Retail &amp; leisure

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

Second stage begins for Babice Nowe

19 July 2019

POLAND Gdańsk-based developer RWS Investment Group has started the construction of the second stage of a retail park on ul. Warszawska in Babice Nowe near Warsaw.

Polish retail still flourishing

17 July 2019

POLAND In the first half of this year, developers delivered 215,000 sqm of new retail space, with six international brands making their debuts in Poland according to the latest report by JLL.

Turnover grows in Czech malls

16 July 2019

CZECH REPUBLIC Turnover in regional shopping centres across the country grew by 4.2 pct y-o-y in 2018, according the latest CBRE Shopping Centre Index report.

Anna Korólczyk-Lewandowska
editor-in-chief

Karuzela builds big

16 July 2019

POLAND Karuzela retail centres are being built in Kołobrzeg and Ełk.

Pepco enters Tęcza

15 July 2019

POLAND Pepco is to open a discount clothing store in the Galeria Tęcza shopping centre in Kalisz over an area of 421 sqm.

Tkalnia opens in Pabianice

12 July 2019

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POLAND The Tkalnia shopping centre in Pabianice in central Poland was opened in the last weekend of June.

Three LPP brands in Siedlce Stop Shop

12 July 2019

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POLAND Three clothing brands of the LPP group are to open in Stop Shop in Siedlce.

Czyżyny under modernisation

12 July 2019

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POLAND Kraków's Czyżyny shopping centre, which was opened in 2002, is currently being refurbished.

Eobuwie.pl opens in Gdańsk

11 July 2019

POLAND The twelfth Eobuwie.pl brick and mortar store was opened on Friday, June, 28th and over a space of 1,500 sqm in Forum Gdańsk.

Many signings for Gemini Park Tychy

11 July 2019

POLAND Five tenants joined Gemini Park Tychy in Q2 of this year to take up a total of over 2,500 sqm. More brands are to open in the next few months.

Atrium pockets King Cross Praga

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Atrium European Real Estate has completed the acquisition of the King Cross Praga shopping centre on ul. Jubilerska in Warsaw’s Gocław district from a fund managed by CBRE Global Investors (CBRE GI) for EUR 43 mln.

Rowing into Galeria Mazovia for a bite

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POLAND The restaurant zone in Galeria Mazovia in Płock, now called Przystań Smaku, re-opened after renovations at the end of June.

Meblik enters Hungary

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HUNGARY Polish furniture producer Meblik has opened its first store in Hungary – in the Max City shopping centre in Budapest.

Galeria Chełm 85 pct leased

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Five tenants have recently leased space in the Galeria Chełm shopping centre project, which is being developed by a joint venture of Acteeum and Equlis in eastern Poland.

Retail parks continue to expand across region

09 July 2019

Anna Pakulniewicz

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE Retail park floorspace in Central & Eastern Europe came to 5.7 mln sqm at the beginning of the year with the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland accounting for 66 pct of the total retail park market in the region, according to the latest report by Cushman & Wakefield.

Saller starts building Chojnice retail park

09 July 2019

POLAND Grupa Saller has bought a plot at the junction of ul. Bytowska and ul. Strzelecka in Chojnice in northwest Poland where it is developing a 6,500 sqm retail park around an existing Hetman DIY store.

Two shopping centres renamed Westfield

09 July 2019

POLAND/CZECH REPUBLIC Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is introducing the Westfield brand to continental Europe, which means the Arkadia shopping centre in Warsaw is to be rebranded as well as the Chodov centre in Prague.

Anna Korólczyk-Lewandowska
editor-in-chief

MMG to open mall in Kołobrzeg

05 July 2019

POLAND, Master Management Group, has been granted the final building permit for its MMG Centers Kołobrzeg project to be built at the junction of ul. Chrobrego and ul. Bolesława Krzywoustego in Kołobrzeg.

CEE: retail parks market still under supply

05 July 2019

Anna Pakulniewicz

EUROPE As the Cushman & Wakefield report „European Retail Park 2019” shows, in recent years, European retail parks have experienced a significant transformation with regard to the breadth of tenant mix and quality of design. Retail park development continues to evolve across Europe. In Western Europe, where retail park development has reached maturity, the new schemes have to be innovative and compelling to be successfully developed. Many of the new retail park schemes include leisure and F&B to make them more attractive as retail destinations. In Central and Eastern Europe, the market has relative under supply, providing scope for increased levels of retail park development activity.