New centres, such as those in Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódz and Poznań have
sprung up next to Warsaw on the warehouse map. Logistics firms have remained the
key players, while the developer of the year is ProLogis. The following are some
of the responses to the survey, Eurobuild carried out among agents specializing
in this market.
John Palmer, CB Richard Ellis:
1. Logistic warehouse construction and take up by occupiers is booming just
outside Warsaw, in regions like Blonie and Teresin and also in Silesia and
Poznan and in logistics locations - away from towns but strategically-located -
such as Piotrków Trybunalski. Interestingly, this year, in the purely logistic
market, nearly 100,000 sqm of logistics warehousing has been built and all of it
has been leased. This is in stark contrast to the previous two years.
1a) There has been a continued trend for end-users, retailers and manufacturers
to outsource their warehousing logistics requirements to third party logistic