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The concept of retail parks during the pandemic has become especially popular among local residents, because thanks to the large areas, good location and separate access to shops, you can safely combine pleasant and useful things – shopping, working and spending free time.

Deutsche Investment just acquired the Rödertalpark” retail warehouse park of around 15,560 sqm in Grossröhrsdorf (Saxony, Germany) for its latest separate asset pool, “Deutsche Investment – Food Retail I.”

With the much-anticipated reopening of non-essential shops finally here, businesses will be welcoming locals back into their stores. For one street in Poole, the 2021 easing of lockdown is particularly exciting: Poole’s Kingland Crescent has been completely revamped as part of LGIM Real Assets strategy to re-invent and re-position their retail places.

The ACROSS Advisory Board has its say. On February 25, the ACROSS Retail Talk on “Outlook 2021” took place. 16 members of the ACROSS Advisory Board discussed the expectations and perspectives of the placemaking industry in an exciting year. A large, prominent expert audience followed the online event.

Retail parks have been the best performing and most resilient retail format in Belgium prior to and throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in a slight compression in yields by 25bps since the beginning of the year according to new research by CBRE commissioned by Mitiska REIM.

The first Europe-wide lockdown in spring 2020 sent retail markets from Scandinavia to the Iberian peninsula into an unprecedented state of collective shock. This was reflected in the European retail industry barometer, the Global Retail Attractiveness Index (GRAI), which plummeted to a historic low of 89 points in the second quarter.

CORESTATE has set up Stadtquartiere I, a new open-end special AIF. This fund is the first of its kind in Germany for institutional investors and thus a pioneer in the promising city quarter asset class. Corestate is aiming to achieve a target volume of around € 500 million. Hannover Leasing, an in-house investment management company, is responsible for managing the fund.

A strong year for leasing activities in 2020 and a successful start to the year with new business in 2021 have been reported by Commerz Real, the asset manager for real asset investments in the Commerzbank Group.

In Poland, 2020, a turbulent year, has brought about many changes in the retail market. The unexpected occurrence of the pandemic has complicated the situation for both contractors and tenants. However, Covid-19 has not so much initiated new trends as it has dynamized the existing ones. It is not only about the growing importance of the omnichannel approach, especially with regard to e-commerce; the increasing share of retail parks and convenience centers in retail sales also ranks as one of the key trends. As research has shown, smaller-scale commercial formats have been most successful in dealing with the challenges brought about by the pandemic.

Real estate investor Altera Vastgoed NV (hereinafter: Altera) has sold the retail property at Lijnbaan 81 in Rotterdam. The property is over 400 sq. m and is let to fashion retailer Mango.

DIR Deutsche Investment Retail GmbH (DIR) is strengthening its retail expertise with Tatjana Fiedler. In the position of Transaction Manager, she will immediately strengthen the team in the development and expansion of a nationwide retail portfolio with a focus on food-anchored local convenience centres and retail warehouse parks, full-line grocery stores and discount supermarkets.

Retail parks and hybrids have weathered the storm of the crisis relatively well due to their high proportion of local supply. Nevertheless, in the vortex of the coronavirus crisis, the issue of sustainability seems to have fallen by the wayside in many cases. That picture, however, is deceptive. The necessary (re)alignment of retail parks and other agglomerated retail real estate properties makes it necessary for ESG criteria (environment, social, governance) to be taken into account. The following “Top 5 Lessons Learned” were taken from a recent publication on retail parks in Germany*.

“It would have been naive to think that, somehow, the Eastern countries could have transitioned from communism to laid back consumerism without going through the small versus big Kulturkampf that we have all experienced.” | By Michael MacBrien