Office &amp; mixed-use development

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

POLAND Skanska has started the construction work for its Nowy Rynek office project in central Poznań.

Golden year for Wrocław

POLAND 2016 was a record year for new supply on the Wrocław office market – and the new space also had no problem finding tenants, accroding to research by Echo Investment.

NTT Data in Unirii View

ROMANIA Software services provider NTT Data Romania has leased 4,000 sqm in the Unirii View office project, an 18-storey tower with a height of 73m currently under construction in central Bucharest.

Three new tenants for Plac Małachowskiego

POLAND German real estate bank Berlin Hyp, has signed a lease agreement for 207 sqm of office space in the revitalised section of the Plac Małachowskiego office building in Warsaw.

Bucharest’s largest office transaction now off

ROMANIA AFI Europe and Dedeman have agreed to cancel the sale transaction of the office buildings AFI Park 1-3.

More space for IT Kontrakt

04 August 2017

POLAND IT company IT Kontrakt will add 125 sqm to its offices on the fourth and fifth storeys in Sky Tower in Wrocław.

Turner and Townsend to manage V

04 August 2017

POLAND Turner & Townsend Poland has been appointed as the project manager for the V. Offices project, an office building being built by AFI Europe in the centre of Kraków.

Across the globe, an unprecedented office building boom is underway with over 65 mln sqm of space under construction that will deliver between now and the end of 2019, Cushman & Wakefield’s Global Office Forecast reports. That’s the equivalent of recreating five cities worth of office inventory – Washington, DC, Dallas, London, Singapore and Shanghai – over the next three years.

Gavdi grows in Katowice

02 August 2017

POLAND HR consultancy Gavdi Polska is to move into the GPP Business Park in Katowice with Knight Frank having represented the tenant during the negotiations.

Myhive comes to Mokotów

02 August 2017

POLAND Immofinanz has opened Myhive IO-1 in Warsaw’s Mokotów district, which is the sixth office building of the Myhive brand in Poland.

Koneser almost 90 pct leased

02 August 2017

POLAND Four tenants have signed leases for a total area of over 3,400 sqm in Praskie Centrum Koneser in Warsaw and as a result the office section is now over 86 pct pre-leased.

Two tenants in Timpuri Noi Square

01 August 2017

ROMANIA Vastint Romania has leased 1,000 sqm of office space to IT company Netcentric Eastern Europe and 900 sqm to electric al engineering company Phoenix Contact in the mixed-use development project Timpuri Noi Square from Bucharest.

Grupa Pracuj to work in Astris

01 August 2017

POLAND Communications and employment company Grupa Pracuj has leased space in the Astris office building in Kraków. Astris is the investor behind the newly-constructed building while Cushman & Wakefield is responsible for commercialization of the scheme.

Azets in UBC 2

ROMANIA Iulius Company has leased 500 sqm of the United Business Center 2 (UBC 2) office building within the Openville Timişoara mixed-use project to Azets (previously known as Visma Services), the main accounting and payroll services provider in the Nordic countries.

PwC expands

POLAND PwC has decided to expand its Warsaw office in the International Business Center by 3,600 sqm and now occupies over 13,700 sqm of office space. Deka Immobilien, the owner of the building, was represented by Savills in the transaction.

Tryton nearly full

POLAND Three tenants of the Tryton Business House office building in Gdańsk have renewed and increased the sizes of their leases. A new tenat has also entered the building.

Łużycka now full

POLAND Allcon Investment has completed the recommercialisation of the Łużycka Office Park complex in Gdynia. The last few vacant office areas have been occupied. All the units will be handed over at the end of August.

Pre-leases dominate regions

28 July 2017

POLAND According to date of the JLL consulting company pre-lease contracts constituted 38 pct of the total demand for office space in Poland in 2016 whereas in 2017 the figure was 29 pct.

Electric car charging on ul. Bobrowiecka

28 July 2017

POLAND Spectra Development, the developer behind an office building at ul. Bobrowiecka 8 in Warsaw’s Dolny Mokotów district, has signed a 1,000 sqm office space lease with Engie, a utility and technology company that supplies heat, electricity and gas.

Immochan takes former tractor factory

28 July 2017