Retail &amp; leisure

ROMANIA Wittchen opens 1st Romanian store

13 October 2023

Polish fashion brand Wittchen has opened its first Romanian store in the ParkLake shopping centre in Bucharest.

Romania Largest CEE retail complex opens in Craiova

05 October 2023

NEPI Rockcastle’s Promenada Craiova shopping complex in central southern Romania has been officially opened. The EUR 136 mln project is the largest retail development by size and investment value to open in the CEE region in 2023, according to CBRE.

POLAND Popeyes pops into Złote Tarasy

25 September 2023

The first Popeyes restaurant in Warsaw has opened in Złote Tarasy. The Louisiana-based fast food chain is the seventh new tenant of the shopping centre this year.

Poland Street in the passage

13 September 2023

Street Restaurant has opened in the Lixa office complex. The restaurant occupies approx. 470 sqm on the ground floor of the Lixa C building, facing the pedestrian walkway between ul. Kasprzaka and Giełdowa.

Poland Answear.com debuts in Warsaw

11 September 2023

The owners of Answear.com and the Capital Park Group have signed a contract to lease space in the Norblin Factory complex in Warsaw. In the developer's flagship investment, the first stationary store of the digital platform will be established.

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

CZECH REPUBLIC Biggest buy for Fidurock

07 August 2023

Czech-Dutch investor Fidurock has acquired Retail Park Trutnov in the Hradec Králové region from Czech Fund, which is managed by Brno-based Investiční skupina DRFG.

Czech Republic 13 new brands and more to come

30 June 2023

Opr./edited by JC

According to Cushman & Wakefield, 13 new brands have arrived on the Czech retail market in the first six months of this year. Most of them are in the fashion segment and culinary concepts.

Croatia Big make-over for One Split

27 June 2023

Opr./edited by JC

CC Real, the international investment and asset management company, has commenced its extensive EUR 20 mln refurbishment of City Center one Split, due for completion by the end of Q2 2024.

Czech Republic CBRE on the state of Czech retail

01 June 2023

The rapid rise in prices (inflation increased by 15.1 pct y-o-y) and energy expenses have been met by a further decline in already weakened customer confidence. How did this affect shopping centres in the Czech Republic?

ROMANIA Carrefour adds Cora Romania to portfolio

10 May 2023

French grocery operator Carrefour has signed an agreement with Belgian retail group Louis Delhaize for the acquisition of its activities in Romania, which includes ten Cora hypermarkets and eight Cora Urban stores, as well as an e-commerce platform, logistics and central services.

Czech Republic G City buys final 25% of Arkády Pankrác

28 April 2023

Opr./edited by MR

G City Europe has completed the acquisition of the remaining 25 pct stake it did not previously own in the Arkády Pankrác shopping centre in Prague 4 (Nusle) for EUR 60.5 mln.

Romania Multiple attractions in Colosseum Mall

28 April 2023

Colosseum Mall in Bucharest has announced the signing of a lease agreement with Hype by Kiddo for the opening of large entertainment centre. The centre will have an area of approx. 2,500 sqm, and the tenant's investment will amount to EUR 1.5 mln.

Poland First Polish M Park opens – in Świdnik

06 April 2023

UK-based M Core, through its subsidiary LCP Properties, is to develop Świdnik M Park in an investment of EUR 10 mln. The 7,700 sqm retail park is the group’s largest development so far in Poland and the first under the M Park brand.

Romania Mitiska opens on the banks of the Danube

03 April 2023

Mitiska REIM has announced the opening of a new retail park development in the city of Giurgiu, located in southern Romania.

Poland Two new Vendo Parks

31 March 2023

Trei Real Estate has just opened another two retail parks of its Vendo Park brand in Poland. The properties are located in Zambrów and in Kraków. The two retail parks have a combined lettable area of around 11,000 sqm, and the investment volume adds up to circa EUR 16.4 mln.

Poland Glinianka is filling up

24 March 2023

Jysk, which took up around 1,300 sqm, and Piekarnia Cukiernia Grzybki bakery (around 170 sqm) are new tenants at the Glinianka retail park. The park is being built in the village of Łubna, near Warsaw, and will provide the Mazovian market with around 10,000 sqm of leasable space.

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

POLAND Carrefour takes over in Plac Unii

08 March 2023

A 3,000 sqm Carrefour supermarket is to open in thee Plac Unii office and retail complex in Warsaw, where it will replace Supersam, which operated in the complex until the end of 2022.

Poland Turawa Park ready for extension

24 February 2023

Focus Estate Fund will soon start work on the extension of the Turawa Park shopping centre in Opole. The end of the redevelopment is scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year.

POLAND Forum Gdańsk has new manager

27 January 2023

In January 2023, Sierra Balmain commenced cooperation in the field of lease management and the provision of financial and corporate accounting services for the Forum Gdańsk shopping centre, owned by NEPI Rockcastle.

POLAND Dawna Fabryka to replace former factory

26 January 2023