Paradiso regained?

Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the first multi-screen cinema was opened in Poland and since this time it has become a permanent fixture of the entertainment on offer in cities. The sector grew rapidly together with large shopping centres. That is, until 2020 – when, with the outbreak of the pandemic, everything changed. Stalls in malls “The times when cinema chains were expanding across Poland are now over,” declares Krzysztof Wyrzykowski, a senior associate in the retail department at Colliers. Together with such economic issues as high inflation, rising labour costs and unstable building material prices, given the already high saturation of cinema networks across Poland there is little prospect of their further expansion. “The development of cinema chains in Poland followed that of the construction of multi-format shopping centres, which are no longer being built today. These days the retail market is only growing through the development o