Shopping in Office Buildings
Poland | Retail Market SHOPPING IN OFFICE BUILDINGS Q1 2018 Poland | Retail Market CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 THE WARSAW 4 OFFICE MARKET USERS’ 7 EXPECTATIONS RETAIL AND SERVICE 11 OUTLETS AMSTERDAM, FRANKFURT, 18 LONDON… Poland | Retail Market INTRODUCTION Warsaw’s office market has been developing rapidly since the 1990s – currently, almost 530,000 people work in approximately 500 modern office buildings in the city, spending often more than eight hours a day in them. What retail and service outlets, in terms of both size and quality, are provided to them by office buildings? Is it sufficient, especially given the highly competitive labour market in the capital? Is the list of commercial tenants in office buildings diversified? Which sectors, in addition to catering, are developing in these locations? And finally, is there any one ‘recipe’ for successful retail and services and does this function constitute added value in every case? Colliers International experts studied retail and service outlets in the capital’s office buildings in February and March 2018 and they looked at approximately 300 buildings (all that have commercial premises). We researched location by office zones, the number and size of units, tenants by sectors, vacancy and the level of rents and service fees. A survey, carried out on a sample of approximately 200 employees of Warsaw office buildings in March this year, is an integral part of our report. In the survey, we asked respondents about the quality of the existing retail and service outlets in their workplace and their expectations about them. The report also includes several examples of investments from Amsterdam, Frankfurt and London that show an innovative approach to complementary functions in office buildings, depending on their location.
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