News

POLAND The General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways [GDDKiA] has signed appointed three contractors to design and build the S7 road (also known as Puławska Bis) from the airport interchange on the southern Warsaw ring-road to Grójec.

BNP Paribas takes on Diamante Plaza

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Spanish real estate company Aldesa has appointed BNP Paribas Real Estated Poland to recommercialise the Diamante Plaza office building in Kraków’s Zabłocie district.

Construction

Budimex builds roads for Brzozowo

POLAND Budimex has won the tender to construct the Brzozowo ring-road including the upgrade of national road no. 3 from Brzozowo to Rzęśnica in West Pomerania to an expressway.

Virtual world in Forum Lviv

Anna Pakulniewicz

UKRAINE Forum Lviv has leased 43 sqm to the 360 VR entertainment centre.

Toolbox working on Mallcomm

Anna Pakulniewicz

EUROPE Toolbox Group is working with Unibail-Rodamco on the Mallcomm communication and operations platform.

Residential

Luxury beach apartments by Dekpol

POLAND Verano Residence on ul. Mestwina in Jurata on the Hel peninusla is the latest project by Dekpol.

Little free warehouse space

POLAND According to the JLL magazyny.pl portal, the warehouse vacancy rate in Q2 2017 fell by 0.6 pp to an average 5.8 pct in Poland.

Juvenes designs for PHN

POLAND The Juvenes – Projekt & Pracownia Obsługi Inwestorów Pro-Invest consortium has been chosen to design an office building to be developed near the Intraco tower in Warsaw.

Green projects

Parki Warszawy certified

POLAND A BREEAM ‘Gold’ certificate has been granted for the design of the Murapol Parki Warszawy estate on ul. Prymasa Tysiąclecia in Warsaw’s Wola district.

Silesia Star now full

POLAND The Silesia Star office and service complex in Katowice, which is owned by LC Corp, is now 95 pct leased after two new tenants signed contracts.

Residential

Linea expanding Leśna Polana

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Linea, which is developing the Leśna Polana estate in Dopiewiec near Poznań, is to develop its Villa multi-family buildings as part of the project.

Investment & finance

Malaysian giant sets sights on Katowicka

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Kwasa Europe, which is owned by Malaysian pension fund Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia (EPF), is planning to acquire the Galeria Katowicka shopping centre.

Residential

Living in Komfort by the bay

POLAND The construction of the Zatoka Komfortu apartment building on ul. Mickiewicza by the Pucka Bay in Jastarnia has been completed.

Permit for Penta

POLAND D48 in Warsaw, the first office project by Penta Investments in Poland, has obtained an occupancy permit two months before the space is handed over to its tenants.

Foundation moves to West Station

POLAND The Foundation for the Development of the Educational System (Fundacja Rozwoju Systemu Edukacji - FRSE) has moved to its new head office in the West Station I office building in Warsaw, which is owned by HB Reavis.

Four floors for one tenant

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND An undisclosed claims management company is to move its Warsaw headquarters to Centrum Marszałkowska (formerly known as Sezam).

New bigger Campus Warsaw

POLAND Campus Warsaw, Google’s start-up incubator, has moved to a new building in the Centrum Praskie Koneser complex on ul. Ząbkowska in Warsaw, where it currently occupies 2,500 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Arvato to serve LPP in Stryków

POLAND Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato Poland, has leased 30,400 sqm of warehouse space at Segro Logistics Park Stryków.

MLP happy with H1 results

POLAND In H1 2017, MLP Group generated revenues of PLN 47.5 mln, up 9.5 pct y-o-y. EBIT was PLN 21 mln coming in at a similar level as last year despite losses from property revaluations.

Hotel developers seeking alternatives