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IKEA trials smaller, ecommerce-enabled store format

schedule 24 June 2015
Agata Kłapeć

UNITED KINGDOM Swedish furniture retailer IKEA is testing a new smaller store concept, called "Order and Collection point", across selected British local markets in an effort to expand the reach of its online and physical stores.

Retail & leisure

Bolshevik turns into Cosmopolite

schedule 24 June 2015
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

UKRAINE Bolshevik, one of the largest shopping centres in Kyiv, has changed its name to Cosmopolite. According to the Ukrainian Retail Association, the goal was to distance itself from communist symbolism. The name-change took place on June 21st.

Plaza disposes of yet another Romanian plot

schedule 24 June 2015
Agata Kłapeć

ROMANIA Israeli-financed shopping centre developer Plaza Centers is selling off a 46,500 sqm development site in Iasi to an undisclosed buyer for EUR 7.3 mln.

Bilfinger sheds two more divisions

schedule 24 June 2015
Agata Kłapeć

EUROPE German real estate, engineering and construction company Bilfinger has sold its infrastructure division to the Austrian construction company Porr for app. EUR 20 mln net. Bilfinger also plans on starting a structured selling process for its loss-making power division by the end of this year.

Green projects

Spektrum Tower certified

schedule 24 June 2015
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Warsaw’s Spektrum Tower has obtained BREEAM certification with ‘Very Good’ rating.

Office & mixed-use development

CA Immo lets 5,000 sqm in Kraków

schedule 23 June 2015
Agata Kłapeć

POLAND Three IT companies have leased a total of app. 5,000 sqm of office space in Kraków's Avia office building, which is now 95-pct leased.

Office & mixed-use development

Amazon takes up Prague offices

schedule 23 June 2015
Agata Kłapeć

CZECH REPUBLIC Amazon is opening ​​a 5,800 sqm office in the 16,200 sqm Blox office building in Prague 6. The Seattle-based online merchant will have an option to expand the lease in the future.

Office & mixed-use development

Warsaw’s Atrium 2 reaches halfway point

schedule 23 June 2015
Eurobuild CEE

POLAND The 15-storey Atrium 2 office building that is currently being developed on ul. Pereca in Warsaw by Skanska Property Poland has just reached the eighth floor.

Technology

‘Commute and collect’ locations on the rise

schedule 23 June 2015
Agata Kłapeć

UNITED KINGDOM British rail infrastructure operator Network Rail, which runs a network of 34 manned parcel collection and return points for passengers at its mainline stations, called Doddle, is joining forces with DPD, which plots the launch of its own and nationwide parcel shop network.

Vitra looking for new offices

schedule 23 June 2015
Nathan North
deputy editor

CZECH REPUBLIC JLL´s Prague office has been instructed to represent furniture producer Vitra in its search for new representative premises.

Retail & leisure

Next Monnari in Bielsko-Biała

schedule 23 June 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Monnari has opened its latest store in Bielsko-Biała.

Unibep begins final stage of Poznań estate

schedule 23 June 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Unibep has be chosen as the general contractor for the final stage of a residential project on ul. Czarnieckiego in Poznań.

Residential

Second stage of Nowe Ogrody in progress

schedule 23 June 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Proxin Ogrody has started the second construction stage of the Nowe Ogrody residential development on ul. Meissnera in Poznań.

MoneyGram needs more people

schedule 23 June 2015
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND MoneyGram, which opened its global business centre in the Konstruktorska Business Center in Warsaw owned by HB Reavis last year, is planning to expand its workforce in the Warsaw centre by another 15 pct.

Interior design

Cinema3D looks to outer space

schedule 23 June 2015
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND Cinema3D has decided to introduce a new outer space-inspired interior design to its chain of multiplexes.

Human resources

BNP Paribas RE enters Slovakia

schedule 23 June 2015
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

CEE REGION BNP Paribas Real Estate has expanded its operations to Slovakia.

Warehouse & industrial

Segro completes speculative space in Ożarów

schedule 23 June 2015
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Segro has obtained an occupancy permit for its new 9,300 sqm warehouse in Segro Business Park Warsaw in Ożarów.

Investment & finance

GE sells Futurum Kolín to CPI for EUR 23 mln

schedule 23 June 2015
Nathan North
deputy editor

CZECH REPUBLIC CPI Property Group has acquired the Futurum shopping centre in Kolín.

Construction

Dekpol to work in Gdańsk

schedule 23 June 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Construction company Dekpol has become the general contractor for the modernisation and extension of Gdańsk’s Carrefour Morena shopping centre.

Office & mixed-use development

Coresi Business Park expands, lures tenant

schedule 19 June 2015
Eurobuild CEE

ROMANIA Construction work has started on the second 18,000 sqm two-building stage of the Coresi Business Park office project in Brasov. The project’s developer, Ascenta Management, has also signed the first lease agreement for the first of the two buildings, which is planned to be delivered in Q2 2016.

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