Skende Shopping

Skende Shopping is one of the principal Lublin regional shopping centres at Al. Spółdzielczości Pracy 88 in the eastern Lublin district adjacent to the IKEA Lublin store, opened on November 17, 2017 with the 57,500-sqm regional format combining 24,000 sqm of dedicated Skende Shopping retail across approximately 70 stores plus the integrated 33,500-sqm IKEA Lublin store as the principal anchor. The property is owned and managed by Ingka Centres, the IKEA-affiliated retail real estate operator within the broader IKEA Group corporate parent, as the largest commercial complex in eastern Poland.

The format combines the integrated IKEA Lublin store grocery and home-furnishing anchor at 33,500 sqm with the principal Polish vertical fashion register featuring H&M, Reserved, Cropp, House, Sinsay, and the broader LPP Group fashion presence. The TK Maxx off-price flagship, the Intermarché grocery position as the first Lublin Intermarché location, the Smyk children’s specialty, the RTV Euro AGD consumer electronics anchor, the Black Red White and VOX Meble furniture flagships, the Martes Sport athletic position, the Deichmann and Wojas footwear positions, the Pepco home-goods register, the CCC, Carry, Lee Wrangler, and Rossmann tenant mix, the Home&You and Esotiq specialty, the Świat Książki bookseller, and the Flying Tiger Copenhagen lifestyle position complete the broader retail-and-services programming distinctive to the IKEA-anchored regional category. The 14,000-sqm convenience zone, the 10,000-sqm strip mall configuration, the dedicated PUMPTRUCK regional family attraction, and the unique Lublin meeting-place positioning support the family-and-leisure programming.

The catchment combines the dense eastern Lublin residential demographic with the broader Lublin Voivodeship metropolitan concentration of approximately 340,000 city residents and 2.1 million regional residents and the cross-regional traffic flowing through the principal eastern Lublin arterial network connecting to the broader S17 expressway corridor toward the Ukrainian border crossing. Direct accessibility includes the property’s positioning at the principal eastern Lublin retail corridor, the dedicated 2,000 parking spaces shared with the IKEA Lublin store, the new bicycle lanes and dedicated city-bike station adjacent to the property, the bike-friendly programming, and the broader integration into the Lublin metropolitan retail register.

Ingka Centres coordinates the property management of Skende Shopping within its broader European IKEA-anchored retail portfolio operating across 49 properties in 15 countries. The asset’s commercial role within the Polish retail map is the principal and only IKEA-anchored super-regional destination in eastern Poland establishing the IKEA-plus-shopping-centre format within the Lublin Voivodeship retail register, complementing rather than competing with the 38,000-sqm VIVO! Lublin central Lublin Immofinanz-owned regional, the 26,100-sqm Lublin Plaza Klépierre central Lublin marquee, and the broader Lublin Voivodeship metropolitan retail register.