January 2020

Institutional fund incepted by HANSAINVEST Hanseatische Investment-GmbH invests in discount stores, supermarkets, retail centres and retail parks in Germany.

Following a rise in sales over November and December high street retailer Primark has announced it will be expanding with 18 new stores to come this financial year.

Galeria Wiślanka, which is being built in Żory and whose construction started in the middle of this year, has already been leased in approximately 80 percent.

Leonard Design Architects have been involved in a major upgrade for Fort Kinnaird´s Retail Park in Edinburgh by creating a dramatic backlit façade made of Solid Surface HI-MACS.

REBOOT, the first future conference, opens its doors on January 22, 2020 at the legendary KOMOS, the former GDR’s premiere cinema in Berlin.

With NordWestZentrum in Frankfurt, Breunigerland Sindelfingen and Breuningerland Ludwigsburg, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) secured three important asset management mandates in 2019, thereby strengthening its portfolio in Germany. In addition, the real estate developer and operator completed major modernisation projects in Schönhauser Allee Arcaden in Berlin and Centro in Oberhausen and reached important milestones in Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier development project. In 2020, URW intends to continue to strategically develop its portfolio and focus on urban district development and the expansion of digital infrastructures.

On the social employment front, the programme has already enabled more than 2,500 people at risk of social exclusion in Spain to find work thanks to the €11.5 million earmarked to this project by Inditex since 2011.

Leading UK property investment and development company SevenCapital has appointed Damien Siviter in a newly formed position of Group Managing Director.

Landsec has signed deals with 25 brands totaling 139,900 sq ft across its retail destinations. From September 2019, retailers joining Landsec schemes include Decathlon, Zara and Radley.

Debenhams announces that Abigail Comber is joining the Group on 7 January 2020 as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

Over the past years, Newsec Property Asset Management has grown rapidly mainly through acquisitions. This growth journey is expected to continue and Newsec therefore hires Rikard Nyhrén as Chief Operating Officer, COO.

The report explores how consumers across Europe will be shopping by 2029.

ECE has founded a subsidiary in China, the ECE Shanghai Co., Ltd., to further expand its existing activities in architectural and planning services for shopping centers in the country.

Dutch real estate investor Altera Vastgoed appoints Ellen Tak-Zwetheul as head of Research & Strategy and member of the management team.

The emerging “Origo One” business centre and the “Origo” shopping centre, which is currently undergoing a major expansion, have both received a certificate of commendation from the world’s leading building sustainability evaluation method, the British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM).

Hamburg-based redos Group has strengthened its head office management team with the addition of Timo Singer (44), who has been appointed Head of Portfolio Management with effect from mid-January.

The Board of Directors of EPP has announced that it will nominate Tomasz Trzósło for appointment as CEO to succeed Hadley Dean, whose term of office is due to expire. Tomasz Trzósło is expected to assume his role in May 2020.

Clear Channel announced a new partnership with Hammerson. Following a competitive tender, Clear Channel was awarded the contract for a portfolio of 223 full motion digital advertising screens across Hammerson’s 12 flagship destinations in the UK, which include Bullring & Grand Central, Brent Cross, and Cabot Circus.

Beata Kokeli has been named as Head of Retail Agency of global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield Poland.

The Turkish shopping centre M1 Adana, which is owned by METRO PROPERTIES and Fiba Group, was recognized with the Sign of the City Award 2019 in the category “Best Shopping Center” on the occasion of the RE360 Real Estate Conference in Istanbul.

Walter Seib will become chairman of the FoodService Institute Netherlands (FSIN), taking over the chairman’s hammer from Paul Bringmann at the organisation’s annual conference in Amsterdam.

Global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson has completed the sale of ten wholly owned Spanish retail properties for $81 million to Barings, a global investment management firm.