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  • Introducing the Greenman OPEN App

    Investing in retail real estate has never been more accessible. Meet the Greenman OPEN app, designed to streamline your investment experience with exclusive access to Europe’s largest Article 9 real estate fund. Here’s what makes it the ideal choice for those seeking retail investmemt:
    Effortless Investing: The in-app subscription option simplifies the entire investment process, enabling you

  • OPEN surpasses AUM €1 billion

    Three retail parks acquired in Germany for €90 million, increasing Greenman OPEN’s AUM to over €1 billion
    Greenman OPEN (OPEN), one of the largest food retail-focused investment funds in Germany, has acquired three retail parks for a combined value of c.€90 million, increasing the fund’s AUM to more than €1billion.
    OPEN has acquired a retail centre in Sonneberg on the Bavarian border. Fully

  • Vertical Farming’s Christmas Sale at Biesdorf Center

    We are thrilled to announce that our sister company, Potager Farm, takes a giant leap forward with their first-ever direct-to-consumer sale of fresh, local, and pesticide-free food.
    In September this year and as part of a pilot-project, the first seeds were sown and a batch of produce was provided to gastronomic partners to receive feedback on quality, durability, aroma, taste profile, freshnes

  • Greenman OPEN and GFORM celebrate topping-out ceremony for new EDEKA supermarket with residential development in Middle Franconia

    Greenman OPEN and its sister company GFORM, manager of OPEN’s portfolio of German food retail properties, have 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 m

  • ESG Special in PropertyEU: The Digital Evolution of Retail

    Greenman’s Head of Distribution David O’Meara recently shared his thoughts in PropertyEU on the digital evolution of retail. Recent years have seen technology permeate every aspect of retail and real estate, with supply chains experiencing substantial advancements.
    In an era where technology is revolutionising every corner of retail, the tangible aspects – our buildings, warehouses, and retail

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

    Greenman OPEN 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 new grocery anchor as a tenant for the location.
    Construction is targete

  • Greenman OPEN takes over new DGNB gold-certified local retail centre in Rhinland-Palatinate

    Greenman OPEN takes over another new local retail centre in Montabaur, Rhineland-Palatinate. The opening ceremony, hosted by REWE, was attended by the Mayor of Montabaur Gabriele Wieland, project developer Schoofs Immobilien GmbH Frankfurt, and other project participants. The local shopping centre in the district town of Montabaur is DGNB gold certified and offers a total of 6,811 square metres of

  • Greenman and Schoofs celebrate opening of Westerwald Arkaden in Rhineland-Palatinate with 3,000 guests

    On April 26, the Westerwald Arkaden retail centre in Höhr-Grenzhausen (Rhineland-Palatinate) opened with a big folk festival and more than 3,000 guests – including Mayor Thilo Becker and State Secretary Ms. Petra Dick-Walther, from the Ministry of Economy, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture. The opening ceremony was co-hosted by the owner Greenman OPEN (OPEN), developer Schoofs Immobilien Fran

  • Greenman OPEN celebrates the start of a new retail real estate project with developer Schoofs

    Greenman OPEN and Schoofs Immobilien Frankfurt GmbH have laid the foundation stone for a four-level building in Dinkelsbühl in the district of Ansbach in Middle Franconia. On a 9,400 sqm site, an Edeka full-range store is being built that has signed a 21-year lease, next to a bakery with a café, topped by three residential floors with a total of 83 barrier-free apartments. The mixed-use property w

  • OPEN & GFORM celebrate topping-out ceremony of the Rastal Center

    On Thursday 17 th November the Greenman OPEN and GFORM team attended the Richtfest ceremony for one of OPEN’s new retail centres in Hohr-Grenzhausen.
    Acquired at the end of 2021, the new turnkey Rastal Center was the second acquisition from OPEN’s portfolio framework agreement with developer Schoofs Immobilien Frankfurt. One year after the start of construction, the shell of the centre is now c

  • Debut at Biesdorf Center: Greenman OPEN launches digitalisation trial giving insights into the future of retail

