Retail &amp; leisure

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

Stop Shop Siedlce opens up some more

08 June 2020

POLAND With the recent restart of Polish retail trade, many of the stores in Stop Shop in Siedlce have been opened for the first time.

Trei reaches seventeen

04 June 2020

POLAND Trei Real Estate has opened its seventeenth Vendo Park in Poland – in Płock.

Spektrum becomes visible

04 June 2020

CZECH REPUBLIC CPI Property Group’s redevelopment of the Spektrum shopping centre in Čestlice in Prague’s southeastern outskirts is now taking shape.

Four-fifths of Polish shoppers feel safe in malls

26 May 2020

POLAND In a study conducted by research body Inquiry for the Polish Council of Shopping Centres (PRCH), 51 pct of those surveyed visited shopping centres in the first week after they reopened with the lifting of certain pandemic measures.

KappAhl returns to Silesia with Libero opening

26 May 2020

POLAND Swedish clothing brand KappAhl has opened a 550 sqm store in the Libero shopping centre in Katowice.

Two more in Kasztelania

22 May 2020

POLAND Two more tenants have signed up for space in PH Kasztelania shopping centre in Chrzanów ion Małopolska, which is now close to completion.

Târgu Mureș mall opening put back to Q3

21 May 2020

ROMANIA NEPI Rockcastle has announced that the opening of Shopping City Târgu Mureș, which was originally scheduled for the end of March, will now take place in the third quarter of the year, when Covid-19 restrictions on retail are expected to have been lifted.

Aleja finally opens its main doors

21 May 2020

SLOVENIA The Aleja shopping centre in Ljubljana has finally opened after a two-month postponement due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Emphatic return for CCC in Kalisz

14 May 2020

POLAND CCC has reopened a larger store in a different location in the Galeria Tęcza shopping centre in Kalisz in Wielkopolska.

Reopening and renaming for Factory Gliwice

09 May 2020

POLAND The Silesia Outlet centre has been reopened and renamed Factory Gliwice.

PRCH pleads for return of Sunday trading

06 May 2020

POLAND The Polish Council of Shopping Centres (PRCH) has appealed to the Polish government to raise the ban on Sunday trading and to redeem and cancel 2020/21 property and shopping centre taxes payment to allow the retail sector to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown.

Galeria Chełm (partly) opens

07 April 2020

Opr./edited by AKL

POLAND Only three stores have been able to open in the Galeria Chełm shopping centre, which had been scheduled to open in its entirety March 26th.

Siedlce Stop Shop opens with three stores

07 April 2020

Opr./edited by AKL

POLAND Biedronka, Hebe and Dealz opened their first stores in Siedlce with the official opening of the Stop Shop Siedlce retail park on March 26th.

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

Gulliver's latest adventure

02 April 2020

BELARUS At the end of April, there will be a second tender for the completion of one of the most famous unfinished projects in Minsk – the Gulliver[n1] shopping and entertainment centre. The tender will take place on the Economy Ministry’s internet platform. [n1]check

Saller starts Kutno project second stage

01 April 2020

POLAND Wrocław-based Saller Group has started development work on the second stage of a retail park in Kutno.

Douglas goes more virtual

27 March 2020

WORLD Douglas now uses SAP software systems for personalising its online range and updating it in real time.

Better February for small shops

26 March 2020

POLAND The Polish Chamber of Commerce [PIH] has announced that this year’s turnover for small-format stores increased by 11.2 pct in February y-o-y and the total number of transactions went up by 3 pct.

Coronavirus strikes down Vapiano

24 March 2020

EUROPE The Vapiano restaurant chain has announced its insolvency.

Go Sports closes too

23 March 2020

POLAND From March 15th, 2020, Go Sport closed all its brick and mortar stores until further notice.