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Investment & finance

BPT Optima sells Young City site and Baltic assets

schedule 04 February 2015
Nathan North
deputy editor

POLAND/BALTIC STATES BPT Optima, a fund managed by Northern Horizon Capital, has agreed to sell seven office and retail properties in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, totalling app. 112,000 sqm of leasable space, as well as the large-scale Young City urban regeneration site on the Gdańsk waterfront, including the historic former shipyard.

Retail & leisure

Gemini Park Tychy in starting blocks

schedule 03 February 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Gemini Holding is gearing up for the launch of the construction work on the Gemini Park Tychy shopping centre, while the commercialization of the 36,000 sqm gla project is now in progress.

Retail & leisure

New tenants in HopStop Zamość Sadowa

schedule 03 February 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Four new companies signed lease agreements for retail space in the HopStop Zamość Sadowa retail park that is currently being developed in Zamość.

Piotr i Paweł expands in Kraków

schedule 03 February 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Piotr i Paweł delicatessen chain has opened its second location in Kraków at the end of January.

Retail & leisure

Vacancy rate in Moscow malls almost triples

schedule 03 February 2015
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA The average vacancy rate in Moscow shopping centres reached 7 pct at the end of the last year compared to 2.6 pct in 2013, CBRE reports.

Property and Facility Management

SB Property PM for most of REICO portfolio

schedule 03 February 2015
Nathan North
deputy editor

CZECH REPUBLIC SB Property Services has been appointed as the property manager of the majority of the portfolio of Česká spořitelna’s real estate subsidiary Reico.

Office & mixed-use development

Westwing takes up 1,000 sqm in Spektrum

schedule 03 February 2015
Nathan North
deputy editor

POLAND Home furnishings e-retailer Westwing Home & Living Polska has leased 1,000 sqm of office space in Spektrum Tower in Warsaw.

Retail & leisure

Step forward for Galeria Sudecka retail park

schedule 03 February 2015
Nathan North
deputy editor

POLAND The environmental permit has been obtained for a Leroy Merlin DIY supermarket being developed as part of the first stage of the development of a retail park around Galeria Sudecka in Jelenia Góra.

Conflict dragging Moscow hotel market down

schedule 03 February 2015
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA The current military and political conflict in the region has led to the deterioration of the Moscow hotel market and falling property values.

Ceva opens Gdynia facility

schedule 02 February 2015
Agata Kłapeć

POLAND Supply chain management company Ceva Logistics has opened a new, 5,000 sqm multi-user warehouse next to the sea port of Gdynia.

Technology

DHL tests hands-free warehouse order-picking

schedule 02 February 2015
Agata Kłapeć

NETHERLANDS Logistics giant DHL has carried out a pilot project testing smart glasses and augmented reality in a warehouse in the Netherlands. The trial showed that the augmented reality-enabled warehouse picking solution increased the efficiency of the picking process by 25 pct.

Kyiv office market to grow by 80,000 sqm this year

schedule 02 February 2015
Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

UKRAINE Eight business centres with a combined area of 79,195 sqm are to open opening in Kyiv in 2015 according to consultancy UTG.

BBI obtains financing

schedule 02 February 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND BBI Development subsidiary has received two loans from PKO BP for the financing of the next stage of the Małe Błonia residential project in Szczecin.

Technology

3D modelling in augmented reality becomes real

schedule 02 February 2015
Agata Kłapeć

UNITED KINGDOM London-based startup Gravity has developed a set of tools that allow for sketching in the immersive augmented reality.

Warehouse & industrial

P3 completes acquisition of CA Immo parks

schedule 02 February 2015
Nathan North
deputy editor

POLAND/ROMANIA P3 has finalised its acquisition of CA Immobilien’s Polish and Romanian warehouse portfolio.

Construction

Capital Park searching for general contractor of Topos

schedule 02 February 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Capital Park is to develop an office building in Kraków.

Unibail-Rodamco reports healthy annual figures

schedule 30 January 2015
Agata Kłapeć

POLAND In its last financial year, the French commercial property investor Unibail-Rodamco has seen its net recurring results reaching EUR 1,06 bln, up 8.3 pct y-o-y. The company attributes the surge to “strong like-for-like growth in shopping centres and offices, the successful deliveries in 2013, the acquisition of a stake in CentrO in May 2014 and a record-low cost of debt of 2.6 pct.”

Office & mixed-use development

Acar Developer given green light for Principio

schedule 02 February 2015
Ewa Andrzejewska

POLAND Kraków-based Acar Developer, part of the Zasada Group, has received a building permit for the development of the Principio office building in Kraków.

Green projects

Proximo catches BREEAM

schedule 02 February 2015
Nathan North
deputy editor

POLAND Hines has announced that the Proximo building in Warsaw has obtained a BREEAM certificate with a ‘Very Good’ rating. The building, which is located at the junction of ul. Prosta and ul. Przyokopowa by the entrance to the Rondo Daszyńskiego metro station, will offer 28,385 sqmof class ‘A’ office space on 13 above-ground stories and 2,000 of retail on the ground floor.

Retail & leisure

Three new tenants in Bydgoszcz's Zielone Arkady

schedule 02 February 2015
Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Three new retailers are to open their stores in the Zielone Arkady shopping centre that is currently being developed in Bydgoszcz. They will jointly take up 3,300 sqm of space.

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