    Within the celebration of a Halloween event last weekend Greenman OPEN (OPEN) demonstrated, together with the metaverse infrastructure provider Mapstar AG from Karlsruhe, how digitalisation revolutionises the retail landscape. Greenman OPEN, one of the largest investment funds focused on food retail in Germany, wanted to explore how the consumer’s physical shopping experience can be enhanced throu

  • The Greenman Group launches GFORM, a market-leading real estate management company

    The Greenman Group (the ‘Group’), has launched GFORM, a commercial real estate and financial management platform, with a particular speciality in grocery-anchored real estate in Germany.
    Headed by James McEvoy, CEO, and Maren Große-Löscher, CFO, who have both worked for Greenman for more than 8 years, GFORM will grow its €1.08 bn of assets under management from the Greenman OPEN fund with the a

  • Halloween at Metaverse

    Join us for a unique experience at Berlin’s Biesdorf Center and the first event of our collaboration with Mapstar.
    We invite you to take a look into the future of retail at Biesdorf Center on October 28th with a virtual tour guide who will lead you through the center. You can discover a virtual 3D E-Lorean and finally there will be some Halloween fun with spooky hidden ghosts and ghouls!
    Joi

  • OPEN and Schoofs Immobilien to develop €215m of grocery-anchored mixed-use assets in Germany

    Greenman Open has appointed Schoofs Immobilien GmbH Frankfurt, to develop a portfolio of eleven retail parks and mixed-use properties with a volume of EUR 215 million. This portfolio is to be jointly developed and realized by 2025. The 11 assets are located near large cities with growing populations spread across the areas of east and south Germany.
    Greenman OPEN is looking forward to extend an

  • Grocery retail performs consistently throughout periods of upheaval

    Throughout the past few years, grocery retail has been the shining light of retail, performing consistently and steadily. Now, as the prevalence of the pandemic recedes in Europe, hospitality reopens, supply chains struggle and prices inflate, how will the grocery retail market perform?
    Several consumer driven trends will affect grocery retailers’ strategies. Amongst them are increased price se

  • Greenman launches pan-European grocery-anchored real estate fund

    Greenman, the specialist grocery-anchored retail real estate investment and fund manager, announces today the launch of Greenman European Supermarkets (GES), an open-ended fund that will invest primarily in grocery-anchored real estate, with the flexibility to acquire logistics and omni-channel grocery distribution assets as well as retail platforms across the EU.
    GES received regulatory approv

  • REACT NEWS: Outlook 2022: optimism returning to retail sector

    After some tough years for the sector, investor appetite is expected to return in 2022.
    After years of doom and gloom around retail, optimism is finally returning to the sector.
    Having proved its resilience during the pandemic, there is no surprise that the convenience subsector is highly sought after, but investor interest is now growing for a broader range of retail properties. Out of town

  • OPEN signs long-term framework agreement with Kaufland

    Greenman OPEN (OPEN), one of the largest food retail-focused investment funds in Germany, has recently agreed a new framework agreement with Kaufland, one of Germany’s leading grocery retailers, on the long-term renewal of five leases across a portfolio of five retail centres it acquired in 2019 for €112m.
    As a result of this agreement, the weighted average remaining lease term (WARLT) of the p

  • Centre Snapshot: Drehscheibe Homberg (Efze)

    The food dominated retail hybrid centre “Drehscheibe Homberg” in Homberg (Efze) was acquired by OPEN last year and was added to its operational portfolio in April 2021.The centre, which is located in the city centre of Homberg in the northern part of Hesse, brings city flair to the middle of the small town which is characterized by half-timbering and blends harmoniously into the existing developme

  • New E-Mobility Hub at the Biesdorf-Center

    A new kind of mobility is being defined in urban and suburban areas with the uptake in usage of electric vehicles, such as cars, bicycles, and scooters. With these different e-mobility options, ride sharing has never been easier. It’s no secret that retail properties selling everyday goods offer the perfect location for e-charging infrastructure providers focusing on high-frequency locations. Jelb

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