Platan

Platan Zabrze is one of the principal Silesian regional shopping centres at ul. Wolności 16 in central Zabrze, opened in the third quarter of 2003 with the original format substantially expanded across 2014 and 2018 to the current 40,500-sqm shopping centre and adjacent retail park format spanning approximately 89 to 120 retail and service units anchored by the Auchan hypermarket flagship. The property has been owned by NEPI Rockcastle since the 2016 acquisition from TRIUVA (formerly IVG) for €51.8 million for the original 25,336-sqm format, with the subsequent 11,000-sqm expansion programme completed in 2018 extending the format to the contemporary scale.

The format combines the Auchan hypermarket grocery anchor with the contemporary Polish vertical fashion register featuring the LPP Group brands Reserved, House, Cropp, and Sinsay alongside the broader fashion offer. The Go Sport athletic flagship, the RTV Euro AGD consumer electronics anchor, the CCC and Deichmann footwear positions, the Carry and Centro fashion specialty operators, the Sephora premium beauty flagship, the Vision Express optical position, the Rossmann pharmacy, and the Big Star, Diverse, Orsay, and Camaieu fashion register define the broader fashion-and-services offer. The Planet Cinema 6-screen multiplex with 700-plus seats and the dedicated VIP section opened in late 2018 occupying 2,000 sqm at the +1 level, the food court operators with the catering-and-restaurant positions, and the dedicated fitness recreation area complete the property’s broader entertainment programming.

The catchment combines the dense Zabrze residential demographic of approximately 170,000 urban residents with the broader Upper Silesian Metropolis concentration of approximately 914,000 residents within the 20-minute drive radius and the broader Katowice urban area concentration of approximately 2.2 million residents flowing through the principal central Silesian transport grid. Direct accessibility includes the property’s positioning at the principal central Zabrze retail corridor with extensive free parking infrastructure, the integration with the adjacent retail park forming a combined retail destination, the proximity to the broader Silesian motorway corridor, and the dedicated transport links serving the daily approximately 4 million annual visitor footfall combined across the centre and adjacent retail park.

NEPI Rockcastle coordinates the property management of Platan within its broader Polish retail portfolio following the 2016 acquisition from TRIUVA, with Cushman & Wakefield advising on the original transaction at the 7.1 percent yield benchmark. The 2018 expansion programme led by CFE Polska as general contractor added the second-storey new building with the cinema, food court, and fitness positions and approximately 30 new retail units, increasing the store count from approximately 75 to 120 and extending the GLA from the original 25,336 sqm to approximately 42,000 sqm. The asset’s commercial role within the Polish retail map is the dominant central Zabrze regional Auchan-anchored destination at near 100 percent occupancy, complementing rather than competing with the larger 86,000-sqm Silesia City Centre central Katowice marquee, the 73,000-sqm M1 Zabrze adjacent EPP-managed regional, the 35,892-sqm M1 Bytom EPP regional, the 40,800-sqm G City Plejada Bytom regional, and the broader Upper Silesian metropolitan retail register.