Retail & leisure
RSSBrandIndex comes to Poland
POLAND Market research agency Inquiry has conducted the BrandIndex poll on behalf of YouGov.
Smyk enters Nowa Stacja
POLAND Children’s goods store Smyk is to open in the Nowa Stacja shopping centre in Pruszków over an area of 443 sqm on the first floor in September.
Two LPP brands in Wiślanka
POLAND Reserved and House, which are both brands owned by LPP have leased stores in the Galeria Wiślanka shopping centre development in Żory.
Retail & leisure
Ülemiste now bigger and better
ESTONIA The Ülemiste shopping centre has reopened after extension work was completed by Linstow Center Management adding 13,000 sqm to the centre in an investment of EUR 36 mln.
Retail & leisure
Castorama opens second store in Bydgoszcz
POLAND Castorama opened its second store at ul. Karola Szajnochy 1 in Bydgoszcz on June 12th, its 78th store in the country.
Passa targets 100 stores
POLAND Passa group, a Polish based franchise chain with 61 supermarkets, is planning to open around 40 new stores.
TXM downsizes
POLAND/ROMANIA/SLOVAKIA Discount clothing chain TXM has presented the main points of its restructuring plan.
Stokrotka to open in Sukcesja
POLAND Stokrotka is to become the grocert anchor of the Sukcesja shopping centre in Łódź with a 1,100 sqm store and will take over the space vacated by Piotr I Paweł, which closed due to the chain’s current financial restructuring.
Retail & leisure
Big data enters the world of retail
WORLD “In 2016 around 4 pct of retailers were using artificial intelligence. Now we are seeing that this figure has risen to around 28 pct or over one in four retailers. We think this is because retailers are trying to get better intelligence to get the right tools for the job so that they can empower and enable their own workforce develop their capabilities to better understand what customers want to do right now,” said Mary Wallace from IBM Interactive Experience during the REDI 2019 trade fair held by PRCH from May 27-28th in the Koneser complex in Warsaw.
Retail & leisure
Outlet for better emotions
POLAND What are the shopping habits of outlet centre shoppers? Why do they shop there in the first place? What do they tend to buy? The answers to these questions can be found in Neinver’s latest report on this segment, ‘Positive Emotion Centres – the Outlet Market in Poland in the eyes of Consumers’, which has been prepared together with research company IQS.
Retail & leisure
No slowdown for retail park development
EUROPE European retail park floorspace increased by 2.2 pct over 2018, reaching a total of 50.1 mln sqm according to figures from Cushman & Wakefield’s ‘European Retail Parks: What’s next’ report.
Retail & leisure
Tarnovia to be transformed
POLAND Galeria Tarnovia in Tarnów in Małopolska is undergoing some changes aimed at refreshing its product range across almost 30 pct of the shopping centre’s area. The new strategy has been developed by CREAM, the property manager, and Griffin Property Finance II FIZAN, the owner of the 17,000 sqm shopping centre.
Plant for Dino
POLAND Suopermarket chain Dino Polska plans to build a distribution centre in Łobez, in Western Pomerania, the company has revealed in an announcement.
Retail & leisure
Primark debuts in Slovenia
SLOVENIA Primark has opened its first store in the country in the Citypark shopping centre in Ljubljana owned by SES Spar European Shopping Centers.
Retail & leisure
Galeria Chełm rises from the ground
POLAND General contractor Karmar has almost completed the structural work on the Galeria Chełm shopping centre in eastern Poland.
Retail & leisure
Auchan starts franchising in Poland
POLAND Auchan has opened its first franchise store in the country. Moje Auchan at al. Wilanowska 89 in Warsaw is a local store that has an area of 450 sqm and a product range of 10,000 goods.
Retail & leisure
Okęcie Park emerges from Centrum Krakowska 61
POLAND The redevelopment of Centrum Krakowska 61 in Warsaw is now nearing completion. The owner of the property, Octava Property Trust, has also announced new tenants and a new name for the building.
