Dragon still breathing fire

In the summer of 2005, a plan was hatched in a cafe in Warsaw for the expansion into Poland of a new player – Panattoni Europe – developing medium sized warehouse projects. For taking on the competition already established in the land of the Vistula, today it has proved worth its weight in gold. In 2007, the new space leased by the company’s tenants amounted to nearly 400,000 sqm, whereas the figure for its main rival, ProLogis, was only slightly higher at 440,000 sqm. Last month, the firm broke the record for the largest single area leased – 56,000 sqm to Leroy Merlin in Stryków. Robert Dobrzycki, Panattoni’s regional partner in Central & Eastern Europe, has presided over much of the success of the American developer in the regionWhat do you like the most and the least about conducting business in the CEE region? What I like is the straight forward attitude of the people. However I must admit that I don’t like the extensive administrative proce