Office &amp; mixed-use development

EUROPE Almost all key office markets in Europe are expected to show falling vacancy rates over the next five years, while the rents are expected to go up, according to a recent report by CBRE.

KiK moves Wrocław offices

26 August 2015

POLAND Fashion retail chain KiK has changed the address of its headquarters. It is now located in an office building in Legnica, where the company occupies 456 sqm of space.

Codewise takes more space in Browar

26 June 2015

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Almost half of the area in the new Browar Lubicz Office building, which is under construction in Kraków, has been leased.

300m tower planned for Warsaw

25 August 2015

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Slovak developer HB Reavis is planning to construct a 310m office tower in central Warsaw.

Green Hall 2 to open by the end of 2016

26 August 2015

LITHUANIA Green Hall 2, a modern Class A business building in Vilnius, will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2016.

H&M enters Plac Unii in a new role

25 August 2015

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Swedish fashion retailer H&M is to open an international customer service centre in Warsaw. It has leased 3,000 sqm of office space in the Plac Unii office and retail complex to move in there by the end of the year.

Havas stays in New City

25 August 2015

POLAND Polish office of the Havas Media Group marketing and communications agency has renewed its 1,500 sqm lease in the New City office complex in Warsaw’s Mokotów district.

Swatch chooses Moscow centre

21 August 2015

RUSSIA Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch Group has leased 2,700 sqm of office space on the eighth floor of the Delta Plaza business centre in Moscow.

Archer shoots into business garden

30 June 2015

POLAND Archer Daniels Midland has signed a 1,300 sqm lease with an expansion option for space in the Business Garden Poznań office complex.

Market grows – but vacancy and spec projects too

19 August 2015

POLAND Around 1.2 mln sqm of modern office space is currently under construction in Poland, according to Colliers International’s summary of the office market for the first half of 2015.

Agent signs at Warsaw Spire

20 August 2015

Agata Kłapeć

POLAND JLL is set to take up a total of 8,000 sqm of space in the 100,000 sqm Spire office complex, which is currently being developed by Ghelamco in central Warsaw, and accommodate all of its Warsaw business units there.

Renaissance Plaza still Orange

17 August 2015

POLAND Warsaw-based asset manager MF Capital has re-leased the entire Renaissance Plaza office building

Building-block tower in the heart of Warsaw

13 August 2015

POLAND A skyscraper that looks as though it is made of gigantic building blocks, along with multi-level public areas with lavish greenery and fountains, is what can be seen on the latest visualistaions of the Centralna Park mixed-use complex in Warsaw, which is being developed by Xcity Investment.

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

Tensor catches fish producer

13 August 2015

POLAND Tinned and preserved fish producer Thai Union Poland has leased 250 sqm of office space in the Tensor ‘X’ building in Gdynia.

UPS takes up Łódź offices

12 August 2015

Agata Kłapeć

POLAND Logistics giant UPS has leased 2,000 sqm of office space in GTC’s University Business Park building located at ul. Wólczańska 178 in Łódź. The tenant will run its new 130-people global shared services centre in the property.

Vertingis becomes Business Centre One after sale

11 August 2015

LITHUANIA A business centre at Ukmergės G. 322 in Vilnius has been sold.

New office supply shrinks by 60 pct

11 August 2015

RUSSIA Around 133,000 sqm of high quality office space was delivered to the Russian office market in Q2 2015, according to research by JLL Russia & CIS. In the first half of the year the amount of new office supply was estimated at 224,000 sqm – an almost 60 pct y-o-y reduction.

UNICEF to open SSC in Budapest

10 August 2015

Eurobuild CEE

HUNGARY Hungarian government has leased 6,100 sqm of office space in the Central Udvar office complex located on Wesselenyi street in Budapest on behalf of UNICEF, which is set to accommodate its new shared services centre there.

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

Flexible tenant for Bredovský Dvůr

10 August 2015

CZECH REPUBLIC Flexi Office has leased 1,000 sqm for a new business centre in Bredovský Dvůr in Prague 1, making it the company’s fifth such centre in Prague.