News

POLAND Real estate consultancy Walter Herz has moved to the Prosta Tower office building.

Retail & leisure

KiK opened in Świętokrzyskie

24 April 2017

POLAND KiK has opened a new outlet in Kielce in the Pasaż Świętokrzyski shopping centre at ul. Massalskiego 3.

Residential

Premium construction begins in Wrocław

24 April 2017

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND Dom Development has begun construction work on stages four and five of the Premium estate in Warsaw’s Bemowo district. In the fourth stage, a nine-storey building is to be built with 248 apartments as well as 231 underground parking spaces.

Capgemini signs big Wrocław lease

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND French multinational IT consulting corporation Capgemini has leased more than 13,000 sqm in Wrocław’s Business Garden, developed by Vastint Poland.

Office & mixed-use development

Buma makes another DOT

POLAND Buma has started the construction work on another office building in the DOT Office complex on ul. Czerwone Maki/Podole in Kraków.

DTZ Echinox becomes Cushman & Wakefield Echinox

ROMANIA Cushman & Wakefield has signed an exclusive arrangement with DTZ Echinox for the latter to be its affiliate in Romania. The formal affiliate appointment follows the 2015 global merger of Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ. DTZ Echinox had been DTZ’s partner in the country since 2002.

Europa completes Warsaw Radisson Blu Centrum purchase

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

Europa Capital and WX Management Services have announced that they have completed the acquisition of the Radisson Blu Centrum Hotel in central Warsaw.

MMG to invest in regional cities

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Following the EUR 104.5 mln sale of Galeria Młociny in Warsaw, Master Management Group has announced that it has plans to invest in prime locations in Poland’s reginal cities.

Griffin listing and leasing

POLAND Griffin Premium RE has made its debut on the Warsaw trading floor.

Bouwfonds buys Apartamenty Novum II

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

POLAND Netherlands-based Bouwfonds Investment Management (Bouwfonds IM) has bought the three buildings in the second stage of the Apartamenty Novum residential development in Kraków for an undisclosed sum for its Bouwfonds European Residential Fund (BERF).

Changes at Galeria Glogovia

POLAND Sporting has leased a unit in the Galeria Glogovia shopping centre in Głogów and fitting out work has already begun on the space.

Retail & leisure

TxM expands in Romania and Poland

ROMANIA/POLAND The TxM chain of clothing and household goods stores has announced its Q1 sales results as well as the opening of three new outlets: in the Romanian towns of Mangalia and Giurgiu and in Sosnowiec in Poland.

Warehouse & industrial

Katowice SEZ driven by cars

POLAND is to gain nearly Almost 300 new jobs are to be created in the Katowice Special Economic Zone as a result of PLN 170 mln of investment in three projects that were given the go-ahead last March. Seven projects were started in Q1, thanks to which the special zone has accomplished almost a third of its annual target.

Construction

IDS-Bud to build Otwock seniors’ home

Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Origin Polska has selected IDS-Bud as the general contractor of its home for senior citizens in Otwock-Soplicowo, on Warsaw’s outskirts.

Residential

Erbud to build Apartamenty Novum II

POLAND Hines’s subsidiary Durham is developing the second stage of the Apartamenty Novum estate in Kraków.

Events

Blue buildings for a more understanding world

POLAND The Polish real estate sector took part in the global ‘Light It Up Blue’ campaign initiated by the Synapsis foundation to raise awareness of autism on April 2nd.

Retail & leisure

Go Sport goes online

POLAND Go Sport is aiming to operate 50 stores in shopping centres and retail parks by 2020. “In the next few years we are also planning to open smaller shops,” announced Sebastien Jedrej, the general director of Go Sport Polska.

Bulldozers roll onto Jewish centre site

20 April 2017