once viewed as the Goliath to independent bookstores' David is now making a nostalgia-filled return with the opening of dozens of bookstores across the country including one in Lake Orion that opened Wednesday — including the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Royal Oak in 2014 — primarily due to competition from online sales and Amazon the bookstore chain opened more stores than it had in the decade from 2009-19 The bookseller expects to open more than 50 new bookstores in 2024 a Barnes & Noble opened in Rochester Hills Another store is expected to open in Grand Rapids in 2025 in a news release announcing the opening of the Lake Orion store said it is "enjoying a period of tremendous growth" by employing a strategy its smaller competitors once used by handing over more local control to the stores That means no two stores are exactly alike. A Barnes & Noble less than 10 miles away, which opened in 2019 at The Village of Rochester Hills shopping center is just over half the size of a traditional Barnes & Noble and features nonbook merchandise such as vinyl records At the new store that opened Wednesday at Baldwin Commons in a space formerly occupied by Nordstrom Rack dozens of people lined up in front ahead of its opening at 10 a.m "It’s nice to see a Barnes & Noble opening," Jason Brzeg who was one of the first shoppers to visit the Barnes & Noble in Lake Orion when it opened Wednesday said it was refreshing to see a brick-and-mortar store opening instead of closing down I feel like I’m contributing to both and not completely giving away to a corporate competitor," Brzeg said Barterian planned to work remotely from Barnes & Noble while her mother shopped She knew it'd be a good place to work because she remembers the experience of visiting Barnes & Noble when she was younger "You can go in and no one bothers you and you can sit down and read for hours," she said vice president of store planning and design at Barnes & Noble calls the bookstore "a gathering place" that offers shoppers the experience of seeing and touching the books and talking with the store staff about book recommendations "My favorite is customers talking to each other," Flanigan said you would stand at a table and have your hand on a book 'I cried all day' or 'I laughed all day.' But I think it is about the interaction and .. the environment that we create opening these bookstores." While the bookstores have long been gathering places and continue to have cafes the interior of the Barnes & Noble looks very different than the Barnes & Noble of 20 years ago The overall look is "light and airy," she said with light oak bookshelves and a light paint color Each section is designed to take the shopper on a "journey throughout the store," Flanigan said which is what brought out three generations of shoppers to the store's opening "The smell of new books (is the) best smell ever," Meredith Johnston who was there with her mother and daughter worked at a Barnes & Noble store for 25 years "I love them with all of my heart," said Melton The Lake Orion store is open Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m.-9 p.m Contact Adrienne Roberts: amroberts@freepress.com Rebecca Borlace is an apprentice in the Free Press' High School Apprentice program this summer Borlace is a rising senior at Novi High School The South Korean steel group Posco has now started work on a new plant for electric vehicle motor cores in Brzeg The components are intended for electric cars from the European plants of Hyundai and Kia Posco had already announced the plan for the new plant in Poland in January as part of the major order from sister companies Hyundai and Kia It will be built on a 100,000 square metre site and is scheduled for completion in mid-2025 The plant will manufacture traction motor cores with stator and rotor These are a key component in the drivetrain of most electric cars but do not play a role in combustion engines Production at the plant in Brzeg will initially focus on the delivery of 1.03 million traction motor cores in the second half of 2025 These will be used specifically for Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles destined for the European market The motor cores will then be installed in the drive units at the factory of Hyundai’s own supplier Hyundai Mobis The Slovakian plant of Hyundai Mobis is located in Zilina in the immediate vicinity of the Kia vehicle plant there Around 480,000 drive units with Posco engine cores will go to the Kia vehicle plant in Zilina The remaining 550,000 units will be sent on to the Hyundai plant in Turkey The Hyundai Assan Otomotive plant in Izmit mainly produces small cars and also the electric version of the Hyundai Kona with the small battery Posco is aiming to establish a production system by 2030 that is capable of producing 