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ROMANIA Bucharest AFI Ploiești shopping centre owned by AFI Europe Romania has received LEED ‘Gold’ certification for existing buildings and is the only building in town with LEED certification.

Two tenants in Timpuri Noi Square

ROMANIA Vastint Romania has leased 1,000 sqm of office space to IT company Netcentric Eastern Europe and 900 sqm to electric al engineering company Phoenix Contact in the mixed-use development project Timpuri Noi Square from Bucharest.

Retail & leisure

Like Thai opens first restaurant

POLAND Gastromall group has opened its first Like Thai restaurant in the Madison shopping centre in Gdańsk.

Retail & leisure

Timo Sushi enters refurbished retail park

POLAND The modernisation of the restaurant area in the Matarnia retail park in Gdańśk has been completed and now has a Timo Sushi restaurant.

Hotel IT platforms consolidate

WORLD Hospitality management platform Knowcross has been integrated with Maestro, a property management software provider for the hospitality industry.

Most investment in retail

POLAND The volume of real estate transactions in Poland in H1 2017 was in excess of EUR 1.5 bln, representing a slight y-o-y rise. Acquisitions comprised as much as 59 pct of all the transactions.

Warsaw to spend PLN 100 mln on sport

POLAND The city of Warsaw has announced a tender for the modernisation of the Szczęśliwice sports centre, which includes a resurfacing of the 8,500 sqm dry ski slope and a refurbishment of the ski lifts.

Murapol takes stake in Football club

POLAND Murapol is to take a majority stake in RTS Widzew Association, the owner of the Widzew Łódź football team.

Clear drive to Świętokrzyskie

POLAND Budimex has been selected as the general contractor of S7 expressway from the limits of the Masovian Province to the road and railway interchange in Skarżysko-Kamienna.

KiK in Jantar

POLAND KiK opened its second store in Słupsk on July 20th.

Decathlon Easy grows bigger

POLAND Sports equipment retailer Decathlon has opened its first store in the Podkarpackie region – in the Plaza Rzeszów shopping centre in Rzeszów. The chain has leased 2,500 sqm in the mall where previously a Decathlon Easy store operated.

Grupa Pracuj to work in Astris

POLAND Communications and employment company Grupa Pracuj has leased space in the Astris office building in Kraków. Astris is the investor behind the newly-constructed building while Cushman & Wakefield is responsible for commercialization of the scheme.

Strong results for Moscow hotels

RUSSIA Over the first six months of the year 70 pct of the quality hotel rooms in Moscow were occupied according to data from JLL.

Join the success of Park Avenue

POLAND The Park Avenue project – a five-star office building on ul. Wspólna in Warsaw – will be ready to welcome its first tenants in a year from now, from the middle of 2018.

Piraeus lends for homes of impact

ROMANIA Impact Developer & Contractor has been granted a loan of RON 32.7 mln (app. EUR 7.1 mln) by Piraeus Bank Romania.

Azets in UBC 2

ROMANIA Iulius Company has leased 500 sqm of the United Business Center 2 (UBC 2) office building within the Openville Timişoara mixed-use project to Azets (previously known as Visma Services), the main accounting and payroll services provider in the Nordic countries.

PwC expands

POLAND PwC has decided to expand its Warsaw office in the International Business Center by 3,600 sqm and now occupies over 13,700 sqm of office space. Deka Immobilien, the owner of the building, was represented by Savills in the transaction.

Tryton nearly full

POLAND Three tenants of the Tryton Business House office building in Gdańsk have renewed and increased the sizes of their leases. A new tenat has also entered the building.

Electrifying rental in Bielany