IN Brief:
- Pasaż Łańcucki will provide 11,200m² of retail space on a 3.5-hectare site in south-east Poland.
- Refield is delivering the scheme turnkey for Bispol Invest, with JT Konkurent appointed as general contractor.
- Nearly 90% of space is already leased ahead of the planned September 2027 opening.
Refield has started development of Pasaż Łańcucki, an 11,200m² retail park in Łańcut, south-east Poland, with the completed scheme scheduled to open in September 2027. The project occupies a 3.5-hectare site on ul. Przemysłowa beside Regional Road No. 877 and is being delivered for local company Bispol Invest, with JT Konkurent acting as general contractor.
The development has moved into construction with close to 90% of its space already leased. Lidl will provide the grocery anchor and its store is already under construction, while the confirmed tenant list also includes CCC, Shock Price, Rossmann, Action, Martes Sport, Sinsay, Tedi, Smyk, Hebe, and FlyPark.
Refield is responsible for the wider project on a turnkey basis. Its remit covers design, administrative decisions and approvals, leasing, coordination and supervision of construction, and preparation of the completed park for opening, placing the developer across both the commercial and physical delivery programme.
That integrated role matters once a multi-let retail project reaches construction. Shell-and-core works, external areas, utilities, tenant requirements, fit-outs, and final commissioning have to converge on the same opening date, while design information continues to pass between developer, contractor, consultants, and occupiers as individual units move towards handover.
Pasaż Łańcucki will serve a city of around 18,000 residents and a wider county population of approximately 80,000. Refield’s catchment analysis estimates that 23,600 people live within a 10-minute drive, rising to 44,200 within 15 minutes and almost 370,000 within 30 minutes, reflecting the site’s position around 20km from Rzeszów.
The transport layout follows that regional catchment. More than 430 customer parking spaces are planned, together with three independent access points, while the site sits beside a roundabout and Regional Road No. 877. Those features support the commercial case, but they also give the civil and external-works packages a substantial role in construction because roads, junction interfaces, drainage, lighting, pedestrian routes, parking, landscaping, and servicing areas all have to be completed around the retail buildings.
Fabian Eryk Barbarowicz, chief executive of Refield, said the location beside an important transport route and roundabout was one of the scheme’s principal strengths. He also pointed to the wide catchment beyond Łańcut itself, with the project intended to serve neighbouring towns and villages as well as part of the Rzeszów metropolitan area.
The near-90% leasing position gives the construction team comparatively early visibility of the occupier mix. That can reduce some of the uncertainty associated with speculative retail construction because incoming tenant requirements can be incorporated while the main works are still progressing, rather than forcing extensive late changes once shell units are complete.
A well-leased scheme creates its own programme pressure, however. Grocery, fashion, health and beauty, discount retail, sports, children’s retail, and leisure operators can require different power loads, ventilation, drainage, servicing, shopfront, signage, fire-safety, and fit-out arrangements. The basic units may be repetitive, but their final technical interfaces are not.
Lidl’s anchor unit adds another layer because grocery stores typically carry refrigeration, food servicing, delivery, electrical, and back-of-house requirements that differ from standard comparison-retail units. Coordinating that store alongside smaller tenants means the shared infrastructure has to accommodate the highest-demand occupiers without delaying the simpler units around it.
The September 2027 opening also places a fixed commercial date against the construction programme. Retail schemes tend to concentrate tenant fit-out, testing, commissioning, signage, landscaping, road finishing, and snagging towards the latter stages, when several contractors and occupiers may need access to the same parts of the development at once.
Refield specialises in retail parks and commercial projects in regional Polish cities, and Pasaż Łańcucki follows that model rather than a dense city-centre development. Low-rise retail parks usually avoid the structural complexity of tall buildings, but their efficiency depends heavily on straightforward groundworks, large surfaced areas, reliable utilities, repetitive unit construction, and tightly managed handovers.
With a general contractor appointed, Lidl already building, and most of the available space committed, Pasaż Łańcucki has passed the point where leasing and planning are the only visible measures of progress. The project now has to coordinate a live construction site with an unusually well-developed tenant schedule, making the September 2027 opening dependent on the less glamorous disciplines of interfaces, access, utilities, fit-out sequencing, and completion of more than 430 parking spaces around the buildings.
