News
Eurobuild Awards
EA: Renowned renewed
POLAND The Eurobuild Awards in Architecture were handed out during the second Eurobuild Architecture Festival on September 20th. There were five categories in the competition. Three projects made it to the grand final of the Revitalisation of the Year Award.
Eurobuild Awards
EA: The best interior chosen
POLAND The Eurobuild Awards for Architecture were handed out during the second Eurobuild Architecture Festival on September 20th. There were five categories in the competition. Three projects reached the grand finals for The Workplace Solution of the Year award.
Polna Park invites to Toruń
POLAND The Polna Park shopping arcade opened on September 16th in Toruń.
Retail park to open in Kęty
POLAND A retail park is to be opened on ul. Żwirki i Wigury in Kęty, Małopolska Province on October 5th.
Alior expands on ul. Łopuszańska
POLAND Alior Bank has prolonged its lease and extended its Warsaw offices in the Łopuszańska Business Park complex in Warsaw’s Włochy district.
LC Corp to be sold?
POLAND Open Finance, Leszek Czarnecki, LC Corp, Getin Noble Bank and Open Life TU Życie are planning to sell a 51.17 pct stake in LC Corp for a minimum price of PLN 2.05 per share.
Good times for Fashion House Bucharest
ROMANIA Turnover went up by 12 pct in Fashion House Bucharest in H1 2017. The conversion rate (percent of visitors who buy) and average transaction value also bith increased by 1 ppct to 5 pct and 6 pct respectively.
Green projects
Varso with 'Gold' Well
POLAND The Varso complex, which is under development by HB Reavis has been awarded, Well Core & Shell precertification with a rating of ‘Gold’ and is the first development in Europe to receive such certification.
Investment & finance
Arena goes to NEPI Rockcastle
HUNGARY NEPI Rockcastle has acquired the Arena Plaza Shopping centre in Budapest for an aggregate purchase price of EUR 275mln.
Spar opens in three formats
POLAND The Spar chain has opened three stores in Wodzisław Śląski, Mucharz and Łódź.
Infrastructure
EU to pay PLN 5 bln for Polish roads
POLAND On September 11th 2017 a contract was signed to secure EU funding for the construction of 180 km of new roads with the money to come from the Infrastructure and Environment Programme.
Retail & leisure
Intermarché debuts in Warsaw
POLAND Intermarché has opened its first Warsaw store in the city’s Ursynów district.
Eurobuild Awards
EA: The best office buildings chosen
POLAND The Eurobuild Awards in Architecture were handed out during the second Eurobuild Architecture Festival on September 20th. There were five categories in the competition. In the first – the Office Building of the Year – the winner was chosen from five projects, which had reached the grand finals.
Office & mixed-use development
Travel into (Atrium) Garden
POLAND Weco Travel, a company specialising in corporate travel, has moved into the Atrium Garden office building on al. Jana Pawła II in Warsaw. The company is to occupy nearly 1,000 sqm of office space on the seventh floor of the development.
West Link topped off
POLAND Echo Investment has finished the structural work of the West Link office building which is being developed on ul. Na Ostatnim Groszu in Wrocław’s Fabryczna district.
Hotels
Korean Dragon awaits tourists
WORLD The AccorHotels Group is preparing to open its biggest hotel complex in the world in South Korea.
Construction
Topping off by the river
POLAND The topping off ceremony of Stage I of Deo Plaza has been held on ul Chmielna on Spichrzów island in Gdańsk with a number of representatives of the local authorities in attendance.
Strong performance by Echo
POLAND Echo Investment has reported a consolidated net profit of PLN 187 mln for H1 2017 which compares to PLN 302 mln last year.
Interior design
Philips lights up Nike
POLAND Philips has used state-of-the-art lighting in the Nike ForPro store on ul. Klimczaka in Warsaw.
Retail & leisure
Atut Ruczaj gets a KiK
POLAND KiK is to open a 600 sqm discount store in the Atut Ruczaj centre, which is under construction on ul. Bunscha in Kraków.
Categories
Architecture and urban planning
Praga to tower up over Warsaw
High-rise developments may be developed near the National Stadium metro station. The city's spatial policy clearly aims to break down the division bet ...
ULI releases New Urban Poland report
Plans created for Airport City around CPK
Construction
Dekpol Budownictwo strengthens its position in the public-sector construction market
Public-sector construction has become one of the fastest-growing areas of Dekpol Budownictwo’s business. Over the past two years, the company has sign ...
Topping-out ceremony held at new primary school in Biedrusko
Mirbud wins PLN 168 mln contract for Warsaw sports hall
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
Data centres
Data centres could supply more heat to Polish cities
Poland’s growing data centre market could create a significant new source of waste heat for heating networks. According to analysis by the Polish Data ...
AI and cloud demand drives growth in European data centre market
Hillwood moves planned data centre further from homes
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
A green office is more than a certificate
More than 97 pct of newly developed office space in Poland is environmentally certified. Certification has therefore become standard, while the buildi ...
