Forum Nová Karolina

Forum Nová Karolina is the principal central Ostrava regional shopping centre at Jantarová 3344/4 in the Moravská Ostrava a Přívoz district of central Ostrava, opened on March 22, 2012 with the 58,000-sqm regional format spanning approximately 240 retail and service units constructed on the former Karolina coking plant brownfield site as the largest urban regeneration project in the broader Moravian-Silesian region. The property is owned by REICO investiční společnost, the real estate fund manager of Česká spořitelna, following the December 2018 acquisition from the joint venture of Meyer Bergman and Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, with Multi Corporation as the property manager.

The format combines the Albert hypermarket grocery anchor with the principal international and Czech vertical fashion register featuring H&M, Reserved, Cropp, Sinsay, the Inditex Zara, Pull&Bear, Bershka, and Stradivarius flagship presence, alongside C&A and the broader European fashion programming. The 8-screen Cinema City multiplex anchor, the Sportisimo athletic flagship, the Datart consumer electronics anchor, the Smyk children’s specialty, the dedicated dining circuit and food court including KFC, Burger King, and Subway, the Sephora and Douglas premium beauty positions, the Peek & Cloppenburg fashion department store at 3,200 sqm across two floors, and the broader retail-and-services programming complete the contemporary central Ostrava regional offer.

The catchment combines the dense central Ostrava residential demographic of the Moravská Ostrava a Přívoz, Slezská Ostrava, and Vítkovice districts with the broader Moravian-Silesian metropolitan concentration of approximately 280,000 city residents and 1.1 million metropolitan residents and the substantial cross-border Polish and Slovak traffic flowing through the principal Ostrava metropolitan transport network. Direct accessibility includes the immediate adjacency to the Ostrava-Stodolní rail station and the principal central Ostrava tram network, the underground parking infrastructure for approximately 1,500 vehicles, and the broader Moravian-Silesian metropolitan transport integration.

REICO investiční společnost coordinates the property ownership of Forum Nová Karolina within the broader Česká spořitelna real estate fund portfolio, with Multi Corporation retaining the property management mandate within its broader European retail real estate operator portfolio. The asset’s commercial role within the Czech retail map is the principal central Ostrava brownfield-regeneration regional fashion-anchored destination as the largest urban regeneration retail project in the Moravian-Silesian region with footfall of approximately 9 million annual visitors, complementing rather than competing with the larger 73,000-sqm Avion Shopping Park Ostrava Ingka Centres southern Ostrava retail-park, the 30,000-sqm Galerie Vaňkovka G City central Brno urban regional, and the broader Moravian-Silesian metropolitan retail register.