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Building assessment according to tenants

Acciona explores options including sale

WORLD Spanish construction, energy and development group Acciona is seeking for opportunities to monetize its real estate business, Acciona Inmobiliaria, through an IPO or a strategic partnership.

EurobuildCEE

Bystre Misie wins the third Property People Soirees pub quiz

POLAND The Bystre Misie team has taken the first place in the pub quiz held during Eurobuild CEE’s third Property People Soiree at Restaurant 99 on Jana Pawła II in Warsaw on Tuesday evening.

Investment & finance

ECE shopping mall fund makes first purchase

EUROPE The ECE European Prime Shopping Centre Fund II has acquired the Stern-Center shopping mall in Lüdenscheid in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia. The property is the first shopping center in the fund’s portfolio.

Construction

Goleniów marina re-opened

POLAND The redeveloped and modernized Marina Lubczyna on the Dąbie Lake near Goleniów in Poland's West Pomeranian province has been officially launched.

Office & mixed-use development

Savills sells Mazowiecka project

POLAND Savills has been appointed by Hochtief Development Poland to sell a tenement house at ul. Mazowiecka 2/4 in Warsaw.

More than PLN 4 bln secured for affordable housing

POLAND The governmental financing programme for affordable housing is most likely to be launched this year. The Polish parliament has adopted a draft of the amendment to the act on some forms of residential construction support.

Office & mixed-use development

Globis Poznań to house SSC

POLAND A. Schulman, a global plastics supplier, has leased 1,100 sqm of office space in GTC’s Globis Poznań building located at. ul. Roosevelta 18 in Poznań.

Warehouse & industrial

Ground broken for Gliwice warehouse

POLAND Goodman has started the construction work on the first 22,500 sqm warehouse in its Gliwice Logistics Centre.

Office & mixed-use development

Large US tenant picks Alchemia

POLAND New York-listed financial services holding State Street has leased 14,000 sqm of office space in the 80,000 sqm Alchemia office complex which is being developed by Torus in Gdańsk.

Investment & finance

‘Emilka’ building put up for sale

POLAND Griffin Real Estate, the owner of the iconic Emilia building on ul. Emilii Plater in Warsaw, is putting the structure on sale. The investor has already started the tendering procedure, raising more questions about the building’s future demolition.

Green projects

Grupa Muszkieterów obtains green certificate

POLAND The new headquarters of the Intermarché and Bricomarché retail chains in Swadzim near Poznań has obtained Green Office certificate awarded by the Environmental Partnership Foundation.

Panattoni signs new tenant

POLAND Herbal medicines producer and distributor Phytopharm Klęka has signed a lease deal for warehousing and office space in Panattoni Park Poznań III.

Construction

S-69 gets longer

POLAND The final 9.41 km stage of the 15.56 km Bielsko-Biała to Żywiec section of the S-69 expressway has been put into operation last week.

Retail & leisure

Intersport to open in Zielone Arkady

POLAND Sportswear and sports equipment retailer Intersport is to open a new store in Poland. It will be located in the Zielone Arkady shopping centre in Bydgoszcz.

Retail & leisure

CCC to stay in Silesia City Center

POLAND Footwear retailer CCC has renewed and expanded its lease contract in the Silesia City Center shopping mall in Katowice, whose co-owner and manager is ECE Projektmanagement Polska.

Investment & finance

3,200 ha land sale transaction signed

POLAND Agro Brusno has sold a total of 3,200 ha of agricultural land plots spread across several boroughs around Połczyn-Zdrój in Poland’s West Pomeranian province to an unnamed buyer.

Jan Kulczyk dies at 65

POLAND Jan Kulczyk, Poland's wealthiest man and the founder of such companies as Kulczyk Holding and Kulczyk Investments, has passed away at the age of 65.

Technology

Romanian malls get familiar with beacons

ROMANIA Bucharest’s AFI Palace Cotroceni shopping mall is implementing a network of beacons in order to allow its tenants to better reach their clients.

MLP chooses contractor for Lublin hall

POLAND Warehouse developer MLP Group has appointed FB Antczak as the general contractor for a 5,650 sqm hall which is to be built within the MLP Lublin logistic park.