Retail &amp; leisure

Decathlon Easy chooses new location

28 March 2014

POLAND The Decathlon Easy sports shop (formerly known as Decathlon XS) has leased a 1,100 sqm store in the Retail Park Bielsko project in Bielsko-Biała , which is being developed by Biuro Inwestycji Kapitałowych.

Forum Lviv to open in Q1 2015

26 March 2014

UKRAINE Multi Development Ukraine is planning to open the Forum Lviv shopping centre in the first quarter next year.

Budhouse asks tenants not to panic

26 March 2014

UKRAINE Kyiv-based developer Budhouse Group has issued a statement in which it encourages tenants to jointly look for best solutions regarding the complex market situation in the country.

Work soon to begin on Aviv Park Zvezdara

26 March 2014

SERBIA Israeli developer Aviv Arlon is to begin work on its Aviv Park Zvezdara retail park project in Belgrade over the next couple of months, reports local media.

Centro selects locations with care

POLAND The Centro footwear chain is planning to open ten stores in Poland this year.

Factory Warszawa Ursus to grow by 6,000 sqm

POLAND Neinver Polska is to extend the Factory Warszawa Ursus outlet centre, with the work to begin at the beginning of April.

Shopping City in Galați refinanced

ROMANIA Garanti Bank has loaned New Europe Property Investments EUR 20 mln to partially refinance Shopping City in Galați.

Immochan Ukraine implores tenants to find compromise

UKRAINE Immochan Ukraine has issued a statement on the turmoil in the Ukraine, which is apparently encouraging tenants to seek out compromise deals on their leasing terms.

New tenant and slight delay for Goplana

24 March 2014

POLAND A Martes Sport store is to open in the Galeria Goplana shopping centre. “Martes Sport is a brand that has so far not been present in Leszno.

Pogoria changes tenant mix

24 March 2014

POLAND Sinsay, a brand owned by LPP, is to open a store in the Pogoria shopping centre in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

MirLand receives USD 49 mln loan for Vernissage Mall

21 March 2014

RUSSIA MirLand Development Corporation subsidiary Global 1 has obtained a USD 49 mln loan from the Bank of Moscow for the refinancing of its Vernissage Mall project in Yaroslavl, 250 km northeast of Moscow.

Retail developers three times more active in Kyiv

21 March 2014

UKRAINE If all the shopping projects announced for this year are developed, Kyiv’s retail space will increase by 415,000 sqm, 3.5 times more than last year, according to Anna Chubotina, the head of the retail department at Jones Lang LaSalle in Ukraine, speaking to malls.com.ua.

Nathan North
deputy editor

Galeria Amber opens its doors

21 March 2014

POLAND The Galeria Amber shopping centre has been opened in Kalisz.

More space for shoes

POLAND Alfa Asset Management, the manager of Focus Mall Bydgoszcz, has secured the lease of additional space in the centre from footwear chain CCC.

Biedronka replaces Delima in Galeria Rumia

POLAND Upside Property Management, the manager of Galeria Rumia, has signed a lease agreement with the Jerónimo Martins group, the owner of the Biedronka chain.

Giant Kyiv mall to open in the autumn

UKRAINE Despite the political turmoil in the country the Republika shopping and entertainment centre in Kyiv, the largest shopping complex in Ukraine with 450 stores, is to open without disruption.

Atrium Felicity opens

POLAND The Atrium Felicity shopping centre in Lublin has opened.

Nathan North
deputy editor

Moscow, Petersburg and Prague in high street top ten

19 March 2014

CEE REGION Moscow has the third largest percentage of international luxury high street retailers, according to research by JLL.

Work set to begin on Victoria City Center

19 March 2014

ROMANIA Benevo has announced that construction work on its Victoria City Center project is scheduled to start in-mid 2014 with the grand opening set for September 2015.