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Current vacancy rate at prime quality premises
is circa 10%.
For owning vs. Leasing preferences, the western desire to own indicates
both greater cash resources and a willingness to make long-term capital
investments. Local companies tend to be cash poor, more hesitant to invest,
and more diversified so as to mitigate the considerable risks inherent
to the environment. Over 80% of all warehouses are non-cooled, suitable
for storage of consumer goods that do not require cooling; around 10%
of warehouses are equipped with refrigerators, and around 7% are freezers.
DEMAND
Typical ceiling height for warehouses is 6-8 meters. Most warehouses are
located along the railways in the industrial districts of Kyiv.This is
a function of the railways having been the primary and best developed
form of transportation under the Soviet System. The areas of the greatest
concentration are near railroad joints in Rybalsky Ostriv (Fisher's Island),
Kurenivka, Chokolivka, Darnytsia, Sviatoshin, Zhuliany and areas outside
city border such as Vyshneve and Brovary.
Despite the railways focus, 70% of Kyiv warehouses have good access to
main highways. There are 3 main highways going into Kyiv, including M17
(from Poland), and M20 (from St. Petersburg to Odessa). Currently, the
most heavily used road is M17, as this is the road that most trcuks coming
in from the West use. The ring road around Kyiv is of particular importance
for warehouses in Kyiv.
The ring road is part of highway A255, which circumvents the western part
of Kyiv and intersets both M17 and M20. Scania's green-field warehouse
is on the ring road just North of M20.c
TREND FORECAST
The Colliers warehouse survey concluded that among multinationals active
in Kyiv storage space requirements average under 1400 m2 per company.
This resulted in combined demand among surveyed companies of 53,000 m2
in 1997.
The main users of industrial space include companies specializing in furniture,
consumer goods, construction materials, electronics, food and beverage
products, etc. Demand along the large companies is the strongest for prime
quiality warehouses, specifically for specialized warehousing space.
Take-up by interviewed companies is expected to reach approximately 57,000
m2 in 1999. As multinational companies expand into other cities, new hubs
will be required in other main areas, such as Dnipropetrivsk, Donetsk,
Kharkiv, Crimea, and Lviv. In Kyiv the areas that will attract the major
developments will be those along the ring road, M17, and M20 roads.
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