Retail &amp; leisure

POLAND A Forday Fitness For Life club has opened in hall ‘F’ of Centrum Hal Targowych Marywilska 44 in Warsaw.

Fresh faces in Millennium Plaza

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND In the first half of the year Atlas Estates leased out an area of 7,400 sqm in the Millennium Plaza office complex in Warsaw.

CCC to stay in Auchan Gdańsk

POLAND The second stage of the redevelopment of the Auchan Gdańsk shopping centre is to start early next year.

Permit for Outlet Center Białystok

POLAND A building permit has been issued for retail project being developed by Adv Por Property Investment (a subsidiary of Forum XXVIII FIZ) in Białystok.

Second stage of Impressio topped off

POLAND The five residential blocks that comprise the second stage of the Impressio estate in Wrocław have been topped off.

Romanian retail space sees slow but steady growth

ROMANIA Although no new shopping centre has opened in Romania in the first half of the year, the country’s modern retail space is set to increase by 350,000 sqm by the end of 2016, boosting the Romanian retail density to 158 sqm per 1,000 residents, according to CBRE.

Cinema 3D comes to Morena

04 August 2014

POLAND A new tenant has been secured for the Morena shopping centre in Gdańsk – Cinema 3D.

Guess opens two outlets

04 August 2014

POLAND Fashion House outlet centres in Piaseczno and Gdańsk have been chosen by fashion retailer Guess as the locations for two outlet stores of the brand.

Aelia given thumbs up to acquire Zagreb airport retailer

04 August 2014

CROATIA French airport operator Aéroports de Paris and French duty free retailer Aelia have been given the go-ahead from the European Commission to acquire MZLZ Trgovina, a retail arm of MZLZ (Zagreb International Airport).

Inbap signs contracts with CCC

01 August 2014

POLAND CCC footwear stores are to be opened in five shopping centres that are currently under construction and owned by the Inbap closed investment fund for non-public assets.

Ninth Dekada centre opens

01 August 2014

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Dekada’s ninth retail facility has opened in Brodnica in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province).

Developers shift interest to smaller cities

31 July 2014

POLAND In H1 2014 over half of new retail space was completed in cities with less than 100,000 inhabitants, with another 22 pct in cities with populations of between 100,000 and 200,000, according to research by DTZ.

Klépierre builds multibillion retail empire

31 July 2014

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

EUROPE Paris-listed pan-European shopping centre operator Klépierre is set to acquire the Netherlands-based retail group Corio for EUR 7.2 bln. The move comes as Klépierre, which owns assets worth EUR 14 bln, aims to strengthen its position on the market and become Europe’s “leading pure-play retail property company.”

LC Waikiki expands in Ukraine

30 July 2014

UKRAINE Turkish fashion retailer LC Waikiki has singed a 1,190 sqm lease for space in the Riviera shopping centre in Odessa.

Galardia nearly full

29 July 2014

Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND Jysk, Altero, Martes Sport, Briju and Textil Market are the latest brands to sign up for space in the Galardia shopping centre in Starachowice.

24/7 fitness operator enters Warsaw market

29 July 2014

POLAND Newly-launched Polish gym chain CityFit has leased 2,800 sqm in a centrally-located Warsaw skyscraper, Spektrum Tower, complementing the refurbishment work that currently takes place in the eleven-year old building.

Bowling in Wzorcownia

29 July 2014

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND The Wzorcownia Włocławek shopping centre has secured two new tenants from the sports and recreation sector.

Shopping malls on rise in Poland

25 July 2014

POLAND Retail real estate market in Poland is seeing a healthy growth as smaller cities willingly develop new shopping centres to enhance local offer and catch up with big cities, a study by JLL shows.

Ciechanów shopping mall expands by 3,000 sqm

23 July 2014

Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND Eight-year old Galeria Mrówka, a Ciechanów shopping centre, has informed that it will undergo an extensive refurbishment and extension by the end of Q3 2015. The construction work, which is scheduled to begin in Q3 2014, will be performed by the mall’s owner, Rolbud.