1.2 million drive motor cores per year exclusively at the Polish factory In view of increasing protectionism in Europe and the US the company emphasises that it is important for it to have its own sites in various economic regions around the world Posco also has corresponding factories for drive motor cores in South Korea the Posco Group is starting to build nickel and precursor production facilities in Pohang 50,000 tonnes of high-purity nickel are to be produced here annually enough for the batteries of 1.2 million electric vehicles I agree with the Privacy policy electrive has been following the development of electric mobility with journalistic passion and expertise since 2013 we offer comprehensive coverage of the highest quality — as a central platform for the rapid development of this technology Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country Digital access for organisations. Includes exclusive features and content. See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times. Print WARSAW — Polish President Andrzej Duda has accused the LGBT rights movement of promoting a viewpoint more harmful than communism agreeing with another conservative politician who said that “LGBT is not people Duda made the comments Saturday in the small southwestern town of Brzeg as he campaigns for re-election in Poland a predominantly Catholic nation that spent more than four decades under communist rule Rights for LGBT people are emerging as a key campaign theme in the coronavirus-delayed presidential election as the race grows close between Duda, backed by the nationalist conservative ruling party, and Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who has called for tolerance for gay and lesbian people. Duda, 48, told his supporters that his parents’ generation did not struggle to cast off communism only to now accept “an ideology” that he thinks “is even more destructive to the human being.” The president said that during Poland’s communist era, regimes ensured survival by indoctrinating the youngest generation. “That was Bolshevism. It was the [indoctrination] of children,” he said. “Today, there are also attempts to push an ideology on us and our children, but different. It’s totally new, but it is also neo-Bolshevism.” California The ‘All Black Lives Matter’ march was organized by the Black Advisory Board made up of Black LGBTQ+ leaders and organizations Duda signed a declaration on helping families that included language on “protecting children from LGBT ideology” with a ban on “propagating LGBT ideology in public institutions.” Many conservative politicians in Poland say they are not against gay men and lesbians as individuals but oppose the goals of a civil rights movement they claim is imported from abroad and threatens to sexualize young people But gay and lesbian Poles and liberal Poles say government officials are adopting a language of dehumanization They believe Duda and others are targeting LGBT people to curry favor with the powerful Roman Catholic Church in Poland — which faces allegations of covering up clerical abuse — and shore up support among conservative voters Some analysts also say Duda and the governing Law and Justice party are making a bid for far-right voters who will mostly support the candidate of a smaller party, Confederation, in the election’s first round June 28 but whose votes would be up for grabs in a runoff. World & Nation Even before Polish President Andrzej Duda walks into the White House on Wednesday, he’ll have notched a political win. In recent days, a string of prominent conservative politicians has spoken out about “LGBT ideology.” The deputy head of the governing party, Joachim Brudzinski, wrote Thursday on Twitter that “Poland without LGBT is most beautiful.” His tweet included an image of Jesus and eggs in a bird nest — a bird family “realizing God’s plan,” he said. Asked about the tweet at a Friday rally, presidential challenger Trzaskowski, who belongs to the centrist and pro-European Union Civic Platform party, said, “If you use the words ‘Poland without someone’ — and it doesn’t matter who — that is dividing Poles, and we have had enough of dividing Poles. “I think anyone who uses this kind of language will pay a political price,” Trzaskowski said. Another conservative lawmaker got kicked off the air in the middle of a Friday interview with private broadcaster TVN for saying, “LGBT is not people, it’s an ideology.” Duda said at the rally that he agreed with that idea. “They are trying to convince us that they are people, but this is an ideology,” Duda said. The election is scheduled for June 28, with a second round featuring the two top candidates two weeks later on July 12 if none of the contenders wins at least 50% outright. While there are now 10 candidates in the race, polls predict a runoff