M1 Bytom

M1 Bytom is one of the principal Silesian regional shopping centres in the Upper Silesian agglomeration, with the 35,892-sqm regional format spanning over 50 retail and service units anchored by the ATAC Hiper Discount by Auchan grocery flagship. The property sits within the broader M1 EPP portfolio of nine regional shopping centres standardised across central and southern Poland under the EPP asset management mandate established on May 1, 2024 following the termination of the Metro AG master lease, with the integration into the broader Upper Silesian conurbation retail map establishing the regional commercial position.

The format combines the ATAC Hiper Discount by Auchan grocery anchor with the contemporary Polish vertical fashion register featuring H&M and CCC alongside the broader fashion offer. The MediaMarkt consumer electronics anchor, the OBI DIY warehouse, the TK Maxx off-price flagship, the C&A flagship presence, the JYSK home-furnishing operator, the Pepco home-goods position, the TEDi value-tier home-goods anchor, the Rossmann pharmacy, and the broader convenience services define the M1 standardised tenant register. The dining circuit including the food court operators, the Z Pieca Rodem bakery, and the broader food-and-beverage programming complete the property’s convenience-and-entertainment programming.

The catchment combines the dense Bytom residential demographic of approximately 165,000 urban residents with the broader Upper Silesian Metropolis concentration of approximately 2.2 million residents across the Katowice-anchored conurbation and the cross-regional traffic flowing through the principal Bytom arterial corridor connecting to Katowice and the broader Silesian transport grid. Direct accessibility includes the property’s positioning at the principal Bytom regional retail corridor serving the broader Bytom public transport network, the dedicated parking infrastructure handling the regional motorised demand, and the property’s integration into the broader Silesian metropolitan retail register dominated by central retail flagships across the conurbation.

EPP operates M1 Bytom within its broader 12-property M1 and Power Park portfolio totalling approximately 470,000 sqm of GLA acquired from the Chariot Top Group consortium in three tranches between January 2018 and March 2021. M1 Bytom formed part of the Tranche 2 acquisition (€222.5 million, June 2019) alongside M1 Częstochowa, Radom, M1 Poznań, and three Power Parks totalling 184,000 sqm of combined GLA. The EPP master lease succeeded the Metro AG management mandate on May 1, 2024 with the network registering 99.3 percent occupancy at that transition point and approximately 20 percent electricity consumption savings achieved across the M1 network between 2018 and 2022 supporting the broader BREEAM environmental certification. The asset’s commercial role within the Polish retail map is the principal Bytom regional ATAC-anchored mid-tier destination within the Upper Silesian conurbation, complementing rather than competing with the larger 86,000-sqm Silesia City Centre central Katowice flagship, the 73,000-sqm M1 Zabrze adjacent EPP-managed regional, and the 35,348-sqm Atrium Plejada Bytom sister centre.