Sell retail in Dortmund.

A retail unit depends on location, visibility and footfall. Frontage width, step-free access, layout and neighbouring shops are decisive.

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Dortmund's retail leasing market is anchored by Westenhellweg, the city's 1A pedestrian high street and one of the highest-footfall retail streets in all of Germany, recording around 14,000 pedestrians per hour at peak. It is the most expensive retail pitch in Westphalia and ranks among Germany's top-ten high streets by rent, with prime rents around 225 EUR/sqm. Through 2025 Dortmund's shopping streets posted record-high pedestrian traffic, underscoring a genuine recovery in physical retail demand on the prime pitch even as the broader sector remains structurally challenged. Demand on Westenhellweg is led by international vertical retailers, above all Inditex, which in 2025 carried out the largest re-tenanting on the high street and inside the adjacent Thier-Galerie since the centre opened, adding more than 3,000 sqm of Bershka, Pull & Bear and Stradivarius space. H&M, Peek & Cloppenburg and Saturn remain core anchors. The Thier-Galerie, a ~31,000 sqm GLA mall with around 160 shops and restaurants directly on Westenhellweg, complements rather than competes with the street and is being actively asset-managed toward a stronger international and lifestyle mix. The market is sharply polarised. While Westenhellweg and the Thier-Galerie are robust, the eastern Ostenhellweg and peripheral neighbourhood high streets show softer footfall, a value-skewed tenant mix and pockets of vacancy. Redevelopment of large vacated city-centre boxes, including former Conrad and Mayersche space, is modernising prime supply and creating new flagship and mixed-use opportunities on the best pitch. The reduction of dine-in VAT to 7% from 1 January 2026 further supports food-and-beverage and experiential concepts that increasingly drive footfall. For occupiers and owners, the opportunity is to secure scarce Westenhellweg frontage backed by resilient, record-level footfall, to deploy F&B and experiential formats benefiting from the VAT cut, and to reposition redeveloped boxes for modern flagship demand. The principal risks are the continued online and value shift pressuring secondary pitches, consumer-spending caution across the Ruhr capping rental growth beyond the 1A core, and the cost of repositioning obsolete large-format space. Net, Dortmund offers a strong, defensible prime high-street story set against a clearly bifurcating secondary market.

thier galerie gla: 31,000 sqm GLA (Thier-Galerie); thier galerie units: 160 shops and restaurants (Thier-Galerie); peak footfall hourly: 14,000 pedestrians/hour at peak (Westenhellweg); prime rent high street: 225 EUR/sqm/month (Westenhellweg).