The EDEKA-Center Aschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt celebrated its 30th anniversary last week. The retail park is part of the portfolio of Greenman OPEN, one of the leading investment funds for food-anchored real estate in Germany, and is managed by GFORM. GFORM and the anchor tenant EDEKA Minden-Hannover look back on a strong long-standing partnership.
The retail park in Aschersleben, located
Our CEO James McEvoy spoke to HI HEUTE editor-in-chief Thorsten Müller at Expo Real 2024 about current developments and future plans at GFORM. Founded around two years ago, GFORM has established itself as a specialist manager for food-anchored retail properties and plans to expand its managed portfolio even further in the future.
He emphasises the importance of sustainable real estate solu
Our CEO James McEvoy participated in Europe GRI 2024 last month, where he gave an exclusive interview regarding the matter of sustainability and net-zero within the food retail sector and addresses the importance of AI in understanding how buildings perform in order to optimise energy efficiency.
“In Q3 2024, Germany’s retail real estate investment sector has continued to show resilience d
With less than 70 days to go, we are delighted to announce that for the first time ever GFORM will be exhibiting at Expo Real 2024 this year!
Visit us at our stand in Hall C2, surrounded by our largest tenants and retailers. Take the opportunity to visit our innovative stand and get exclusive insights into our sustainable projects and much more.
We are very excited to make new contacts
GFORM has announced a strategic framework agreement with the grocery retailer Kaufland for seven retail centres of the Greenman OPEN fund. Kaufland, a long-standing partner of the Greenman Group, occupies numerous properties within the fund’s portfolio across Germany.
The agreement encompasses a combination of new long-term leases for a total of seven properties located in Berlin, Brandenb
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
As a retail real estate manager, we have an important role to play as a partner to local communities. Our recent collaboration with students from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT) in the field of landscaping and green space management to redevelop the Elsterwerdaer Platz is a brilliant example of how we actively form and foster relationships with local stakeholders to focus on t
During a late summer evening last week at an event location overlooking river Spree in Berlin, GFORM unfolded a new chapter in the realm of retail innovation. With over 200 attendees, the inaugural event was more than just a gathering – it was a shared exploration into the transformative potentials of taking an integrated building approach.
The event focused on exploring “the GFORM Way“, a
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.