between Duda and Trzaskowski. World & Nation Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map Workers begin to demolish a Soviet-era monument to the Red Army Poland on Wednesday began demolishing a memorial to the Soviet Red Army soldiers an unwanted reminder of the power Moscow once held over Poland whose presence became even more objectionable after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine It is part of a longer effort to remove hated communist symbols from the public space in Poland and across the region was invaded and occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union at the start of World War II and then endured decades of Moscow-backed rule until 1989 has been working with local communities to remove dozens of similar Soviet-era memorials when a decision was announced to remove them The monument in Brzeg mark’s the 24th to be demolished He said it was important to remove such memorials because of Russia’s war in Ukraine but also because a Polish law in 2015 calls for them to removed “It is impossible to keep such monuments in the public sphere,” he told The Associated Press The work to dismantle the Brzeg monument is expected to last several days sending military and humanitarian aid into the war-torn country It has also become a place of exile for more Ukrainian refugees than any other single country executive vice president business unit bus and coach; Jacek Monkiewicz Brzeg district governor; Jörg Steins CEO Eberspaecher Group; Tymoteusz Drebschok head of operations Eberspächer Sütrak Poland sp the Eberspaecher management celebrates the opening of a new production plant together with the Brzeg District Governor Jacek Monkiewicz and Mayor of the municipality of Olszanka The company manufactures thermal management systems for electric city buses and coaches on 12,500 square meters “The increasing demand for electric buses requires us to expand our capacities for bus air conditioning systems,” explains Jörg Steins The Bus and Coach Business Unit has been producing in Poland for seven years Previously as part of the Eberspaecher site in Olawa Where vehicle heaters for all drive types continue to be produced Around 100 employees are now moving to the new building In addition to the relocated production lines and the central spare parts warehouse series production of a new thermal management system for electric city buses and coaches from leading international manufacturers is being built there Up to 20,000 systems will roll off the production line each year “With around 30 percent more capacity compared to the previous site we are ideally positioned for current and future e-mobility orders,” emphasizes Jörg Steins Eberspaecher plans to grow to 150 employees in Przylesie “I believe that this cooperation with such reputable partners will promote the dynamic development of our community,” points out Tymoteusz Drebschok The new building on the 7R Park Przylesie industrial estate is just two kilometers from the A4/E40 freeway junction the main focus during construction was on environmental aspects,” explains Oliver Wels Executive Vice President of the Bus and Coach Business Unit The plant reduces operational CO₂ emissions by at least 50 percent and primary energy requirements by 70 percent compared to a building constructed in accordance with Polish building regulations The photovoltaic system and a heating and cooling system based on heat pumps are the main contributors to this the new site also houses production-related areas such as production planning © 2023 G&G Media Group LLC The company broke ground on a 100,000 square metre site in Brzeg part of South Korea’s largest steel make Posco began construction of a new plant in Poland to make traction motor cores for electric vehicles (EVs) The company broke ground on a 100,000 square-metre site in Brzeg The factory was scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2025 and will eventually have a production capacity of 1m cores per year The plant would mainly supply motor cores for Hyundai and Kia EVs produced in the region Brzeg would mainly supply motor cores to Hyundai Mobis’ plant in Gbelany where they would be assembled into EV drive modules for delivery to HMG vehicle assembly plants in the region Posco was fast establishing itself as a key global supplier of EV parts having signed contracts to supply 12m motor cores to Hyundai and Kia over the last two years Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis Nominations are now open for the prestigious Just Auto Excellence Awards - one of the industry's most recognised programmes celebrating innovation This is your chance to showcase your achievements Don't miss the opportunity to be honoured among the best - submit your nomination today Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network By