Trouble in store

The ground floors of many new housing projects are designated commercial areas. however, sometimes residents are dissatisfied with what they have to offer. so it is worth taking their needs into account as early as the design stage – especially as we are still waiting for the good times to return to the residential marketZuzanna Wiakthis summer, Spanish company Restaura completed the development of an apartment building on ul. Górskiego in central Warsaw. The project offers 108 apartments, some priced as high as PLN 38,000 per sqm, but with 700 sqm of the commercial space also being sold at PLN 7,000–14,000 per sqm. You might think that this is an ideal place for opening a modern sushi bar or a luxury wine shop. However, the developer decided at the design stage that it would have no restaurants or bars. “There should be no restaurants in this residential project because they come to life when we come back home tired and want to have a rest,” argues Paweł Augu