‘Polish warehouse landscape is changing’: expert

Small and large, BTS and multi-year facilities, in cities and the periphery, in the west and east, in the north and south – the Polish warehouse space market is becoming more and more diversified and therefore more interesting. There is a growing demand for modern warehouses that fit into diversified supply chains and respond to modern conditions and customer needs.

"The warehouse market is currently being shaped by several key trends. These are the development of last-mile logistics, supply chain thickening and speeding, near-shoring and/or on-shoring of production and warehousing, as well as the development of modern technologies. Both Hines, in its global study Industrial Delivers: Logistics Steps into the Spotlight from February 2021, and many other market experts predict that in the near future we will witness a steady increase in the volume of warehouse space in various formats around the world, including in Poland," Bartłomiej Sutkowski, Manager, Investment Management, Hines Polska, believes.

In his opinion, large-scale warehouses will continue to enjoy great popularity – huge BTS centers, used e.g. by large e-commerce platforms and facilities rented by several tenants at the same time. The second type of facilities that play a very important role in the development, not only of the Polish warehouse market but also of entire supply chains, are smaller city warehouses (up to 15,000 sqm), including small business units (SBU) with an area of up to 10,000 sqm.

"I expect that there will be more and more multi-functional facilities, combining warehouse space with an office, showroom, showroom, or light production, and even a data center. Such projects fit perfectly into the urban fabric, being at the same time a place for storage and a small assembly, a convenient point presentation, collection and service of goods for consumers, and even the company's headquarters. At Hines, we believe that last-mile facilities are ineffective if they are only used to store goods," the expert added.

(WBJ)