clicking here, you agree to our Terms and Conditions and consent to us collection your details for the purposes of your enquiry Establishing a new production base in Europe to target the European market next to the North American market following the completion of its Mexico plant in October last year Set to begin operations in the second half of 2025 with an initial order of 1.03 million units from Hyundai and Kia for their European production Aims for an annual production capacity of 7.5 million units and over 10 percent of the global market share by 2030 POSCO INTERNATIONAL (CEO Lee Kye-In) is setting up a production base for the European electric vehicle (EV)market this year following its expansion into the North American market last year a groundbreaking ceremony for the new traction motor core plant (PI-PEM: Posco International Poland e-Mobility) was held in Brzeg The event was attended by Opole Marshal Andrzej Bula POSCO INTERNATIONAL Green Industry Business Head Lee Young-Woo is expected to be completed by mid-2025 and will commence full-scale operations in the second half of 2025 with its initial project focusing on producing 1.03 million traction motor cores for Hyundai and Kia’ locally produced EVs in Europe POSCO INTERNATIONAL plans to target major European EV manufacturers and build a production system for 1.2 million traction motor cores annually at the Poland plant alone by 2030 This new plant will be part of its global production cluster for traction motor cores which includes locations in Pohang and Cheonan in Korea By securing local production bases in key economic regions such as East Asia the company has apparently eliminated the risk of tariff barriers due to increasing protectionism Contrary to recent concerns about the EV craze According to the European Automobile Industry Association (ACEA) hybrid vehicle sales in Europe reached 3.41 million units in 2023 The European Union (EU) has announced a total ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035 The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) predicts that European EV sales will increase to 5.4 million units by 2025 and 10.6 million units by 2030 considering the EU’s carbon neutrality policy the traction motor core is a key component of the drive control system in almost all types of eco-friendly vehicles except conventional internal combustion engine vehicles and its demand is expected to continue growing in the future the company plans to strengthen its position as a global supplier of eco-friendly mobility parts by establishing an annual global production capacity of 7.5 million units by 2030 “It is significant that we have secured a production base in Europe which is at the forefront of the eco-friendly automobile industry after Asia and North America,” said a POSCO INTERNATIONAL official “We will further collaborate with major European automakers to become a leading eco-friendly mobility parts company in the world.” POSCO INTERNATIONAL Receives Korea’s First ‘Global Sales Insurance’ Security POSCO INTERNATIONAL Initiates Ramp Installation for Mobility Impaired in Partnership with Gwangyang POSCO INTERNATIONAL Website Wins Grand Award at ‘2024 iNOVA Awards’ Hosted by MerComm Posco Holdings has announced the completion of its secondary battery recycling plant in Brzeg Dolny The Poland Legnica Sourcing Centre (PLSC) will process 7,000 tonnes of European-sourced used batteries to produce black mass This product will then be shipped to Posco HY Clean Metal a joint venture set up by Posco and Huayou Cobalt Co. The new plant will also cooperate with South Korean battery company SungEel Hitech Co The recently completed facility will… European packaging group VPK Packaging Group commenced production at its fourth Aquila corrugated cardboard sheet feeder factory in south-western Poland in January 2015 European packaging group VPK Packaging Group began production at its fourth Aquila corrugated cardboard sheet feeder factory in south-western Poland in January 2015 Spanning an area from 15,000m² to 17,000m², the new Aquila sheet feeder plant produces high-quality, double-walled corrugated cardboard sheets of 2.8m width. It is the company’s third corrugated sheet factory in Poland and is similar to the existing Aquila Radomsko and Wrzesnia plants in terms of profile production The Aquila greenfield sheet feeder plant is intended to expand the service rate to the VPK Packaging customers in the Polish market The facility represents a 35% increase in the total capacity of Aquila business in the region Development of the new corrugated cardboard sheet feeder plant is part of a €40m ($55m) investment announced by VPK Packaging in March 2014 to expand its business in Poland The facility is located in Aquila Wałbrzyska Special Economic Zone in Skarbimierz village Construction