Irish clothing chain Primark has expanded the space it leases in CTPark Bor, the largest Czech industrial park. CTP, the developer and owner of the park, recently finished another warehouse for Primark, which will be fully automated, incorporating the latest robotic technology. In total, Primark leases approximately 80,000 m2 of A-class warehouse space in CTPark Bor.
AUTODOC, Europe's leading online retailer for vehicle parts and accessories, has chosen Panattoni Park Cheb South, which is being built jointly by developer Panattoni, for its expansion into the Czech market. The 31,500 sqm automated distribution centre will offer excellent transport links thanks to its geographical location, as well as key elements of a state-of-the-art green industrial property, as it will expand on a building which was the first project in the Czech Republic to be awarded an ‘Outstanding’ sustainability rating and a record score of 90.68% according to the BREEAM global sustainability certification.
PÚ CLC, a company belonging to the global Mitsui-Soko Group, operates a multi-client warehouse in Prague near Prague. In Prologis Park, it provides services for approximately 25 clients on an area of more than 13,000 square meters. One of the most important is Noark Electric Europe, for which PST CLC provides comprehensive logistics and warehousing outsourcing.
The development company Panattoni is expanding the offer of industrial premises in the Rychnov region. Two new buildings will be built gradually in Panattoni Park Týniště. The first of these will offer 16,000 square meters of leasable area, and half of it will be occupied by the first tenants in early summer 2022. The transport and logistics company C.S.Cargo will start operating the warehouse of the Czech brand of household appliances Concept here.
Industrial zone developer Panattoni has successfully revitalised another brownfield site for investment group Accolade. They have returned industry to a location where it has historically thrived, the former Kavalier glassworks site in Hostomice, in the Teplice region. The first tenant of the new industrial zone named Panattoni Park Teplice South is the Czech sanitary equipment retailer Sanitino. It has started operating a distribution centre, which will gradually serve the whole of Europe. The transformation of a brownfield, with more than a century of glass history, into a modern zone for light manufacturing and distribution of goods, with an investment of more than half a billion, is therefore continuing successfully.
For several decades, trolleybuses for the entire eastern block were manufactured here. Then, for a long time, the site became one of the largest brownfields in the Czech Republic. And today, the construction of the first hall of the modern Panattoni Park Ostrov North was inaugurated here. Panattoni is constructing the first 20,000 m2 hall, part of which will be occupied directly by Amphenol Tuchel Industrial, the world's leading manufacturer of electrical connectors, smart card readers and cable harnesses.
Rising prices of building materials and energy, rising land prices for new construction, a lack of key components to ensure continuous production or a lack of manpower are plaguing the industrial sector in the Czech Republic. The solution in the area of availability of industrial real estate seems to be the optimization of operation and the increasingly frequent investments of many companies in the automation of routine activities.
The European industrial developer CTP has obtained all the necessary permits for the completion of two industrial halls on the outskirts of Hradec Králové. Their construction can start again in November. The new premises, with a total size of almost 13,000 square meters, will be completed in the first half of next year so that the first tenants can move into them in the spring.
