Size matters

Warehousing companies are turning their gaze towards projects offering small spaces for rent. ‘Small units’ are still a niche market, but to judge by developer interest, they are generating excitement despite their size Ewa AndrzejewskaIn Poland, there is still no commonly agreed term for warehousing of a more diminutive nature. This type of project is variously called a ‘small business unit’, a ‘flexi’ or ‘small space’, but this lack of consensus about terminology is by no means discouraging for the industry, as an increasingly wide circle of the warehousing world is now discussing the potential of these ‘small’ projects. The minimum space which may be rented in such facilities is around 450-500 sqm. According to Tomasz Mika, senior negotiator of Cushman & Wakefield’s industrial department: “The smallest warehouse space which developers have offered so far has been 2,700 sqm. In exceptional cases such space i