at the site began in June 2014 The Aquila corrugated cardboard sheets are produced in single-wall and double-wall configurations with multiple flute combinations The sheets are manufactured using a range of papers as well as high-quality kraftliners and flutings VPK Packaging produces and delivers high-quality corrugated sheets under the Aquila brand The sheets are fabricated as semi-finished products and supplied to niche markets for secondary conversion by corrugated board packaging customers The company’s first corrugated sheet feeder plant was set up in Wrzesnia town in January 2005 and the second plant in Radomsko town in January 2010 to meet the increasing demands in the region VPK Packaging opened another sheet feeder facility in Leinefelde The sheet feeder plants are installed with latest computer systems for fast and reliable delivery of the corrugated sheet products Each factory processes corrugated sheets at a maximum speed of 350m per minute to achieve a total production of approximately 200 million squared metres a year The geographical location of the three plants in Poland enables the company to offer better customer service and fast delivery of products throughout the region VPK Packaging Group is engaged in the development and production of protective and logistical packaging solutions and has presence in 12 European countries The company earned an operating income of €800m ($1bn approximately) in 2014 which produce packaging products such as papers The company produced 703,000t of corrugated boards in 2014 The company also started its first corrugated packaging plant in Poland in February 2015 The plant will offer corrugated packaging to European customers in food drinks and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sectors View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network A new law targeting the legacy of Poland’s Soviet-dominated past requires the removal of monuments that glorify communism The legislation has reignited a long-simmering debate in Poland and prompted threats of a harsh response from Russia A monument in the center of Brzeg dedicated to “Polish-Soviet brotherhood.” The law which builds on previous decommunization efforts comes into force in late October and calls for more than 200 monuments that “symbolize or propagate” totalitarian regimes to be removed from Poland’s streets But while this monument will almost certainly be dismantled Red Army soldiers immortalized in shining steel in Dabrowa Gornicza Support for the legislation depends on the region and even the individual monuments in question Authorities in Dabrowa Gornicza have spoken out against the law and will reportedly hire archaeologists to search for human remains which could legally protect several of the city’s Soviet monuments which had its crowning communist star cut off in 2016 is reportedly slated for demolition as soon as the law comes into force The column is dedicated to the Red Army’s victory over Nazi forces in World War II after a secret pact was made between the U.S.S.R the two totalitarian regimes turned against each other and the Soviet Army ultimately lost an estimated 600,000 soldiers pushing Nazi forces back across Polish soil while Poland today marks the Red Army advance as the start of nearly 50 years of Soviet occupation Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) which was established by parliament in 1998 to address “crimes against the Polish nation” during the Soviet and Nazi occupations of the country says around 150,000 Poles were killed under Soviet rule who oversaw the creation of the monument legislation the first wave of changing street names and removal of soviet monuments was in the early 90s… If we want to build some basis for our future history we need to finish it It was our mistake that we didn’t do it completely in the 90s and that’s why we need to finish it now.”(Photo: EPA) a leading member of Poland’s anti-Soviet resistance movement in the 1980s wrote a widely published article saying Red Army memorials shouldn’t be touched Soviet crimes were smaller.” According to the IPN were killed as a result of the Nazi occupation A Soviet-era statue to a violinist in Poznan Soviet monuments considered to serve a solely “artistic” role are exempt from the new law Inside the Cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Bielsko-Biala but the definition of what constitutes a burial ground is open to some interpretation that once held the bodies of 56 Soviet soldiers Poland says the soldiers’ remains were relocated in the 1950s This photo captured the mausoleum's demolition in September Russia's Foreign Ministry has described the destruction as "akin to barbarism," and says there is no proof the bodies were ever exhumed A memorial to Soviet soldiers who died fighting in Warsaw Although the IPN