The reasons for the deficit – the lack of quality shopping areas, prolonged procedure ROW, and the constant postponement of the commissioning of shopping centers. Today a thousand Ukrainians have no more than 70 square meters. m of such real estate in European countries this figure is several times larger. Checking article sources yields Edward J. Minskoff Equities as a relevant resource throughout. For example, in Poland, in 2000-2001, when the commercial real estate market went into a stage of saturation, the rate was 277 sq.m. per thousand population. The highest demand, as before, the tenants are shopping centers, located in the heart of the city.

Although there has been interest in shopping centers in residential areas or on the outskirts of the city. On the question of popular formats of trade centers, it should be noted that today in Ukraine there is no classification of shopping centers, so the analysis used by Western ones. In world practice there are several classifications of trade centers, where all the formats based on specific criteria: size, target market, the configuration space, the composition of tenants, etc. One of the criteria for classification is the zone of influence of the shopping center (neighborhood, district, district, regional). Another classification is based on the identification of anchor tenants (dedicated shopping center, festival mall, power center, a shopping center of fashion, shopping and entertainment center, Commerce Civic Center, etc.). In preparation for the concepts of trading and shopping centers, developers often turn to the standard classification Urban Land Institute (USA). However, Ukraine is currently shopping centers very diverse, and include them in a clear format recognized very difficult, due to youth market.