Järve Center

Businessman Vello Kunman privatized the AS Silikaat concrete factory in 1995 and acquired the land it sat on along Pärnu maantee; when production relocated to Männiku and Silikaat ended manufacturing at the site in 1997, the vacated buildings were progressively converted to retail under the name Silikaadi Kaubahoov before formally reopening as the unified Järve Keskus on October 1, 2002.

Selver anchors the grocery floor, with a standalone Lidl operating on the same larger property. Aatrium Sisustuskaubamaja carries home furnishings across a large footprint, alongside a dense cluster of smaller furniture and home-goods retailers including Charma Furniture, Hygge and SKANO. Sportland and several independent sporting-goods and outdoor retailers round out the specialty floor.

OÜ Järve Kaubanduskeskus, the entity Silikaat Grupp uses to operate the property, sits within a wider holding of 33 Estonia-based companies, spanning agriculture (Kõo Agro, Mangeni PM), retail (Aatrium) and renewable transport fuel production (Biometaan), reflecting Kunman’s diversification well beyond the original construction-materials business that funded the site’s acquisition.

That diversification pattern, an owner who built his fortune in construction materials now running a shopping center as one line of business among agriculture, retail and renewable fuel, has shaped how Järve Center is run day to day: rather than repositioning the property toward fashion or entertainment to compete with newer Tallinn malls, Silikaat Grupp has kept it anchored in grocery and home goods, the categories closest to the industrial-supply logic the group’s other companies already operate under.