News

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

POLAND MBS Logistics has renewed its lease of almost 2,800 sqm of warehouse space and app. 70 sqm of office space in the Logistic & Business Park in Bydgoszcz.

Warehouse & industrial

Another Thyssenkrupp factory in Hungary

HUNGARY Thyssenkrupp has held a ground breaking ceremony in Debrecen, where it is to build a spring and stabiliser factory on a 100,000 sqm site for the automotive industry.

EBRD to finance residential energy efficiency

Alex Hayes
journalist

ROMANIA The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has made a EUR 40 mln loan to Banca Transilvania for the purpose of supporting energy saving investments on the residential housing market.

Investment & finance

Profits shoot up for Ronson

POLAND Residential developer Ronson generated PLN 110 mln in revenue in Q1 – 163 pct higher than the same period of 2016, when it earned PLN 42 mln.

Retail & leisure

Grupa Warszawa in Koneser

POLAND Grupa Warszawa is to open a 580 sqm multi-level restaurant with a club and bar in the revitalised G building of Centrum Praskie Koneser in Warsaw’s Praga-Północ district.

Lawyers embrace new Ethos

POLAND Law firm Hogan Lovells is to move from ul. Nowogrodzka in Warsaw to its new offices on pl. Trzech Krzyży at the end of Q3 or early Q4.

Public buildings

Park Centralny to be built in Gdynia

POLAND A development concept has been drawn up to transform a square in the centre of Gdynia over the next three years into Park Centralny.

Slovakia’s tallest tower to stand on banks of Danube

SLOVAKIA J&T Real Estate has presented the preliminary design for a mixed-use complex with a 170m skyscraper that it intends to develop in Bratislava.

Retail & leisure

First purchase of FIZAN Propertum

POLAND The FIZAN Propertum fund, established by Upside Property and Profitum Wealth Management, has bought Terespol Retail Park as its first purchase.

Investment & finance

SES to build EUR 150 mln mall

Anna Pakulniewicz

SLOVENIA The development costs of a shopping centre in Ljubljana’s Šiška district are estimated at EUR 150 mln.

Hotels

Summer renovations for winter resorts

POLAND/SLOVAKIA Tatry Mountain Resorts (TMR) of Slovakia is planning to invest EUR 83 mln in new projects by the end of this year – mostly in Poland.

Panattoni and Marvipol given green light for Skawina

POLAND The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection [UOKiK] has approved the formation of a joint venture between Marvipol’s and Panattoni which is to build a warehouse and logistics park in Skawina near Kraków.

Retail & leisure

Saller builds Gryfino retail park

POLAND The Saller group has started the construction of the first stage of a retail park in Gryfino on ul. Łużycka, next to a Lidl store.

Construction

Work progresses on Vistula embankment

POLAND Skanska has completed the construction work of an embankment along the river Vistula in Warsaw between Świętokrzyski Bridge and ul. Karowa with work having also begun on the neighbouring section of the structure– from ul. Karowa to Śląsko-Dąbrowski Bridge.

Marquard in West Station

POLAND Marquard Media Polska is to move into the West Station office building on Al. Jerozolimskie in Warsaw’s Ochota district.

60s block makes way for Warsaw skyscraper

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) has started demolition work at ul. Świętokrzyska 36 in central Warsaw.

Cordia buys Praga Południe plot

POLAND Cordia Polska, a subsidiary of Hungarian real estate group Futureal, has purchased a site for the development of a residential building in Warsaw.

Residential

Hi-tech flats in Mokotów

POLAND Yuniversal Podlaski has started the construction of the Villa Almerico residential building at ul. Woronicza 34 in Warsaw’s Mokotów district.

Skanska to invest in serviced office space