Retail &amp; leisure

Galeria Wisła goes bowling

13 October 2017

POLAND A Dębowa restaurant together with a bowling alley are to take up 1,400 sqm on the second floor of Galeria Wisła in Płock with their opening planned for the beginning of December 2017.

NEPI Rockcastle to take two Kraków malls

13 October 2017

Alex Hayes
journalist

POLAND NEPI Rockcastle has announced to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange that through its wholly owned subsidiary Tuvalu it has agreed to buy the Krokus and Serenada malls in Kraków from Mayland for an initial payment of EUR 249.4 mln.

400 Stokrotkas and more to come

13 October 2017

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POLAND Stokrotka has opened its 400th store in Poland – in Ryki, Lublin province.

Dekada to grow by 20,000 sqm

12 October 2017

POLAND The Dekada shopping centre on ul. Reymonta in Skierniewice is to be extended by four levels with a combined area of 20,200 sqm.

Click & Collect in Ogrody

12 October 2017

POLAND The Ogrody shopping centre in Elbląg has launched a click & collect service.

50 Style arrives in Warsaw

POLAND The first 50 Style store in Warsaw is to be opened in the Galeria Renova shopping centre, which is owned and managed by Napollo.

Building big in New Moscow

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA Horus Group, owned by Russian billionaire Sergei Gordeev, is building the mixed-use Salaris complex, which is to be a part of the planned Salarievo transportation hub in the New Moscow district.

Numerous debuts come to Poland

POLAND After the delivery of nearly 135,000 sqm to the market over the last three months, the total stock of modern retail space at the end of Q3 2017 reached around 11.3 mln sqm. Almost 620,000 sqm of retail space is still under construction of which 29 pct. will be completed this year. The total supply over 2017 is estimated to be 350,000 sqm - according to a report by Colliers International.

Shopping centre vacancy keeps falling

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA With only one shopping centre entering the Moscow market in Q3 2017 and growing retailer demand, the vacancy rate fell to 6 pct, down by 2.5 ppt y-o-y.

ETC Swarzędz opened again

POLAND The ETC Swarzędz mall has opened on after an renovation work which took more than 14 months.

Galeria Malta signs up three tenants

10 October 2017

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POLAND The Galeria Malta shopping centre in Poznań is to include an Annemone French fashion store, a Książnica Polska book store and a NeoNail store.

Sun Plaza extended and still growing

10 October 2017

Alex Hayes
journalist

ROMANIA the Sun Plaza shopping centre in Bucharest has been extended with over 25 new stores in what is the largest development project ever undertaken by Austrian investor S Immo.

Style from Neinver to Prague

10 October 2017

CZECH REPUBLIC Prague The Style Outlets, which will be the largest outlet centre in the Czech Republic, will be open on April 26th 2018.

Dino Zoo comes to Krasta 52

LATVIA Dino Zoo has opened the largest pet store in Eastern Europe in the last vacant unit in the Krasta 52 shopping centre in Riga.

LPP with global ambitions

POLAND Over the coming years LPP intends to debut on one foreign market per year while increasing its online presence.

Eighth Empik Future Store in Poland

POLAND The eighth Empik Future Store in Poland was opened in the Arkadia shopping centre in Warsaw.

First Tefal shopping centre store opens

POLAND The first Tefal Home & Cook store is to open in the Galaxy shopping centre in Szczecin.

Immofinanz determined to sell Russian portfolio by year-end

06 October 2017

RUSSIA Immofinanz has announced that it is in advanced talks with one bidder for its Russian retail properties – five shopping centres in Moscow.

Takko back on track

06 October 2017

EUROPE Takko, a European clothing retailer with around 1,850 stores across 16 countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, has reported a 2.5 pct. increase in sales y-o-y in Q2 of the 2017/18 financial year (May-July).