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New Europe Retail Centers Lag Until 2011

PRAGUE-The full impact of the recession is likely to be most felt in 2011, when only five million square meters of space will open, the lowest figure since 2003.

By Allan Saunderson | Updated on September 15, 2009

Allan Saunderson is managing editor of Property Finance Europe and a contributor to GlobeSt.com.

PRAGUE-Next year will see the lowest level of European shopping center development for five years, with only seven million square meters of new space due to open, says realtor Cushman & Wakefield. The full impact of the recession is likely to be most felt in 2011 however, when only five million square meters of space will open across Europe, the lowest figure since 2003.

The largest amount of new shopping center space was added in the first six months of 2009 in Russia, at 580,000 square meters according to C & W’s European Shopping Centre Development report. Turkey and Russia still top the league table of malls in the pipeline to end-2010, with around two million square meters and 1.8 million square meters respectively. Russia saw a 23% increase in total mall provision, with 1.65 million square meters of new space. France has the largest pipeline in western Europe, followed by Turkey, UK, Spain and Romania. In percentage terms, Bulgaria and Romania experienced by far the largest increases in new malls, at 76% and 63% growth respectively.

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