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  • Future-Proofing Retail with EDEKA and Greenman Group


    Last week, we welcomed the management of one of our tenants and one of Germany’s largest retailers to our Berlin office to jointly plan the strategic development of our portfolio for the future.
    At GFORM, we see ourselves not only as a landlord and property portfolio manager, but also as an active partner, who supports its rental partners in achieving their own sustainability goals and inc

  • BEEZDORF Project 5,000 euro Donation


    Together with the BEEZDORF initiative launched by our sister company yes&, along with five of our retail tenants, we were able to raise €5.000 for local food banks, by selling honey produced on unused land belonging to the Greenman OPEN Fund properties we manage.
    The project reflects our commitment to viewing retail properties as dynamic, integrated parts of their local environment. We

  • Building Permit for the Redevelopment of Stadtgalerie Datteln Secured

    Long-term lease signed with Kaufland, increasing food retail share from 23% to 55% Overall WARLT for the centre targeted to approx. 16 years Construction start planned for Q3 2025, reopening late 2026 / early 2027 Sustainable transformation of existing building with new layouts, improved access routes, and upgraded technical and energy infrastructure PV systems, EV charging stations, and smart s

  • GFORM and Greenman OPEN Announce Extensive Revitalisation of Retail Centre in Datteln


    Greenman OPEN, one of Germany’s leading food retail real estate investment funds, and its sister company GFORM, which specialises in property and tenant management and manages the fund’s portfolio, announced today their plans for an extensive revitalisation of the retail centre Stadtgalerie Datteln in North Rhine-Westphalia. A key component of the redevelopment will be the positioning of a ne

  • GFORM celebrates topping-out ceremony for new EDEKA supermarket with residential development in Middle Franconia


    GFORM, manager of the Greenman OPEN (OPEN) portfolio of German food retail properties, has celebrated the topping-out ceremony for a local retail centre in a four-level building in Dinkelsbühl in the district of Ansbach in Middle Franconia together with OPEN’s general contractor Schoofs Immobilien GmbH Frankfurt. A full-range Edeka supermarket is being built on a 9,400 square metre site next

  • Investing in Extensive Modernisation of Retail Centre Elster Park


    Together with our sister company White Bird, responsible for the technical asset management, we are currently redeveloping several areas of the retail centre Elster Park in Plauen, one of the 79 assets of the Greenman OPEN fund’s portfolio which we manage.
    As part of the refurbishment project, the glass roof of the centre is being completely renewed, with more than 1,000 m² of glass surfac