Wrocław Fashion Outlet cuts energy usage by 14 pct
PAD RES to construct three solar farms
Eurobuild Awards
New venue and date for the Eurobuild Awards Gala!
The 16th Eurobuild Awards Gala is now on the horizon! And there has been a CHANGE OF DATE AND LOCATION. The Gala will now take place on December 8th, ...
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Eurobuild FM
The power of community
We spoke with Zdena Noack, managing director of Zeitraum Student Housing, during the opening of Zeitraum Racławicka in Kraków.
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 3
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 2
EurobuildCEE
The October and Expo Real edition of Eurobuild is now out!
In this issue, hot off the press in time for Expo Real in Munich, the cover story is an interview with Ugo Giordano and Katarzyna Rzetecka, who are le ...
The June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
This sporting real estate life
Events
Get yourself connected with us at Expo Real!
Expo Real kicks off on Monday in Munich, and Eurobuild CEE is the media sponsor for one of the top discussions on the first day: ‘High Speed Connectiv ...
JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament on August 6th
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
Exclusive
Leading the renaissance of local investors
One of the more interesting Polish property investors to emerge on the local scene in recent years is Syrena Real Estate. This year, it added the Rena ...
The man from NASA
Strengthening our presence – Wolfgang Molnar of Erste Group Bank
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
Accor to open Tribe hotel at Kraków Airport
Accor has signed a franchise agreement for the Tribe Kraków Airport hotel. Located next to the airport terminal, the 170-room property is scheduled to ...
Bucharest Hotel Market Set for Growth
Bob W to open fifth Tallinn property at Krulli Quarter
Human resources
Ghelamco reshuffles management team in Poland
Agnieszka Ciupak has been appointed managing director of Ghelamco in Poland. She joins Przemysław Dąbrowski, Jakub Kutzmann and Krzysztof Gozdecki as ...
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Change at the top for ULI Europe
Infrastructure
Port Polska and Kielce plan cargo terminal
Port Polska and the City of Kielce have signed a letter of intent covering plans for a cargo terminal in Obice, near Kielce. The centre would handle b ...
New railway station planned for Łapy
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
Interior design
ING Hubs Poland opens new HQ in The Form
ING Hubs Poland is officially moving into its new headquarters in The Form office building in Warsaw’s Wola business district. The more than 6,000 sqm ...
New food hall in Poznań
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
Investment & finance
Commercial property investment hits EUR 680 mln
Romania’s commercial real estate investment market recorded EUR 679.9 mln in transactions involving office buildings, retail properties, logistics ass ...
WING and Griffin seek to take Echo Investment private
DWS to acquire Peakside Capital Advisors
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
Brownfield rather than greenfield – a model for sustainable development at City Point Targówek
Contemporary cities are grappling with the challenge of fostering dynamic growth while alleviating environmental pressures. Traditional infrastructure ...
Nordbygg 2024: Many innovations and strong interest
Excellent Fern at Off Piotrkowska
Office & mixed-use development
Knight Frank to lease VINCI Office Center in Kraków
Knight Frank has been appointed exclusive leasing agent for VINCI Office Center at 100 Opolska Street in Kraków. The building, owned by Sharow Capital ...
Bucharest office demand picks up as companies rethink their workplace needs
eService leases 7,500 sqm in Drucianka Campus
Property and Facility Management
ISS takes over technical management of Axis in Kraków
ISS has taken over the technical facility management of Axis, an office building in Kraków owned by French fund Corum XL. The company is providing tec ...
Savills takes on TFI PZU retail portfolio
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
Public buildings
Prague 14 begins construction of primary school in Jahodnice
Prague 14 has begun construction of a new primary school in Jahodnice. The school, at U Hostavického potoka Street, will accommodate 540 pupils, with ...
Construction begins on emergency care unit at Prague’s Thomayer University Hospital
Dekpol to redevelop the Poznań Palm House
Residential
Warsaw’s Kamionek district attracts new residential investment
Kamionek, in Warsaw’s Praga-Południe district, is transforming from an industrial area into a modern urban neighbourhood. Infrastructure upgrades, cul ...
YIT Czechia to build 73 apartments in Prague’s Kamýk district
Górskiego rated Very Good
Retail & leisure
Aurum Optics opens its 27th store in Poland at Manufaktura
Aurum Optics has opened its 27th store in Poland at Manufaktura shopping and leisure centre in Łódź. The new outlet combines eyewear from leading inte ...
Xtreme Fitness Gyms Opens First Club in the Czech Republic
Bricomarché opens new store in Włoszczowa
Technology
Skanska implements digital access control system at Studio A
Skanska has implemented a digital access control system at Studio A, an office building in Warsaw. The solution uses the company’s proprietary StudioA ...
Logicor brings smart metering to Polish portfolio
Singu takes over QRmaint
Warehouse & industrial
Zalando rolls out AI-powered returns
Sereact, Zalando and CEVA Logistics have introduced AI-powered robots to process returns at logistics centres in Świebodzin, Poland, and Greven, Germa ...
