It is best known as a city rich in nature, with forests, eleven lakes, and a several thousand strong student population. It is the major city of the Warmia and Mazury province in north-east Poland, the largest city of the whole region and also the local business centre – specializing in the tyre (Michelin), furniture (Mazurskie Meble International), food processing and wood industries. Alfa leads the fieldAnna Bartoszewicz–Wnuk, head of research and retail consultancy at Jones Lang LaSalle, remarks that: “Olsztyn’s market for modern retail in effect comprises only a few shopping properties, headed by the Alfa shopping centre, “Coffin” too little Logistics deficiencies Run on housingAndrzej Bogusz, Arbet’s president, provides us with the reason for the mind-boggling increases in home prices: the huge prices demanded for land. As he says: “There are only a few plots left within the city boundaries and wherever they exist they lack th