Retail & leisure
Leases signed in Arkady Wrocławskie
POLAND A number of lease agreements in the Arkady Wrocławskie shopping centre have been signed.
Retail & leisure
Ten parks planned by Poseidon
CROATIA Poseidon Group has announced it is to open ten Capital Park retail parks across the country by the end of 2020.
Retail & leisure
Sfinks to grow through franchises and acquisitions
POLAND The Sfinks restaurant network is planning to increase the proportion of franchises that make up the entire chain to more than 60 pct. Its plans for this year also include the acquisition of minority stakes in other companies in the segment and the opening of at least 20 new restaurants.
Categories
Architecture and urban planning
Praga to tower up over Warsaw
High-rise developments may be developed near the National Stadium metro station. The city's spatial policy clearly aims to break down the division bet ...
ULI releases New Urban Poland report
Plans created for Airport City around CPK
Construction
Budimex wins foundational contract for CPK
Budimex has been awarded a PLN 146 mln contract to construct the foundations of the passenger terminal of the new airport that forms part of the massi ...
Work progresses on Henryk Arctowski Antarctic Station
Poland heading for a two-tier market
Coronavirus
Vaccination centre provided by Globalworth
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Employers in no rush to return to workplaces
Catella sees hope and chances for real estate after Covid-19
Corporate social responsibility
Not only for horses
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
Panattoni sticks to the fairway
Colliers ends operations in Russia, Belarus
Data centres
Poland to benefit from data centre realignment
While just a few years ago, investment locations were primarily determined by demand, today access to electricity is becoming a key factor. According ...
Data centres spread out across the region
Poland to be the new data hub
E-commerce
This is the end
Shopee is ending its operations in Poland. The Asian e-commerce platform, which debuted in Poland in 2021, intends to focus on operations in other reg ...
Wildberries now growing in Ukraine
Wildberries growing in April
ESG
Outstanding in VGP Park Split
Building A (31,984 sqm) in VGP Park Split in Dugopolje has been awarded a BREEAM v6 Outstanding rating. The certification was carried out by BuildGree ...
Galeria Jurajska recertified
Westbridge secures green energy for Skanska
Eurobuild Awards
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The 15th EurobuildCEE Awards Gala is now behind us and all the winners can be revealed! Special congratulations go to Kazimierz Kirejczyk, who was pre ...
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Call for nominations and jury members!
Eurobuild FM
The power of community
We spoke with Zdena Noack, managing director of Zeitraum Student Housing, during the opening of Zeitraum Racławicka in Kraków.
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 3
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 2
EurobuildCEE
The June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The June issue of EurobuildCEE magazine has now hit the shelves! And one of its recurring themes is how best to operate in an increasingly mature and ...
This sporting real estate life
The May issue of Eurobuild is now out!
Events
JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament on August 6th
On 6 August, the 15th JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament for the Real Estate Industry will take place at Warsaw's Monta Beach Volley Club. Eurobu ...
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
Let's play volleyball again
Exclusive
The man from NASA
Czechia stands out as the CEE country with the largest volume of domestic capital invested across the region itself. Now, NASA Capital has entered Pol ...
Strengthening our presence – Wolfgang Molnar of Erste Group Bank
Experienced and out-of-the-box – Josef Malíř of SCF
Eye to eye
Eye to eye… with Władysław Grochowski
After a long break, we invite you to hot episode of the "Eye to eye" podcast! Today we talk with Władysław Grochowski, the head and founder of Arche.
Eye to eye… with Paweł Sapek
Eye to eye with… Daniel Bienias
For Ukraine
Nansen Refugee Award goes to Poland!
The UN Nansen Refugee Award award will go to Poland for the first time. According to the office of the UNHCR High Commissioner this year's regional wi ...
