From minor to major

You now have assets worth around PLN 1 bln across Poland, a partnership with DHL and your own co-working chain – but just three years ago hardly anyone had heard of you. How has a local firm from Katowice been able to grow so fast in such difficult times? Dominik Leszczyński, CEO, DL Invest Group: This is the result of consistently following a strategy over a number of years of building up a commercial property portfolio with solid revenues. And because we become deeply involved in each one of our projects, we have little time left to communicate to the wider world about what we are doing, so yes indeed, perhaps very few people have heard of us [laughs]. We started by trading in land and then started to build small retail parks, most of which were less than 2,000 sqm gla and we’ve still got most of them in our portfolio. We follow a ‘build & hold’ strategy: preparing our developments by ourselves and then we also commercialising and managing them alone. T