Shopping Centers Russia Июнь 2019 | Page 89

rolls over, which leads to a very frequent “void” in the room. Experts propose to deal with this void systematically — �irst of all, carefully analyzing the changing tenants’ requests and, perhaps, even changing the shopping centers to their requests, if it is possible. Svetlana Yarova, the Head of the Commercial Property Brokerage Department of RRG Company, says that recently retailers have been adapting their concepts due to the strong in�luence of the economic situation, changes in the structure of demand, including the tangible impact of online shopping. Analysts are observing two global trends, which in some way contradict each other. On the one hand, there is an increase in the area of a number of operators who are inclined to the format of a family department store. Such tenants are now increasingly trying to place on the same site women’s, men’s and children’s line (Zolla, Tvoe, Modis, O’STIN). On the other hand, a number of retail chains, in fact, possibly reduces the area due to the recon�iguration of the sales area and the trading matrix for a speci�ic location and optimization of logistic processes, the expert says. For example, the areas of Eldorado have decreased. IKEA opens the �irst urban format in the shopping center Aviapark and launches small shops and design studios in regional qual- ity projects, for example, in Tyumen. As a rule, says Svet- lana Yarova, tenants now have two or three formats that they use as working, depending on the speci�ic project and speci�ic city, as well as the purpose of opening a store. What is important to tenants? The Tom Tailor clothing brand in Russia, for example, according to the Head of Development Department of TOM TAILOR Russia Elena Sudakova, considers only a shopping centers with an area of GLA from 35 thousand square meters, with the presence of international and federal brands. But there are currently only a limited number of such objects, wherever the brand is not repre- sented. As a result, the reduction of the commissioning of regional and super-regional projects leads to a revision of the strategy and adaptation of formats. “We began to consider a wider range of areas, in particu- lar, area of less than 100 square meters in the presence of a warehouse. For comfortable placement of four lines (Tom Tailor for men and women and Tom Tailor Denim for men and women), we need 180 square meters. By