
Café Bristol revamped
POLAND Café Bristol, in the Bristol Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Warsaw, has been refurbished and re-opened after a two-month break.
Office & mixed-use development
Park Town to arise
LITHUANIA The construction of the Park Town office building at ul. Lvovo 105A in Vilnius is to be completed in 2019.
Technology
Interactive hotel showers
POLAND/CEE REGION AccorHotels has adjudicated the Guest Experience Challenge competition for digital hotel bathrooms and chosen intelligent shower management system ‘SmarTap’ as the winner.
Swapping tracks for apartments
POLAND Polish State Railways [PKP] has handed over a list of a further 108 plots to the government for its Apartment Plus programme.
Technology
Es-System lights up chocolate factory
POLAND Polish company Es-System has installed the lighting a new production plant of Wawel in Dobczyce.
Residential
Ground work starts on Awiator
POLAND AWZ Deweloper has started ground work on the site of the Awiator luxury apartment building in the Bartodzieje district in Bydgoszcz.
Vantage sees 45 pct sales growth
POLAND Vantage Development sold 305 homes in Q4 2017 (up by 45 pct y-o-y) and 1,034 throughout 2017 (up by 37 pct y-o-y).
Investment & finance
Robyg closer to acquisition
POLAND Goldman Sachs subsidiary Bricks Acquisitions has received approval from the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection [UOKiK] to take over residential developer Robyg.
Ever more sales via smartphones
POLAND Smartphones are becoming more important in online trade.
Altus ups stake in Tower Investments
POLAND Altus TFI has reported that it has acquired a right to purchase series C shares in retail chain developer Tower Investments. This will result in Altus increasing its stake from 5 pct (which it has held since 2017) to 11.22 pct in the Warsaw based company.
Romanian investment environment improves
ROMANIA Last year’s property investment volume for Romania is estimated at almost EUR1 bln, which is 10 pct higher than in 2016 (EUR 890 mln), according to figures from Jll.
Retail & leisure
Libero with new shoes
POLAND Polish shoe brand Gino Rossi is to open a store in the Libero shopping centre in Katowice.
Technology
Artistic installation dines on smog
POLAND The Dust Eater [Zjadacz Kurzu] is a 4m sculpture by Kuba Bąkowski and a machine that absorbs smog and examines the quality of the air. The sculpture is most probably to be erected in both Warsaw and Wrocław this year.
Office & mixed-use development
Work starts on Second phase of Generation Park
POLAND In December 2017, Skanska began the construction of the second stage of the Generation Park office complex in Warsaw.
Orco buys 380 ha
CZECH REPUBLIC Orco has purchased plots with a combined area of 380-ha in the north and west of the Czech Republic from its mother company CPI Property Group.
Categories
Architecture and urban planning
MoMA wins architectural grand prix
The 11th Architectural Awards of the Mayor of Warsaw [11. edycji Nagrody Architektonicznej Prezydenta m.st. Warszawy] were held on June 3rd, at Teatr ...
Poznań with a green Aura
Dutch-Czech team wins Dejvice contest
Construction
2025 looks optimistic for the construction companies
According to a report by research company Spectis “Construction companies in Poland 2025-2030”, the total revenues of the 300 leading construction gro ...
Strabag to build The Arc
Digitalisation to the rescue
Coronavirus
Vaccination centre provided by Globalworth
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Employers in no rush to return to workplaces
Catella sees hope and chances for real estate after Covid-19
Corporate social responsibility
Not only for horses
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
Panattoni sticks to the fairway
Colliers ends operations in Russia, Belarus
E-commerce
This is the end
Shopee is ending its operations in Poland. The Asian e-commerce platform, which debuted in Poland in 2021, intends to focus on operations in other reg ...
Wildberries now growing in Ukraine
Wildberries growing in April
ESG
B10 takes WiredScore Platinum
The B10 office building in Wrocław, owned by Vastint Poland, has been certified with a WiredScore Platinum rating. The certification is an assessment ...
Moderna Office goes Platinum
GTC teams up with Paul
Eurobuild Awards
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Who won this year's 14th edition of the Eurobuild Awards? The jury and guests gathered at the Double Tree by Hilton hotel in Warsaw chose this year's ...
Call for nominations and jury members!
Let's live this again!
Eurobuild FM
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 3
Enjoy the last set of recordings with comments straight from this year's MIPIM. This time, we asked experts from our home country for their input.
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 2
Poland versus the West
EurobuildCEE
Eurobuild celebrates its 300th issue!
We are proud to present the exceptional 300th anniversary issue of ‘EurobuildCEE’ magazine! This is not just a round number, it’s also an important mi ...
The June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The May issue of EurobuildCEE is out now!
