Greenman OPEN, one of Germany’s largest food-anchored retail real estate investment funds and Europe’s largest Article 9 Real Estate Fund, has acquired a portfolio of 10 standalone EDEKA supermarkets with a total let area of approximately 22,500 square meters. The retail properties are located in the federal states of Saxony, Bavaria, and Thuringia. The deal, known as the portfolio “Chase” in
GFORM is once again the main sponsor of the German GRI event this year. In anticipation of the upcoming event, we share an exclusive interview with our CEO James McEvoy, who gives an insight into the future of food retail. He will also be co-chairing the “ESG & Innovation” panel at the event. For those who cannot attend in person, the interview is an excellent opportunity to get an insigh
In Germany, there is a total need for 15,000 blood donations every day, and yet blood reserves are often in short supply. Due to this urgent requirement, we as the manager of the retail centre Westerwald Arkaden, have recently organised a blood donation campaign in the centre we manage, in cooperation with the German Red Cross. As part of this, a blood donor bus and an information stand were
GFORM is an official partner of this year’s Retail Real Estate Congress (Handelsimmobilienkongress) 2024!
We are delighted to be part of this outstanding event, which is organised by the EHI Retail Institute and the German Retail Association (HDE) in cooperation with the GCSP German Council of Shopping Places and, for the first time this year, with the ZIA Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss e.V.
GFORM, manager of Greenman OPEN’s (OPEN) portfolio one of the largest food-anchored retail real estate investment funds in Germany, announces the successful completion and handover of Greenman OPEN’s latest acquisition, a newly built EDEKA supermarket located in Freyburg, Saxony-Anhalt. The property, with a let area of approximately 2,515 sqm, is the newest addition to the fund’s growing port
We are proud to announce that our parent company, the Greenman Group, has announced the winners of its inaugural Future Food Retail Awards. The awards ceremony, held in Dublin, brought together c. 160 industry leaders from finance, investment, retail, press, entrepreneurship, real estate, and academia.
This year’s overall winner was the French start-up Spore.Bio, who invented the first ins
We are excited about the recent interview we conducted with Kaufland Immobilien Deutschland, in which our CEO, James McEvoy, provides deep insights into the vision and strategies of GFORM as well as its parent company, the Greenman Group.
In the conversation with Susanne Gehle, Managing Director at Kaufland Immobilien Deutschland, James McEvoy emphasises the resilience of the food retail s
We are thrilled to announce that our parent company the Greenman Group has launched its very first pan-European Innovation Awards, highlighting their continuous commitment to innovation and progress. As part of the Group, we’re excited to witness the positive impact this initiative will bring to our network and the industries we serve.
The competition will identify, recognise, and reward b
This week saw the successful opening of a new EDEKA store in Taucha, for which GFORM will take over asset and property management starting in September.
The impressive property, with a lettable area of around 2,500 sqm, was acquired by Greenman OPEN in March this year as part of the 2021 developer framework agreement with Schröder Holding and is let long-term to EDEKA Nordbayern-Sachsen-Th
“The cost of living, rising inflation, and high interest rates are shaping the consumer landscape,” said James McEvoy, CEO of GFORM, a commercial real estate and financial management platform, with a focus on grocery-anchored real estate in Germany, and which was launched by The Greenman Group last month.
“Across the retail sector, this is reflected amongst the subdued shopping mood of co
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
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