Build Europe supports refugees and appeals to European Commission
Former Russian building to house Ukrainian refugees
Green projects
EIB grants CTP solar-powered €200m loan
Czech developer CTP has been granted a EUR 200 mln loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out of its large-scale solar panel installation ...
Cromwell granted €66m green loan for Janki
Pad Res to build 2 PV farms in Pomerania
Hotels
Mercure opens in Oradea
Accor has announced the opening of the Mercure Oradea. The new 90-room hotel is the hospitality group’s 26th location in the country. It is managed by ...
Saltic Zieleniec hotel under construction by Mirbud
Marvipol launches Unique Hotel Kołobrzeg
Human resources
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Marek Noetzel has been appointed CEO of NEPI Rockcastle and announced a new management team, based entirely on internal promotions.
Change at the top for ULI Europe
ULI announces new chairs
Infrastructure
Hydrobudowa Gdańsk to modernise Władysławowo quay for BC-Wind
Ocean Winds has selected Hydrobudowa Gdańsk as the general contractor for adapting part of the port infrastructure in Władysławowo on the Baltic coast ...
Intermodal strengthens Poland’s position on the European logistics map
Orlen buys 216 MW hybrid renewable energy project in Wielkopolska
Interior design
ING Hubs Poland opens new HQ in The Form
ING Hubs Poland is officially moving into its new headquarters in The Form office building in Warsaw’s Wola business district. The more than 6,000 sqm ...
New food hall in Poznań
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
Investment & finance
PLN 52 bln developed, but supply not keeping up with demand
July saw a shift in the supply-demand ratio across Poland’s seven largest housing markets. The pool of available developer units fell below the 60,000 ...
Apsys goes shopping for 3 Stawy
CEE real estate investment goes steadily upward
Land acquisitions
Panattoni enlarges its Swedish portfolio
Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg, Sweden. The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility.
CTP purchases land in Kragujevac
CTP secures major brownfield site
Material partner
Brownfield rather than greenfield – a model for sustainable development at City Point Targówek
Contemporary cities are grappling with the challenge of fostering dynamic growth while alleviating environmental pressures. Traditional infrastructure ...
Nordbygg 2024: Many innovations and strong interest
Excellent Fern at Off Piotrkowska
Office & mixed-use development
VeloBank renews Citi Handlowy lease in Q22
VeloBank, which finalised the acquisition of Citi Handlowy’s retail banking operations in Poland in June, has renewed the company’s lease of 1,068 sqm ...
Knight Frank chosen for Loft Park in Kraków
New conference centre for Diuna
Property and Facility Management
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
JLL has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent responsible for the Equal Business Park office complex in Kraków, owned by Apollo Rida. JLL's other ...
Savills takes on two Warsaw buildings
Tensions in the gulf promote energy efficiency
Public buildings
Szczecin castle reconstruction completed
Mostostal Warszawa has completed the second stage of the reconstruction of the north wing of the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle (Zamek Książąt Pomorskich) i ...
Dewin–Biberstein–Promnitz Castle to be restored
Budimex rebuilds Szczecin sports centre
Residential
Liberty Tower sells PLN 250 mln in six months
Since sales began in February 2026, 122 contracts have been concluded in the Liberty Tower residential building in Warsaw, which is owned by Cavatina. ...
Still too few student beds
Mercator ready to begin flagship Kraków project
Retail & leisure
TK Maxx to debut in Galeria Wiślanka
TK Maxx is to open a 2,200 sqm store in Galeria Wiślanka in Żory, about 30 km southwest of Katowice in Silesia. This will be the British clothing chai ...
Auchan opens in Fuzja
Intermarché opens new-format supermarket in Radlin
Technology
Singu takes over QRmaint
Singu, a European platform for managing commercial property, has today announced the acquisition of QRmaint, one of Europe's fastest-growing providers ...
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Warehouse & industrial
MLP enters Hamburg market
MLP Group has acquired a 6.8 ha brownfield site from a private owner in Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, near Hamburg – marking the group’s debut in th ...