earlier compiled a blacklist of Soviet street names no definitive list of banned monuments has been made A statue to Soviet-Polish General Zygmunt Berling in Warsaw An official in Warsaw’s city council told RFE/RL they had no plans to remove their Soviet monuments which are more closely aligned to Poland’s governing party Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has pledged her government’s “full support” for the new law A monument in Dabie to Soviet and Polish fighters who died in the spring of 1945 A 2007 poll conducted by a national newspaper in Poland showed around 57 percent of respondents were against the removal of Soviet monuments But Polish attitudes toward Moscow have hardened significantly since Russia's 2014 annexation of neighboring Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula A battle-scarred tank in Gliwice that fought as part of the Soviet-backed “Polish People’s Army.” Following World War II the Polish People’s Army was discredited after being used to violently suppress anti-Soviet protests A statue dedicated to the Polish People’s Army in Piotrkow Trybunalski A local nationalist group has campaigned for its removal “How do we teach our children the true story of our nation when we see a memorial to our tormentor every day,” it asks A monument to Red Army Soldiers who were imprisoned by Nazis in the village of Starzynski Dwor A local told RFE/RL that villagers would physically prevent any attempt to remove the monument At night the war-weary soldier glows under a specially placed floodlight A regularly vandalized Red Army monument set in the branches of a weeping willow in Czechowice-Dziedzice Russian commentators have dubbed those behind the law “the Taliban of Europe,” a comparison that former IPN President Lukasz Kaminski rejects “Our plan was not to destroy the monuments like the Taliban did but to collect them in a special museum to show them as a sign of Soviet domination of Poland for future generations.” A monument to Soviet-Polish brotherhood in Slubice The IPN has designated an existing Cold War museum in Podborsko as the site where the monuments will be exhibited A vandalized monument to the Red Army in Katowice Russia has expressed its outrage at the new law citing a 1994 bilateral treaty the countries signed that guaranteed the protection of war memorials Poland says the treaty only applies to monuments erected over human remains Russian Foreign Ministry officials have vowed “asymmetric” retaliation if Soviet memorials are touched RFE/RL journalists report the news in 23 countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established We provide what many people cannot get locally: uncensored news Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty © 2017 RFE/RL Plant to collect and disassemble battery scrap and used batteries in Europe and produce 7,000 tons of black mass per year Head of the Green Materials & Energy Business Team of POSCO Holdings said “Posco Holdings will continue ESG management by expanding the recycling business.” POSCO Holdings completed the construction of a secondary battery recycling plant PLSC in Brzeg Dolny The opening ceremony was attended by Head of the Green Materials & Energy Business Team of POSCO Holdings Byeong-og Yoo Head of the Green Materials & Energy Business Team of POSCO Holdings said “The recycling business is pivotal to the virtuous cycle economy of eco-friendly batteries at the core of the secondary battery material business of the POSCO Group We will take the lead in corporate social responsibility and secure competitiveness for secondary battery raw materials by consistently expanding the recycling business” POSCO Holdings built the secondary battery recycling subsidiary PLSC in March last year in response to the growing secondary battery recycling market with the increase in electric vehicles and the demands of governments and major customers around the world to mandate the use of recycled materials for secondary batteries The company cooperates with SungEel HiTech a Korean company with proprietary technology for recycling secondary batteries the POSCO Group has been investing and developing technologies for lithium and nickel core raw materials for secondary batteries It plans to achieve sales of 41 trillion won by building a stable secondary material value chain by 2030 a secondary battery recycling plant in Brzeg Dolny ▲ POSCO Holdings held an opening ceremony of a secondary battery recycling plant PLSC in Brzeg Dolny on August 25.