Events
Race'N'Raise supports rural children's education
Logicor has raised over PLN 40,000 in the 4th Race'n'Raise charity cycle race to support the EFC Foundation's Horizons Scholarship Program.
CPK arises
Back to the Future Conference
Exclusive
Demand for PBSA continues to accelerate
We’ve asked Susanna Graziano, the business development manager of ASK4, who is actively engaged in the evolving Polish PBSA and flex-living markets, t ...
More than 15 minutes of fame
Capitalising on the landlord's market
Eye to eye
Eye to eye… with Władysław Grochowski
After a long break, we invite you to hot episode of the "Eye to eye" podcast! Today we talk with Władysław Grochowski, the head and founder of Arche.
Eye to eye… with Paweł Sapek
Eye to eye with… Daniel Bienias
For Ukraine
Nansen Refugee Award goes to Poland!
The UN Nansen Refugee Award award will go to Poland for the first time. According to the office of the UNHCR High Commissioner this year's regional wi ...
Build Europe supports refugees and appeals to European Commission
Former Russian building to house Ukrainian refugees
Green projects
EIB grants CTP solar-powered €200m loan
Czech developer CTP has been granted a EUR 200 mln loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out of its large-scale solar panel installation ...
Cromwell granted €66m green loan for Janki
Pad Res to build 2 PV farms in Pomerania
Hotels
Mercure comes to Transylvania
The Mercure Hotels & Resorts chain has opened its first hotel in Transylvania. The Mercure Alba Iulia has 118 rooms as well as modular meeting spaces. ...
Redefining luxury
Romanian hotel market continues to recover
Human resources
Panattoni bets big on data centres
Panattoni is launching a new strategic initiative to develop data centres in Europe, the UK, India and the Middle East. Four experienced specialists h ...
Five new board members at JLL
A change of guard at Eurobuild
Infrastructure
Most of the land now acquired for CPK
CPK has already acquired over 2,000 ha under the Voluntary Acquisition Programme. This means that more than half of the land required for the CPK Airp ...
Tunnel to be built under Baltic
Grand station in little Brzeziny
Interior design
JLL redesigns its Warsaw branch
JLL has completed the modernisation of its offices in the Warsaw Spire building. The theme behind the design was ‘ReThink. ReUse. ReSpire’, emphasisin ...
Grainy effect for Viterra
Mercedes-Benz stylish Prague office
Investment & finance
Pbb lends EUR 40 mln to to Resolution Capital Management
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) has granted an investment loan facility of EUR 40 mln to an office fund to finance the acquisition of two neighbourin ...
Stable investment over H1
CEE growing vigorously
Land acquisitions
Panattoni enlarges its Swedish portfolio
Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg, Sweden. The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility.
CTP purchases land in Kragujevac
CTP secures major brownfield site
Material partner
Atlas Estates secures major loan from Bank Pekao
Atlas Estates is pleased to announce the successful securing of a significant loan facility from Bank Pekao SA, one of Poland’s leading financial inst ...
Brownfield rather than greenfield – a model for sustainable development at City Point Targówek
Nordbygg 2024: Many innovations and strong interest
Office & mixed-use development
Dionisie Lupu sold
Smartown Group has completed the sale of the historic Dionisie Lupu office building in Bucharest at a yield of 8.2 pct. The purchaser remains undisclo ...
Metron goes to school
Silverton signs up Corall Ingenieure
Property and Facility Management
Balmain takes on Adventum
The Balmain Group has taken over the management of a portfolio of four warehouses owned by Adventum International. The properties, totalling around 18 ...
Savills to manage for Yareal
Studio B under new management
Public buildings
Warsaw Uni building underway
The University of Warsaw has signed a contract with the general contractor for a project at ul. Bednarska 2/4. The new building will house the faculti ...
MHP awarded with ULI prize
Museum of Modern Art opens
Residential
PBSA market set to grow rapidly
Over the next two years, the number of beds in private student residence halls will increase by 70 pct, according to the latest analysis by Knight Fra ...
Zeitraum – Racławicka to open for next semester
Noli Studios Gdansk Old Town unveiled
Retail & leisure
Small towns lead retail expansion
Small towns in Poland have seen the majority of the new retail space come to the market. According to data from CBRE 599,500 sqm is currently under co ...
Luxury in decline
Global Vision does retail in Oradea
Technology
Velis has a new name
Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu, adopting the title of its property management product. The rebranding aims to both re ...
Symbiotic fit for HB Reavis and HqO
Saski Crescent has WiredScore Platinum
Warehouse & industrial
Procan grows in Prologis Park Błonie
Procan has extended the space it occupies in Prologis Park Błonie to almost 10,000 sqm. Under the new agreement, the company will take up a further 2, ...
