Retail park

Shopping Park, also shopping center, retail park, and similar is called a commercial area that is provided for operating branches of trade.

Basics

Shopping farms concentrate retail stores, such as hypermarkets ( mainly food and beverages), department stores, supermarkets (large businesses ), C & C markets, department stores, construction, furniture or garden centers, as well as shopping centers ( malls in the narrower sense, that of a single operator to Business Premises Rent offered ) with service providers in different industries. In addition to efficiency by spatial proximity of different offers, such as for food, clothing, lining - for the customer and as a synergy for providers - is that after even a modern need for an attractive shopping experience, such as gastronomy, wellness or venues for a stay after business hours. Special forms are about industry-specific market centers.

Shopping Parks, individual, jointly operated shopping center to be ( a business organization, functional or economic structural unit form ), but also different companies about the parking infrastructure ( parking lots, underground garages ), additions, and other open areas share in common (several commercial establishments, the spatial in a stand close relationship to each other).

The designation of a commercial area for commercial buildings commercial premises used in the spatial planning of communities to intervene in regulating the business landscape. Often restrictions on the size of the retail space in order to preserve the economic balance in space, and to comply with the stipulations of the local community development and regional development programs - In addition to the strictly necessary supplemented by a support as good transport links and extensive parking space comprises - especially in rural areas. The dedication falls under urban land: it is to manage traffic and the city has grown and preserve townscape and urban sprawl by preventing concentration. Therefore, retail parks are a typical phenomenon of suburbanization, the bacon belt of a city or town. In addition, stand behind concrete economic policy intentions that protect the small -scale structure of predatory pricing by large retailers, but create locally based jobs in the structure development.

National

Austria

The land use plan and the development plan, in which the development and use is determined is set out in the Building and Zoning laws of the countries. Here is the shopping park - from a certain size - especially shopping center, or as a designation for commercial area, called area for commercial establishments and similar. Such grounds are especially provided for non-local demand ( regional central places ), and are generally quite strict regulations. Not under the term usually fall dealerships about exclusively for vehicles, machinery, building materials, fuel trading; Nurseries, garden centers; Warehouse with no sales, partly salesrooms, which are directly connected to the production ( showrooms ); Fairs and markets. For the size of the sales area in general is based on, but partly also miteingerechnet all ancillary facilities such as parking lots and side bearings.

Country -specific regulations:

• Burgenland controls "for the non-local demand certain commercial establishments" with sales area of ​​more than 800 m² (goods of various commodity groups ) or 500 m ( food and other goods of daily use ) in particular: they are subject to approval and only in the state capital, the district capitals, places ( determined taking into account the specific economic, supply and tourism function) over 2,000 inhabitants or in places of purchase. The land itself is dedicated as commercial, industrial, or mixed development area. ( § 14d Burgenländisches Spatial Planning Act, 1969)
• In Carinthia fall shopping centers over 600 m² with a special dedication to the commercial area as well as in the village, residential, health resort ] ] s, if they are not located in a fixed location and city center. Here are those with food trade ( shopping center of category I, CPB I) and without ( shopping center of category II, CPB II; furniture trade and fuel trade from 2500 m²) distinguished. ( § 8 (7- 8c) Carinthian village Planning Act 1995 - K- GplG )
• Lower Austria allowed commercial establishments in a closed local area to 1,000 m², outside of which only 80 m², in designated center zones ( land - Widmungsart core area ) can cause an additional dedication area for trade body through which there are no restrictions on the sales area or gross floor area. (§ 17 Nope Spatial Planning Act -. ROG 1976)
• In Upper Austria areas are provided for commercial buildings for commercial enterprises, with a total sales area of ​​over 300 m², in designated core areas of 1,500 m² is. They may only be established in areas with special dedications in the land, and " their total sales area must determined in the zoning plan maximum extent not exceed. " Crossings, the area the customary size may be restricted by the planning authority as to a certain industry offer. (§ 21 ( 2) 10, § 23 (3 ), § 24 Upper Austrian Regional Planning Act 1994 -. ROG Upper Austria. )
• Salzburg has two more specific class: Here retail uses falling under operating area (BE) or commercial area (GG), structures of more than 300 m² of retail space are only in specially marked zonation possible ( areas of land for retail uses in operational or commercial areas ); Trade large farms subject at all special provisions and dedication ( area for trade large farms HG ), but are also in the advanced residential or commercial area is permitted ( § 30 ( 1) 10, § 32, § 39 ( 3) Spatial Planning Act 1998 - ROG )
• The Styria defines two categories fixed: shopping centers 1 (the lead in their assortment food) and shopping centers 2 ( no food). They are from 800 m², and are only in the core city of Graz, the regional centers and sub-regional supply centers with more than 5,000 inhabitants admitted. Shopping Centers 1 must not be more than 100 m from the nuclear area removed. " Adequate service level " by public transport (PT ) is a prerequisite. (§ 30 (1 ) 6, § 31 ( 5) Styrian Spatial Planning Act 2010 - Strog )
• In Tirol trading companies are allowed with a customer area of ​​more than 300 m² except in core zones only on special areas for commercial establishments, principally planned shopping centers in the strict sense only on special areas for shopping centers, and through special regional planning programs for shopping centers in the regional spatial order. The only exceptions are commercial establishments for motor vehicles and accessories. A distinction is made farm types A ( small containers, such as food, drug supplies, etc. ) and B ( transported away using only a motor vehicle ). The total allowable size depends on the type and number of inhabitants of the site, and is between 600 and 2000 m in type B only in Innsbruck. ( § 48a, § 49, § 8 Tyrolean Regional Planning Act 2011)
• Vorarlberg treated the case as a special area for shopping center or other commercial establishments that are allowed in the core area or for a country floor plan in the community concerned. This can also be limited to goods of daily or not daily necessities, and apply for the former from 600, temptation from 1500 m². (§ 15, 15a Spatial Planning Act )
• In Vienna, a construction project is a shopping mall over 2500 m² only on residential, mixed construction or industrial area or shopping streets, according to the development plan possible and can " to ensure the spatial functional near relations, the contemporary needs and the social structure of the population " or " interactions are restricted to other shopping centers and shopping streets as well as on the local supply " in size or specialty stores. ( § 7c, § 5 ( 4) c building code for Vienna)