Demand for quality warehouse space is still the talk of the day on the Moscow market, which is still far from the point of saturation. Being aware of attractiveness of this segment, many developers started building warehouses, though very few succeeded. The agricultural firm Belaya Dacha exemplifies a successful start-up …
Ocean, located at 49 Chkalov St., is the first modern shopping and entertainment center for the citizens of Zhukovsky, a city located near Moscow. The 7,000-sqm complex houses reasonably priced stores which threw their doors open to their first customers in December 2005. The total amount invested in the project, …
The Gorod (Eng. – city) shopping and entertainment complex on Ryazansky Prospect, one of Russia’s largest federal highways, opened in May 2006, following the Moscow mayor’s signing of the respective decree in October 2005. The developer constructed the complex on a plot previously belonging to the Karacharovsky Machine Factory. Moreover, …
The warehouse real estate market has been in active development the entire year. Indeed, the previously announced large facilities are steadily being opened, thus hundreds of thousands of square meters of quality warehouse premises are entering the market. Experts confirm that the rate of growth in 2006 of the warehouse …
The high level of investment activity that seemed to be a trend on the warehouse real estate market has given way to an information vacuum. For the past six months now no new deals have been announced on the market. Despite this fact, specialists continue to speak of this sector’s …
The warehouse real estate market is developing actively. However, not all projects announced by developers have been realized subsequently. What are the main difficulties in developing warehouse premises?
With the spread of business activity from the capital to Russia’s regions, the deficit of quality warehouse facilities has become an increasingly pressing issue. This is particularly so in the Ural regions, where the lack of quality warehouse infrastructure and the slow pace of warehouse development pose a serious threat …
Logistics parks or hubs are an essential component of national logistics chains and a top priority in many economies. The Russian industrial market, however, had a late start, and such largescale logistics projects have yet to be developed in the country. Luckily, a number of warehouses are scheduled for delivery …
Excellent transportation access and clear traffic movement on a complex’s territory is the most important feature of any warehouse project, without which a logistics complex simply cannot operate properly. Despite the basic importance of this feature, transport problems specifically are often the stumbling block to warehouse projects, noticeably decreasing investment …
The present situation in the Urals warehousing sector is far from rosy, as local retailers are crammed into old-format warehouses waiting patiently for the construction of new complexes. Federal retailers, on the other hand, have already grown frustrated in the queue and are putting their expansion plans on hold. According …