The premises in Panattoni Park Ostrov North have been taken over by the new tenant Conec Elektronische Bauelemente, a sister company of Amphenol Tuchel Industrial. Amphenol has been operating in Ostrava for almost 30 years, and this year it found new production premises in this area. The entire building has an area of 20,000 square meters and, in addition to the companies Amphenol and Conec, part of it, specifically one quarter, is used by the Kokiska online store. The construction of the hall with a number of sustainable elements on the former brownfield site of the Škoda Ostrov company was ensured by the developer Panattoni. The project is financed by the Accolade group.
Consultancy Savills currently registers around 1.4 million square meters of industrial space for rent, which are in various stages of construction. It is the most in the history of the industrial market in the Czech Republic. At least 60% of these spaces, i.e. almost 833,000 square meters, are already pre-leased. Most of this pre-leased industrial space is being built for tenants from the manufacturing sector (38%), followed by retail (30%) and logistics (16%). The largest object under construction is a custom-built building for the H&M chain.
The handling equipment manufacturer Jungheinrich ceremoniously opened its new plant in Chomutov. In the future, the company will turn the 37,000 square meter premises, located in Panattoni Park Chomutov North, into a center for the production of trolleys with a retractable column. More than 350 new jobs will be created as part of the EUR 60 million project.
The zooplus online platform and GXO Logistics are expanding the zooplus logistics network with a new fulfillment center. It is located in CTPark Bor and has a total area of 60,000 square meters.
Arete Group's real estate fund focused on income-generating industrial and logistics assets in the Central and Eastern European region has successfully implemented a comprehensive ESG strategy. Arete Industrial was thus included among the so-called "light green funds", which, according to the definition of the European SFDR directive, aim to support the company's policy of permanent sustainability.
What unites Karlovy Vary, South Bohemia, Liberec and Ústí Region from the point of view of industrial real estate developers? It is not the lowest offer and construction activity in the long term, on the contrary. According to the analysis of the real estate consulting company 108 Agency, it is precisely in these four regions that, in relation to their existing volume, the most new warehouse and production spaces should be added in the coming years. In total, consultants in the Czech Republic have mapped development plans, the floor area of which exceeds 6.8 million square meters and are in various stages of approval and preparation - from assessing the impact of projects on the environment, zoning decisions or building permits to the first implementation works. 54% of the planned projects together belong to the trio of developers CTP, Panattoni and Prologis.
One of the leading manufacturers of components for the automotive industry Shape Corp. starts production in a new facility with total area of 36 400 square meters. The industrial complex, which was built by the development company Panattoni, was created on the brownfield site, where used to be coal mines. Shape Corp. moved here from the Borská pole to expand its production capacity. The company is a major employer in the Pilsen region and the new plant will employ up to 700 people.
Developers, tenants and owners of industrial and storage spaces in the Czech Republic are currently making large-scale investments in their own solar power plants. This trend reflects not only the progressive modernization of the energy sector, but also the turning away from dependence on fossil fuels. As part of this innovative wave, many buildings are undergoing complex technological modifications in parallel, aimed at the overall reduction of energy consumption. The largest rooftop solar power plants to date include the Urbanity Campus Tachov area, which announced an installed capacity of 5 MW and an approximate annual production of more than 5,000 MWh of electricity. This is stated by 108 Agency in its new report.
