Sheds to the city

City warehouse centres are growing in popularity with companies from more and more sectors filling the space. Many are also using these centres for their headquarters, with these offices taking up as much as 20–30 pct of the space. Warehouse and production facilities don’t normally make the most bedfellows with nearby residential developments, which are more of a priority in urban areas. So in a city district where the land is put to different uses, warehouses and estates can come into conflict. Time for expansion “Existing warehouse stock within city limits in Poland came to around 1.6 mln sqm at the end of 2020. At the end of the fourth quarter of last year, more than 230,000 sqm was under construction in new projects of this type. Additionally, around 59,000 sqm is being built in existing parks,” reveals Agnieszka Marczak, a consultant in the industrial department at Cresa Polska. The increasing demand for urban warehousing is mainly being fuelled by the r