Retail &amp; leisure

More customers and tenants in Carrefour centres

POLAND In 2017 Carrefour Polska extended 180 lease agreements and signed 20 contracts with new tenants in its shopping centres.

Sunday, shop-free Sunday

POLAND Polish president Andrzej Duda has signed into law the act to restrict retail on Sundays.

Tesco slims down

POLAND Tesco has today briefed employees about the closure of 18 loss-making stores in Poland.

Biedronka opens in Siedlce

Alex Hayes
journalist

POLAND Discount retailer Biedronka has opened a 1,165 sqm store in the Stalchemia retail park in Siedlce with Savills representing the landlord BMX Rutkowski during the negotiations.

More shopping for Romania

01 February 2018

ROMANIA Over 2017, modern retail stock increased to 3.48 mln sqm in shopping centres and retail parks, according to the latest figures by CBRE.

10 mln visitors in Galeria Echo

POLAND Around 10 mln customers visited the Galeria Echo shopping centre in Kielce last year, which means the mall had an average monthly footfall of over 800,000.

Karuzela Kołobrzeg with environmental decision

POLAND A environmental decision has been issued for the construction of the Karuzela Kołobrzeg shopping centre.

POLAND Unibail-Rodamco had an active year in 2017, which included the openings of the Wroclavia shopping centre in Wroclaw on October 18th 2017 and the opening of the Grand Kitchen restaurant zone on the first floor of the Arkadia shopping centre in Warsaw.

Retail plan for Praga

POLAND A tender has been announced by Warsaw city council for the development and management concept for retail and service in four sub-districts of Warsaw’s Praga district: Stara Praga, Nowa, Kamionek and the area around the Warszawa Wschodnia (Warsaw East) railway station.

Thule in Riviera

RUSSIA Swedish roof-rack producer Thule has leased 113 sqm on the second floor of the Riviera shopping centre in Moscow. The grand opening the flagship store is scheduled for Q2 1018.

Leroy Merlin comes to Wołomin

POLAND At the end of last year a Leroy Merlin store opened in Wołomin outside Warsaw.

Silesia City Center celebrates successful year

POLAND A total of 19 new tenants and 20 stores were renovated or relocated in Silesia City Center in Katowice last year.

Suntago to open next year

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Suntago Wodny Świat, which will be the largest indoor waterpark in Europe, is to be opened in Wręcz near Mszczonów.

Building permit for Galeria Srebrna

POLAND Investor Progress XVII has a building permit for the Galeria Srebrna shopping centre in Wejherowo.

Kik still expanding

POLAND The German KiK discount chain ended 2017 with over 200 store in Poland and a retail area of 100,000 sqm.

7 mln visits in Jurajska

POLAND The Galeria Jurajska mall in Częstochowa was visited by 6.96 mln people in 2017 around 500,000 people more than in 2016 and nearly 700,000 more than in 2015.

Hillwood starts imbibing

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Beer wholesaler BevGroup has leased 3,100 sqm of space in the Hillwood Marki logistics park, which is currently under construction near Warsaw.

Sokół retail park under construction

26 January 2018

POLAND Work has started on the Sokół retail park at the junction of ul. Kryńska and ul. Jana Pawła III in Sokółka next to a Biedronka store, which was opened in October 2017.

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

Better prospects for empty Globus

26 January 2018

POLAND By the end of 2018 a Eurocash discount grocery store is to enter the Globus Park shopping centre near Minsk, which the investor, InterStroyPortalPlus [ИнтерСтройПорталПлюс], hopes will help save what could be the emptiest shopping centre in Belarus (and maybe even Europe).

H&M comes to Tesco

26 January 2018