Tulipan

Centrum Handlowe Tulipan is one of the historically first shopping centres in Łódź, opened in 1999 as King Cross Tulipan under the Italian King Cross Group developer brand as the firm’s inaugural Polish mall and subsequently renamed CH Tulipan, with the 41,600-sqm format spanning approximately 60 retail and service units at al. Piłsudskiego 94 adjacent to the Widzew district. The property anchors the broader local-everyday-shopping retail position for the Widzew residential community and the surrounding eastern Łódź neighbourhoods, with the strategic positioning calibrated for the convenience-and-discount tenant register that responds to the contemporary “smart shopping” consumer trend.

The format combines the Auchan hypermarket grocery anchor as the principal volume operator with the contemporary Polish vertical fashion register featuring Sinsay and CCC alongside the broader fashion offer. The Pepco home-goods position, the KiK value-tier fashion concept, the Dealz discount-format flagship at over 400 sqm, the Rossmann and Hebe drugstore presence, the RTV Euro AGD consumer electronics anchor, the JYSK home-furnishing operator, the Komfort flooring specialty, and the Abra furniture retail define the broader convenience-and-services offer. The Z Pieca Rodem bakery-and-cafe expansion, the Itaka travel agency, the local artisan markets including the Sobotnia Rękodzielnia weekend craft market, and the Tulipan Lokalnie community programming partnership with the Widzewski Dom Kultury Widok and the local Fundacja Azyl and Fundacja Skarby establish the property’s distinctive community-oriented positioning.

The catchment combines the dense Widzew residential demographic with the broader Łódź urban concentration of approximately 670,000 city residents and the cross-regional traffic flowing through the principal eastern Łódź arterial corridor at al. Piłsudskiego. Direct accessibility includes the property’s central Łódź eastern position serving the broader Widzew public transport network, the dedicated parking infrastructure handling the regional motorised demand, and the property’s broader integration into the Łódź metropolitan retail map.

Apsys operates CH Tulipan under the asset management agreement with the property co-owners Pradera Open Ended Retail Fund and Star Capital Finance, the Pradera fund holding the broader €3.4 billion European real estate portfolio totalling 1.6 million sqm of GLA across over 2,500 stores in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, France, Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Apsys Polska manages over 800,000 sqm of GLA across its broader Polish portfolio anchored by the Manufaktura adaptive-reuse marquee in central Łódź. The asset’s commercial role within the Polish retail map is the principal Widzew-district everyday-shopping regional destination, complementing rather than competing with the larger 110,000-sqm Manufaktura adaptive-reuse marquee in central Łódź, the 45,000-sqm Galeria Łódzka central super-regional, and the 37,100-sqm Pasaż Łódzki southern Łódź regional retail destination.