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Construction

Belgrade Plaza given green light

SERBIA Shopping centre developer Plaza Centers has received building permit for Belgrade Plaza, a 32,000 sqm gla shopping mall that is planned to be built on Visnjicka street in the old part of Belgrade.

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Office & mixed-use development

Satoria to build another Wola office building

POLAND Hotel chain owner and manager Satoria Group is to develop a new office building.

Residential

Spirala Czasu closer to construction launch

POLAND Construction work on Archicom’s latest residential project, Spirala Czasu, is to start at the end of September or early October.

Residential

LW Development begins Rezydencja Warszawska

POLAND LW Development has started the construction of a residential project in Piastów on Warsaw’s western outskirts.

Retail & leisure

PH Bielany to become Aleja Bielany

POLAND IKEA Centers Poland, the owner of Park Handlowy Bielany in Wrocław, has decided to change the name of the mall and retail park complex.

Retail & leisure

Galeria Morena 80 pct leased

POLAND With the signing of contracts with three new tenants – H&M, Smyk and Subway – Galeria Morena in Gdańsk is now 80 pct leased.

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Kyiv office supply drops below 2009 crisis levels

UKRAINE The level of completions on the Kyiv’s office market this year is expected to amount to 36,100 sqm and be twice as low as the crisis year of 2009 (84,100 sqm) and three times less than in 2014, according to a report by JLL.

Coffeeheaven ceases to exist

POLAND CHI Polska (Coffeeheaven International Poland), a Polish subsidiary of the Costa Coffee chain operator Whitbread, has changed its name to Costa Coffee Polska.

Office & mixed-use development

Aviva to relocate to Gdański Business Center

POLAND Insurance group Aviva has leased 12,500 sqm in the Gdański Business Centre II office complex, which is currently being developed by HB Reavis in Warsaw's Muranów district.

Office & mixed-use development

Skandia stays in Helion

POLAND Insurance company Skandia Życie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń has prolonged its 2,500 sqm lease agreement in the Helion office building in Warsaw’s Mokotów district for the next five years.

AFI buys 4 ha Braşov site

ROMANIA AFI Europe is acquiring a 4 ha plot in central Braşov, where it plans to develop a 45,000 sqm gla shopping centre and an 11,000 sqm office building.

Retail & leisure

Regions Group to build Dream Island theme park

RUSSIA Ostrov Mechty, or Dream Island, is the newly chosen name for a EUR 800 mln theme park to be built in Nagatinskaya Poyma south of Moscow.

Residential

Łowiccy building new Poznań estate

POLAND A new residential project, Rodzinne Ogrody, is being developed by Łowiccy Grupa Deweloperska on ul. Czereśniowa in Rosnowo-Komorniki near Poznań.

Retail & leisure

Szachownica set to open more stores

POLAND Around 10–15 new outlets of clothing chain Szachownica are to be opened by the end of 2015.

Interior design

PZU completes move in 87 days

POLAND Within three months the PZU group has prepared an area for over 1,700 workstations in the Konstruktorska Business Center (KBC) building in Warsaw, the new back office of the insurance company.

Construction

Perydot to be completed in a year’s time

POLAND The construction of the Perydot office building, which is being developed in Wrocław’s Krzyki district, is scheduled to finish in July 2016.

Office & mixed-use development

Piotr i Paweł to move to new Poznań HQ

POLAND PTB Nickel is to build the head office in Poznań for the operator of the Piotr i Paweł chain. Construction work for the office building on ul. Druskiennicka in the city’s Odolany district has already started.

Five parties interested in Hoteli WAM

POLAND Five companies have submitted preliminary offers for the purchase of shares in Hotele WAM from the Polish state.