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Office & mixed-use development

Coresi Business Park signs new tenant

ROMANIA IT services and solutions provider IQuest has leased 1,650 sqm of space in L1, the first building of the second phase of Coresi Business Park in Brașov.

CEE investment volumes hit EUR 7.37 bln

CEE REGION According to Cushman & Wakefield, investment activity in the major CEE markets, namely in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, has increased to EUR 3.16 bln in Q4 2015, surpassing the pre-crisis 2006 levels.

Rozália Park wins 9,000 sqm deal

HUNGARY Hungarian air conditioning equipment manufacturer Gimek has leased 9,380 sqm of space in the Rozália Park located in Biatorbágy.

Colliers acquires property management specialist

EUROPE/ NETHERLANDS Colliers International has acquired the Netherlands-based property and asset management company WPM Groep.

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.