VGP EPRA property tour to Berlin Ludwigsfelde
We visited Lidl and Zalando warehouse on the VGP Berlin park Ludwigsfelde (216k sqm). These are standard buildings of 12m high and 7 ton floor. Interestingly, there is a lot of manual labour, with an estimated 80% of labour coming out of Poland. The Polish border is 100km away and workers stay the week nearby in local housing to go back home for the weekend. The Ludwigsfelde site is about 20km out of Berlin on the A10, a big industrial artery (Tesla, etc…). VGP bought the land in 2014 and is still developing land there. See map of the VGP Berlin park below. Most tenants appear e-commerce rela...