Trainee programme launched for Center and Leasing Managers

MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG has launched a new trainee programme for future “Center (CM) and Leasing Managers (LM)”. During their 18-month training, the candidates go through four modules to qualify themselves from CM/LM trainees over Junior CMs/LMs to fully trained, permanently employed CMs/LMs.

Digitalisation requires new approaches to thinking about construction and planning regulations

Online trading forces the stationary retail trade to react. But the current application of construction and planning regulations prevents this. “Demand in rural and small-town areas is dropping, which is due to the residential and mobility developments that are associated with the digital upheaval in trade and demographic shifts,” says the managing shareholder of Dr. Lademann und Partner, Uwe Seidel.

NordseePassage Wilhelmshaven - MEC landed a new mandate

This week MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG took over the property, center as well as leasing management of the centrally located NordseePassage in Wilhelmshaven. The assignment was commissioned by Gateway Real Estate AG, which is focussing on the German commercial real estate market and bought the center in December 2016.

MEC takes over the W1 in Hamburg

MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement has taken over the commercial and technical property, center and leasing management for the W1 in Hamburg-Wandsbek. The assignment comes from the KGAL Group which acquired the business building at the start of 2015 for their special AIF as an investment project. The center opening took place in the autumn of last year.

ECE and METRO extend MEC’s joint venture contract

ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG and METRO GROUP Asset Management Services GmbH have extended the joint venture contract of MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG until the end of 2020. The two equal shareholders thus underline their desire to continue the success story of MEC.

MEC rents out 65,000 m² in retail parks

Over the past year, the MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG successfully concluded new rental contracts and extended existing ones for an area totalling 65,000 m². This corresponds to an area of 9 football fields.

„Wir freuen uns über das erfolgreiche letzte Jahr, das vor allem durch viele neue Standortübernahmen geprägt war.

From a start-up to a brand: MEC celebrates 5 years of existence

Die MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG blickt an ihrem 5. Geburtstag auf eine Erfolgsgeschichte: Übernahme von 16 neuen Objekten* (+42%), mehr als 3 Mrd. Euro Assets under Management (+20%) und 940 Mietpartner (+23%), die einen Jahresumsatz von 3 Mrd. Euro (+11%) erwirtschaften. „Wir sind unglaublich stolz auf die Entwicklung unseres jungen Unternehmens. Wir haben unsere Marktführerschaft weiter ausgebaut und die MEC als feste Marke für das integrierte Management von Fachmarktzentren und Hybriden Malls positioniert“, so Christian Schrö

Retail Center “Einkaufspark Duckwitz” awarded the Fachmarkt Star

The Einkaufspark Duckwitz yesterday received the “Fachmarkt Star 2016” (“Retail park Star”) award in the category "Refurbishment". The industry prize, which was launched this year, was awarded within the framework of the 8th German Retail Center Real Estate Congress in Düsseldorf. The award was received by Christian Mielke, Director Region Germany METRO PROPERTIES and Christian Schröder, COO of MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement.

MEC to manage retail park in the capital

MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement takes over the commercial and technical property, center and leasing management for Zentrum Schöneweide in Berlin. The assignment comes from KGAL Group in Grünwald which acquired the retail park for their special AIF earlier this year.

4th Retail Parks Report presented - Branding makes retail parks a safer investment

Eine Auswertung von über 250 Fachmarktzentren in Deutschland durch die GfK belegt, dass Fachmarktzentren, die als Marken entwickelt sind, das Risiko für Investoren senken. Daher widmet sich der inzwischen vierte Marktbericht „Fachmarktzentren in Deutschland“ in diesem Jahr dem Schwerpunkt „Positionierung und Profilierung: Wie werden Center Marken?“. Die MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement hat zusammen mit den bewährten Partnern Corpus Sireo, Dr. Lademann & Partner, GfK, Savills und TH Real Estate die 120 Seiten starke Publikation heute auf der Expo Real in München der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt.