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Hotels

Orbis Group buys two Budapest hotels

HUNGARY Polish hotel group Orbis and its Hungarian subsidiary, Accor-Pannonia Hotels, have signed a final agreement on the purchase of two hotels in Budapest for EUR 27.5 mln.

Immofinanz CFO quits prematurely

EUROPE Birgit Noggler, Immofinanz’s chief financial officer, is stepping down 18 months before her term expired.

Office & mixed-use development

Polskie Media sticks to Batory

POLAND Polskie Media, the publisher of the Wprost and Do Rzeczy weekly magazines, has extended its lease agreement for office space in Warsaw’s Batory Office Building II on Al. Jerozolimskie in Warsaw’s Włochy district.

Hotels

Vienna International Hotels undergoes transformation

EUROPE Austrian hotel group Vienna International Hotels & Resorts has been renamed to Vienna House. The new umbrella brand Vienna House brings together the group’s four separate hotel lines.

FBSerwis wins PLN 48 mln contract

POLAND FBSerwis signed a six-year contract with the Łódź branch of the General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways on providing maintenance services for the S8 expressway at the Wieluń-Łask interchanges section.

Eurobuild Awards

The wheels are now moving on the Eurobuild Awards 2016!

Hotels

New thermal springs in Warmia

POLAND Termy Warmińskie has been opened in Lidzbark Warmiński.

Interior design

Loftiest bar in Warsaw refurbished

POLAND The Panorama Sky Bar at the top of the Warsaw Marriott Hotel has been officially re-opened after refurbishment.

Hotels

Bigger conference section for Katowice Best Western

POLAND A new conference and banquet section is to be opened at the Best Western Premier Hotel Forum Katowice in May.

Kraków among top thirty cities for hotels

POLAND Kraków has come 22nd in a global ranking of cities with the best-assessed hotel base in the world, prepared by the Trivago hotel browser.

Architecture and urban planning

Contract signed for Museum of Polish History

POLAND The contract to design of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw has been signed.

Warehouse & industrial

Warehouses on a roll, says Colliers

POLAND Last year turned out to be a record one in terms of the demand on the warehouse market, while further growth in smaller logistics centres is expected this year – according to research by Colliers International.

TIM to be extended and open to others

POLAND Centrum Logistyczne TIM in Siechnice near Wrocław will have an area of 41,100 sqm after the completion of extension work in the summer, the launch of which ‘Eurobuild CEE’ wrote about in December 2015.

Green projects

Another BREEAM for Galeria Gniezno

POLAND Galeria Gniezno has obtained BREEAM In-Use certification for the second time.

Architecture and urban planning

Spaniards and Vistula artefacts to transform Powiśle?

POLAND The design by three young Spanish architects has won the competition for the development of Skwer kpt. Stanisława Skibniewskiego ‘Cupryny’ in Warsaw’s Powiśle district.

Architecture and urban planning

Contract signed for Museum of Polish History

POLAND The contract to design of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw was signed last Friday.

Warehouse & industrial

Warehouses on a roll, says Colliers

POLAND Last year turned out to be a record one in terms of the demand on the warehouse market, while further growth in smaller logistics centres is expected this year – according to research by Colliers International.

TIM to be extended and open to others

POLAND Centrum Logistyczne TIM in Siechnice near Wrocław will have an area of 41,100 sqm after the completion of extension work in the summer, the launch of which ‘Eurobuild CEE’ wrote about in December 2015.

Hotels

Top 25 Polish hotels named

POLAND Online travel portal Trip Advisor has published the list of the world’s best hotels based on their user reviews.

Green projects

Vastint Romanian projects green-certified

ROMANIA Vastint has obtained LEED Platinum design stage pre-certification for each of the three buildings that will form the planned Business Garden Bucharest office complex.