Czech online food retailer Rohlik.cz opened a new distribution centre in Ostrava last autumn. The warehouse is now fully operational. More than 45,000 households in the Ostrava region shop with Rohlik and further growth of 50 percent is expected. Rohlík is also focusing on expanding its service - since September it has started serving 640 new locations across the country.
Developer Segro has extended the contract with tenant Ikea in its industrial park in Hostivice. The unit serves as a dispensing warehouse for customers who have purchased the Scandinavian chain's goods at a nearby store in Prague's Zličín district. The Ikea outlet warehouse uses an area of 6,720 sqm. Real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield was involved in the lease extension.
Industrial developer CTP has leased 18,000 sqm to Fiege, a European logistics and transportation services provider, in a new industrial building with a total area of 71,000 sqm. The hall is currently under construction at CTPark Žatec.
The Arete Group has recently completed the expansion of the industrial park in Pilsen at Borská pole and handed it over to the tenant, Zásilkovna, for use. The total leasable area owned by Arete Industrial has increased to 172,264 sqm.
After securing the necessary building permits, the Polish 7R Group is about to start construction of its first industrial project in the Czech Republic. The new 7R Park Lavičky warehouse will be built on a strategically located link between Prague and Brno, in close proximity to the D1 motorway. The total investment will exceed CZK 750 million.
VGP is starting the construction of new warehouses in its VGP Park Ústí nad Labem City. Building B is being prepared for the Czech logistics company RTR-Transport a logistika s.r.o.
A new machine capable of automated sorting of up to 13,000 parcels per hour has been put into operation at the sorting centre of the Czech Post, or the Balíkovna in Mošnov. Up to 300,000 parcels can be sorted daily on an area of nearly 30,000 square metres. The storage capacity is up to 1,000 pallet spaces. A total of three hundred employees work in the logistics centre.
CTP has signed three key ten-year leases in its most sustainable industrial park near Prague, comprising more than 60% of a new 32,000 sqm building that will be delivered by the end of Q2 2024 at CTPark Prague North.
The latest survey of the Czech Chamber of Authorized Engineers and Technicians (ČKAIT) showed that the actual length of a building permit or zoning decision in the Czech Republic does not take several years, but for example for apartment buildings the average decision is made in 5 months, the same applies to their building permits. The joint planning and building permit procedure takes half a year, and the median time is only 3 months. The longest permitting process is for tunnel constructions (almost a year), the shortest for warehouses or parking houses (4.5 months) in the case of joint permitting. Almost 1,100 CKAIT members cited non-unified procedures of authorities and building authorities, conflicting requirements for monument protection and the environment, or unresolved property relations as the main problems.