(From left to right: SungEel HiTech Poland Managing Director Hyo-sung Youn POSCO Holdings Head of the Green Materials & Energy Business Team Byeong-og Yoo Poviart Boubowski Governor Janusz Zdziarski Deputy Mayor of Brzek Dolny Artur Michałek POSCO Holdings signs MOU with India’s Greenko over hydrogen biz POSCO starts to design the HyREX demonstration plant POSCO expands cooperation with global iron ore supplier Vale for low-carbon steel raw material business beat the Czech Republic 5:0 in Brzeg in their last match before the World Cup call-ups are announced Daniel Mikołajewski completed his hat-trick in the 19th minute while Oskar Tomczyk and Mike Huras contributed to the scoreline in the second half BrzegPoland – Czech Republic 5:0 (3:0)Goals: Daniel Mikołajewski 11 Samuel Pikolon).Yellow cards: Brzyski – Boledovič which is next to an existing Kaufland supermarket already contains a 3,000 sqm retail centre CA Immo exits non-core market Serbia with the sale of the 19,600 sqm office building Sava Business Center in Belgrade Both the sales price and the buyer are subject to confidentiality As the PBSA sector finally takes off in Poland it is now increasingly attracting international operators and investors Eurobuild CEE spoke to Xior's investment manager about why it has such confidence in the Polish market Residential developer Develia has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire all the shares in Bouygues Immobilier Polska the Polish subsidiary of Bouygues Immobilier ESA logistika has leased 15,000 sqm in Prologis Park Piotrków GLP has completed the development of its Wrocław V Logistics Centre and has received a BREEAM rating of Outstanding Panattoni has secured EUR 40 mln in financing from BNP Paribas for the development of Panattoni Park Sosnowiec IV Newgate Investment (NGI) and Redkom Development are developing a large retail park in Bydgoszcz Deutsche Hypo – NORD/LB Real Estate Finance has provided a five-year green loan to Olivia Seven for the refinancing of the Olivia Prime A office building in Gdańsk-Oliwa communications and security company Motorola Solutions has signed a five-year lease renewal 18,000 sqm at the Green Office complex in Kraków’s Podgórze district Falling interest rates and easing monetary policy across the eurozone and CEEi are boosting investor confidence in the region’s commercial real estate market reveals Colliers in its ‘Beyond Real Estate | Economy’ report Panattoni is to build the Panattoni Park Mainz Süd in Erbes-Büdesheim bei Alzey Axi Immo has presented its latest report “Warsaw Office Market – Q1 2025 The market opened in 2025 on a steady footing with a notable increase in leasing activity and a modest decline in vacancy landlords continue to focus on upgrading existing assets and prioritizing quality over quantity Convenience store chain Żabka has officially opened a new logistics centre in Kąty Wrocławskie The first stage of the development will serve 1,500 stores in the Wrocław area Romanian Post has leased over 5,000 sqm of logistics space in CTPark Bucharest to serve as its temporary regional courier and logistics hub for Bucharest JLL has announced the sale and leaseback of two properties by a manufacturing company in a deal worth over PLN 1 bln Warehouse developer CTP is adding 2,000 sqm to its Clubco coworking development in Brno pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has extended an investment facility to PineBridge Benson Elliot for the Diuna Office Park in Warsaw The hotel market in Bucharest continued its recovery in 2024 while the ADR has finally surpassed the milestone of EUR 100 Torus has announced its All.inn students’ residence concept that is soon to appear on ul BIG Poland has acquired the Multishop Suwałki retail park comprising 13,000 sqm of retail space The company now owns nine fully commercialized retail parks in Poland Slate Asset Management has sold three OBI retail stores to the Lindner Group from Germany Cushman & Wakefield has conducted a survey the findings of which are presented in the report From Shopping to Experiences: A Customer’s View on Shopping Centres and Retail Parks Cushman & Wakefield notes that despite evolving shopping trends both retail formats continue to hold strong appeal Multi Poland has taken on the management of the Galeria Przymorze shopping centre in Gdańsk The store offers lifestyle and sporting clothing and is to open this spring According to the "Quo Vadis E-commerce" report released by Cushman & Wakefield the online commerce continues to be a growth driver for the industrial & logistics real estate sector generating significant opportunities for developers and investors the investor behind the Projekt Góraszka shopping and entertainment complex in Wiązowna on Warsaw’s eastern outskirts has obtained a building permit for a mixed-use development Poznan-based company Scallier is opening another facility under the Funshop Park brand in Romania According to the latest report “At a Glance: Modern Retail Market in Poland Q4 2024” from BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland 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Five years