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WFC retains tenants

schedule 23 March 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND The World Bank and Genworth Financial, two tenants of the Warsaw Financial Center office building, have renewed their lease contracts in the building.

Office & mixed-use development

New office building on the Warsaw map

schedule 23 March 2015
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND Portico Project Management has developed a small office building in Warsaw’s Wola district, Portico Office Building.

Office & mixed-use development

First tenants in The Tides

schedule 23 March 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND The Tides building, which is currently being developed on ul. Wioślarska in Warsaw’s Powiśle district, has signed its first three tenants.

Technology

Starwood gears up for Apple Watch era

schedule 10 March 2015
Agata Kłapeć

WORLD Starwood has developed a smartwatch app for users of Apple Watch that is set to allow its users to unlock the hotel room door from the Apple Watch device, with no room key required.

Investment & finance

Wrocław’s West House 1B changes hands

schedule 23 March 2015
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND The West House 1B office building, which was developed by the Archicom group within the West Forum Business Centre complex in Wrocław, has changed its owner. The property was purchased by GNT Ventures Wrocław, a part of the Irish capital group GNT which owns such assets as the Madison shopping centre in Gdańsk and the BPH Office Park complex in Gdańsk.

Investment & finance

Warsaw city hall sells more plots to Ceraco

schedule 23 March 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Warsaw city hall has decided to bypass tender procedure and sell to Ceraco the perpetual usufruct of the plots the development company needed for the construction of an office building located in the city centre. The developer will acquire two small parcels with a combined area of 84 sqm located near ul. Waryńskiego and ul. Polna for PLN 84,000.

Investment & finance

Auchan Polska given green light to sell Reals to Schiever

schedule 23 March 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Auchan Polska has obtained the approval of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection to sell off eight Real hypermarkets to the French company Anciens Etablissmements Georges Schiever et Fils, which is the dominant entity in the Schiever group.

Immofinanz fires back at unsatisfactory CA Immo bid

schedule 23 March 2015
Agata Kłapeć

EUROPE Immofinanz has made a voluntary partial public offer on the purchase of an up to 29 pct stake in CA Immo. The move comes just a few days after CA Immo and O1 jointly offered to acquire 13.5 pct of the total Immofinanz issued shares for EUR 2.80 per share in a voluntary tender offer, at least EUR 1.20 below Immofinanz’s expectations.

Investment & finance

African investor buys Opole mall, plans extension

schedule 20 March 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND/ MAURITIUS Gontar, a subsidiary of the Rockcastle Global Real Estate company which operates in South Africa and Mauritius, has concluded an agreement on the purchase of the Coucal-owned Solaris Centre shopping mall in Opole. The total purchase price for the transaction reached EUR 52 mln at an initial yield of 7.7 pct.

Investment & finance

PKP wins financing for Gliwice station

schedule 20 March 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND PKP has signed an app. PLN 81.5 mln contract with the Centre for EU Transport Projects on supplementary financing for the modernization of a railway station in Gliwice.

Construction

Second stage of Gdańsk’s Alchemia topped off

schedule 20 March 2015
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND The second stage of the mixed-use Alchemia complex in Gdańsk has been topped off.

Green projects

Eco-friendly Alpha Park underway

schedule 06 March 2015
Anna Pakulniewicz

POLAND Red Real Estate Development group is experimenting with green solutions in the Alpha Park residential estate, which it currently being developed in Warsaw’s Ursus district.

Green projects

Kraków's Galeria Bronowice BREEAM-certified

schedule 20 March 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Galeria Bronowice in Kraków has received BREEAM certificate with ‘Good’ rating. BREEAM assessors highly appreciated the application of modern ventilation systems in the building, which have been equipped with detectors of carbon dioxide and other harmful substances as well as sensors which monitor the influx of fresh air and CO2 emission.

Green projects

Riviera becomes even greener

schedule 20 March 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Riviera shopping centre in Gdynia has been granted BREEAM In-Use certificate with ‘Excellent’ rating in the asset and building management categories, scoring 73 pct and 79 pct respectively. It is the second green award for the property. In the past, the mall obtained BREEAM certificate with ‘Very Good’ rating.

Office & mixed-use development

Regus conquers K1

schedule 20 March 2015
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Serviced office operator Regus has leased over 900 sqm of space in the K1 office building in Kraków. Colliers International represented the tenant in this transaction.

Office & mixed-use development

Echo gets financing for Wrocław offices

schedule 20 March 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Echo Investment has signed a EUR 48 mln loan agreement with BNP Paribas Bank Polska.

Architecture and urban planning

Grupa 5 Architekci to refurbish Kazimierz townhouse

schedule 19 March 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Grupa 5 Architekci is to redevelop the historic Apteka Lichtsona house, which is located on the ul. Nadwiślańska corner of the market square and in Kazimierz Dolny.

Hotels

Jagusia spa clinic renovated

schedule 19 March 2015
Aneta Cichla

POLAND Renovation work on the hotel section of the Jagusia spa clinic in Kudowa-Zdrój has now been completed.

Construction

Unibep wins another Warsaw contract

schedule 19 March 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Dom Development has chosen Unibep to be the general contractor for an estate in Warsaw’s Mokotów district.

Office & mixed-use development

Immobel and Multibud conquer Granary Island

schedule 19 March 2015
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND A consortium of Immobel and Multibud has been selected by the local city council as the private investor and partner for the development of the northern cape of Granary Island [Wyspa Spichrzów] in Gdańsk.

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