Time to talk shop

These days, when planning a new office building, space is nearly always reserved on the ground level for retail along with a few restaurants and cafés, because it is regarded as a major selling point to potential tenants if their employees can nip out to the shops or lunch during breaks. However, there are some offices that don’t have just a cosy café or a convenience store on the ground floor. Some have actual shopping centres in their buildings. Globalworth, although predominantly an office investor, is also the owner of buildings that have a large retail component, such as Hala Koszyki in Warsaw and Renoma in Wrocław. “We believe that our unique and highly specialised range of stores in each of our mixed-use projects that contain retail, food and other services plays a vital role in the overall perception of the building by our office tenants,” insists Maciej Gołębiewski, the asset management and leasing director of Globalworth Poland. The same could be said of the Blue