Retail &amp; leisure

Vis à Vis with Lidl

Opr./edited by AZ

POLAND A 2,000 sqm Lidl supermarket is to open in the Vis à Vis Łódź shopping arcade in H2.

Medicine now available in Plaza

Opr./edited by AZ

POLAND A 570 sqm Medicine clothes store has opened in the Plaza shopping centre in Poznań, which is owned by the Klépierre group.

Konsimo to open in Gemini Park Bielsko-Biała

Opr./edited by AZ

POLAND A Konsimo discount furniture and home furnishings store is to open in Gemini Park Bielsko-Biała.

Taxing times for big retailers

POLAND A retail sales tax came into force from January 1st. The act introducing the tax was first passed in July 2016 but was suspended when the European Union investigated its legality.

EDS Park Debrzno opens

Alex Hayes
journalist

POLAND EDS Retail Park and Higasa Properties have opened an EDS retail park in Debrzno on the southern border of the Pomeranian province.

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

Estrada replaced by shopping

16 January 2020

POLAND Panova has completed the construction of the Estrada retail park in Zielona Góra.

Strong results for VRG

15 January 2020

POLAND The consolidated sales revenues of VRG came to around PLN 156.3 mln in December around 5.6-pct higher than in December 2018.

Franke comes to HomePark

15 January 2020

Alex Hayes
journalist

POLAND Kitchen equipment retailer Franke has leased 292 sqm in HomePark Janki owned by Pradera European Retail Parks.

Changes in Galeria Echo

14 January 2020

Opr./edited by AKL

POLAND Recently Pako Lorente has opened a 100 sqm store in the Galeria Echo shopping centre in Kielce owned by EPP.

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

Vacancy down on Moscow high streets

14 January 2020

RUSSIA The vacancy rate on Moscow’s main high streets fell to 9.5 pct in the fourth quarter of 2019. The vacancy rate on fanous Stoleshnikov Lane was down by 6.4 ppt q-o-q and 1.9 ppt y-o-y hitting a four year-low.

Bowling in Metropolia

13 January 2020

POLAND Centrum U7 has opened in the Galeria Metropolia mall in Gdańsk.

Młociny is alive with the sound of Music

13 January 2020

POLAND The Warsztatow Academia Musicalowa [Musical Workshop Academy] has leased over 1,100 sqm in the Galeria Młociny shopping centre where it will teach dance, singing and acting.

Wildberries comes to Poland

09 January 2020

POLAND Wildberries, the biggest online retailer in the Eurasian Economic Union (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan), has debuted in Poland.

Saller set to extend Kutno retail park

07 January 2020

Opr./edited by AKL

POLAND Wrocław-based Saller Group has started the demolition and reconstruction of a building next to one of its retail parks in Kutno in central Poland.

Fifteenth Vendo Park

07 January 2020

Opr./edited by AKL

POLAND Trei Real Estate, part of German group Tengelmann, has opened its fifteenth Vendo retail park in Poland and the fifth in the Masovian province – in Kobyłka, on the north-eastern outskirts of Warsaw.

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

EU retail consumption on the rise

07 January 2020

EUROPE Seasonally adjusted retail consumption volume increased across the EU in November 2019 by 0.6 pct m-o-m and 1.9 pct y-o-y, according to estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Tenant changes in Matarnia

POLAND Seven tenants started operating in Matarnia retail park in Gdańsk in December including Pepco, My Tiny Hobby, Uszyte, Vistula, Bytom and Deni Cler.

Tenants flock to Wrocław Fashion Outlet

POLAND Le Creuset, Boss Outlet and Skechers opened stores in the Wrocław Fashion Outlet in Q4 2019. Additionally Asics and 4F increased the size of their units. Skechers, which opened a 200 sqm store in November, is an American footwear chain.

Fikołki in Posnania

POLAND Sale Zabaw Fikołki will open a 757 sqm children’s playroom in the Posnania shopping centre in Poznań. T

Żabka still growing fast