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The pandemic has confirmed the resilience of Immofinanz’s low-cost retail formats and has resulted in the introduction of new concepts. Immofinanz Board Member Dietmar Reindl spoke with the publisher of ACROSS Magazine, Reinhard Winiwarter, about the resilience of retail relationships, the need for more service, and the company’s expansion plans.

German non-food retailer, TEDi, and the Austrian chain of sport stores, Hervis, will open their shops in newly emerging retail parks in Romania developed by the Polish company Scallier. In total, the new stores will occupy an area of ​​nearly 5,500 sq m in the facilities located in Timisoara, Vaslui, Mosnita, Turda (TEDi) and in Vaslui and Turda (Hervis).

The retail park in Focsani, which was opened in November last year, received the BREEAM certificate at the Excellent level. A commercial facility with a lease area of 5,000 sq m is part of the network of compact retail facilities developed by the Polish company Scallier in Romania.

The Hahn Group has signed a new lease with Kaufland for the Sterkrader Tor Retail Park in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Kaufland will take over the space of the previously located EDEKA store, whose lease will expire at the end of 2022.

Mitiska REIM has completed the sale of Retail Park Mlyn in Wroclaw to AB Tewox. The retail park was originally acquired in July 2015 on behalf of the First Retail International fund (FRI).

HIH Invest Real Estate acquired Warnow Park in Rostock (Germany) on behalf of an individual mandate given by an institutional investor. The district center in the Lutten Klein district was sold by Highstreet VIII, a retail property fund managed by Corestate.

Following its market entry in Italy, Immofinanz is continuing the expansion of its STOP SHOP retail park brand in the Adriatic region. In Croatia, the number of retail parks is to be increased from currently four to more than 20 locations in the medium term.

Trei Real Estate GmbH opened another retail park of its Vendo Park brand in Radzymin, Masovian voivodeship, close to Warsaw. The total amount invested was 3.1 million euros.

Eurocommercial Properties NV (Eurocommercial) has sold Chasse Sud, its hypermarket anchored retail park at Chasse-sur-Rhône in France to TwentyTwo Real Estate, a European real estate investment and management firm.

Scallier has obtained the building permit to construct another retail park in Romania. Situated in Turda, the development will provide around 9,000 sqm of space to let. Populated by some 50,000 people, Turda is a town in the northern part of the country.

Focus Estate Fund has finalized the deal on the sale of two of its retail properties in Czech Republic to DRFG investment group: Centro Ostrava Retail Park (GLA 7, 699 sq m) in Ostrava and Most Retail Park (GLA 6, 471 sq m) in Most. The Fund acquired these assets in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

CBRE Investment Management, on behalf of the European Co-Investment Fund (ECF), has sold BIG Shopping Park in Copenhagen, owned in a joint venture with Portus Retail Partners to M&G Real Estate–part of M&G plc’s £65 billion private assets and alternatives business. The sale represents one of the largest European single-asset retail transactions.