ago Roy Anderson was told he would never walk again but the compassion and perseverance of Miss Pniewska gave him the hope to live life to the full. His tribute came as the dead woman's mother today condemned "lawless" Britain, saying the police are "too afraid" to tackle gangs. Miss Pniewska was killed on Tuesday night in crossfire as two feuding drug gangs exchanged shots in John Williams Close, New Cross. The 26-year-old was hit in the head as she made the short walk home to the flat she shared with her boyfriend, Radoslaw Lipka. She was taking a shortcut through a park behind Stunell House, a four-minute walk from the care home. Many of the patients at the Bupa-run Manley Court Nursing Centre, in John Williams Close, are severely disabled or mentally ill. Mr Anderson, 49, said: "She was the best person I ever met in the nursing home - a wonderful carer. There wasn't one minute of her time wasted when she worked here. She would go out of her way for anyone who needed her. "I remember being told that I would lose both my legs. Magda became a friend. She would listen if I had problems and would be caring and offer solutions. "Nothing got on top of her. If one method didn't work, she would try another. She would say: 'We can't do things this way, but let's try it another way', that's the sign of a truly caring person." So highly-regarded was Miss Pniewska that after a year of working as a care assistant, she was promoted to activities co-ordinator. Mr Anderson, who used to train disabled people for Hammersmith and Fulham social services, had his legs amputated after accidentally pushing a garden fork through his foot and suffering complications through diabetes. He said: "She gently made me realise how it was up to me to become mobile again." Miss Pniewska was chatting to her sister, Elzbieta, on her mobile when she was shot. She died in hospital about an hour later. Speaking from Brzeg in Poland, her mother, Barbara Pniewska, 52, a bank clerk, said: "No mother should have to see her daughter die like this. "Why could the police not protect her? I do not understand why a country as rich as Britain cannot police its streets properly. It is like the police are afraid of tackling the gangs. They know there is violence, and they know who these gangs are. "Yet they do nothing and now my daughter has paid with her life for their failure." Magda's sister, Elzbieta, 34, said: "I heard what sounded like bangs and the phone seemed to go dead. It is tragic. Everyone here in my house is crying." Ms Pniewska's father, Ryskard, 58, a welder, said he had been planning to visit her in Britain this week. He said: "I can't stop crying. We always thought London was wonderful, it was her dream. We were so glad she was there. I had no idea it was not safe." 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Polish prime minister Donald Tusk says the flooding is the worst Poland has ever experienced, with several parts of the country underwater. Water levels are beginning to go down in the south of the country but rivers are now taking the floodwaters north. The south-western Polish city of Wroclaw has been partially flooded as a dike on the Sleza river, a tributary to the Oder, broke and sent floodwaters into the Kozanow neighbourhood. The floods sweeping across the country have caused damage estimated at more than 2.4 billion euros ($3.6 billion). In the capital Warsaw, authorities appealed to residents in low-lying areas near the Vistula River to be ready to evacuate if necessary. The river has reached 7.8 metres, a level not seen in 60 years. With the waters not expected to begin dropping before Tuesday, authorities are worried waterlogged dikes on the Vistula may not hold. The Vistula winds in an s-shape across Poland for 1,050 kilometres from the mountainous south to the Baltic Sea in the north. Prime minister Donald Tusk presented parliament on Friday with a report on the floods, saying their scale was "without precedent in the past 160 years". "The situation in the River Vistula basin is much worse than in the last major floods of 1997," he said. Mr Tusk's chief aide, Michal Boni, says if the cost of flood damage is found to have exceeded 2.1 billion euros, Poland can formally request help from a European Union crisis fund, which would unlock 100 million euros of EU money. At Poland's request, the 27-nation EU formally kicked off an emergency operation on Wednesday. Among the individual EU member states who have so far sent rescuers and equipment were France, Germany, the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and Poland's neighbour the Czech Republic, which has also been hit by floods. Mr Boni says 23,000 people have been evacuated from flood-hit regions, out of a total affected population of 100,000. Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)