News

Agata Kłapeć

POLAND Skanska Property Poland is seeking for buyers for four of its Polish office buildings with a total of 62,000 sqm gla.

Three new tenants move into Chmielna 25

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND Three new companies has signed leases for office space in Warsaw’s Chmielna office and retail building.

Investment & finance

TREI sells Penny Market centre

CZECH REPUBLIC TREI Real Estate Czech Republic has signed an agreement for the sale of the Penny Market distribution centre in Radonice (Prague-East) to a company controlled by ZFP Investments, acting on behalf of the ZFP realitní fond.

Tarasy Zamkowe opens in Lublin

POLAND The Tarasy Zamkowe shopping centre has today been officially opened in central Lublin.

Three new faces in Gdański Business Center I

POLAND Three new tenants have leased more than 2,000 sqm of space in the Gdański Business Center I building in Warsaw.

130m office tower to be built in Warsaw

POLAND Construction work on the 130-meter Mennica Legacy Tower located at the junction of ul. Prosta and ul. Żelazna in Warsaw is set to start at the turn of 2016. The project will be developed by a company co-founded by the Polish Mint (Mennica Polska S.A.) and Golub GetHouse.

Technology

Skanska to improve indoor mobile coverage

WORLD Development and construction company Skanska is set to test and build indoor mobile infrastructure for both 3G and LTE, exploring different use cases, from consumer mobile voice and data to new Internet of Things applications, across different types of buildings.

Construction

Work on Mława ‘systemic’ railway station begins

POLAND Construction work has started on a system railway station in Mława. The project’s general contractor, Warmińskie Przedsiębiorstwo Budowlane, entered the building site.

Warehouse & industrial

Rhenus takes up more Szczecin warehousing space

POLAND Logistics company Rhenus has enlarged its app. 14,000 sqm Prologis Park Szczecin lease by additional 7,200 sqm of space.

Hotels

Best Western Villa Aqua Hotel relaunched

Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND After three months of the modernization work on Best Western Villa Aqua Hotel in Sopot, the hotel is now operational. The work involved the refurbishment of the hotel restaurant and rooms as well as altering the conference room.

Swiss Re leases 14,200 sqm in Twin City

SLOVAKIA The first major tenant has been secured for the Twin City office complex in Bratislava, which is currently being developed by HB Reavis.

Third Meteor comes into view

CZECH REPUBLIC Phase ‘C’ of the Meteor Centre Office Park in Prague’s Karlín district has been granted an occupancy permit, whcih is due to open in the first quarter.

Galeria Neptun filling up

POLAND New tenants have taken up more than 1,200 sqm the Galeria Neptun shopping centre development in Starogard Gdański.

Tesco closes down more CEE stores

Agata Kłapeć

CEE REGION British grocer Tesco is shutting down six Polish stores located in Bydgoszcz, Kudowa-Zdrój, Legionowo, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Gniew and Nowe as the troubled retailer continues to cut costs in Europe.

Good year for hotel investors in Europe

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

EUROPE In 2014, hotel investment volumes across Europe and the Middle East have increased 30 pct compared to 2013, CBRE reports.

Investment & finance

Trinfico completes Airportcity purchase

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA A subsidiary of the Trinfico Investment Group-managed private Russian pension fund Blagosostoyanie has completed the EUR 70 mln acquisition of two buildings located within the Airportcity business centre in St Petersburg.

BPO tenants drive office demand on local markets

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND In 2014, international business services centers leased 268,000 sqm of space on the major Polish markets outside Warsaw, which accounted for more than 60 pct of total demand for office space on the biggest regional markets in the country, says JLL.

Hotels

New hotels in Mercure portfolio

POLAND By the end of H1 2015, two TriCity hotels will join the Mercure group.

Warehouse & industrial

Dedra to stay in Pruszków logistics park

POLAND Machine tool manufacturer Dedra Exim has renewed its app. 10,000 sqm lease agreement in the MLP Pruszków I logistic park near Warsaw.