HIH Invest Real Estate (HIH Invest) has signed a long-term lease agreement with EDEKA Minden-Hannover for the retail property on Hildesheimer Strasse in Goslar. The food retailer will open a modern EDEKA Center with around 3,600 square meters of sales space next Thursday, November 27, 2025 in the former Kaufland area.
With the commissioning of the new EDEKA Center, the existing store with around 1,500 square meters on the opposite side of the street will be closed. All employees received job offers in the new EDEKA Center; in addition, new jobs have been created.
The retail property, which was built in 2016, was vacant last year after the previous tenant Kaufland moved out. With the new lease to EDEKA Minden-Hannover, the area will now be put to sustainable use. The new EDEKA Center is operated by EDEKA Minden-Hannover itself and includes a contemporary store concept with service counters, self-checkouts, scan & go technology as well as a redesigned pre-checkout area with a café and additional shop areas.
“After the withdrawal of the previous tenant, our goal was to maintain the attractiveness of the location and to secure the local supply in the central location of Goslar in the long term. With EDEKA Minden-Hannover, we have been able to gain a reliable partner who is revitalising the property with a modern concept and making a clear commitment to the region,” says Milan-Kristoffer Otte, Head of Asset Management Retail & Logistics at HIH Invest Real Estate.
The EDEKA store opposite, run by businessman Tim Plöger, will be closed with the opening of the new EDEKA Center. In the future, Plöger will concentrate on its store in Breite Straße in Goslar. “Our customers will meet many familiar faces in the new store. We have also expanded the team and created additional jobs,” explains Dominik Lampe, Sales Manager of EDEKA Minden-Hannover.
The property is part of the open-ended special AIF “HIH Perspektive Einzelhandel: Fokus Nahversorgung”. The fund’s portfolio comprises 26 properties with real estate assets of around EUR 520 million. The allocation consists of retail parks and local shopping centres with a retail use of more than 80 per cent in locations with easy transport links in districts or suburbs. Currently, retail usage is over 90 percent across all portfolios. For the Core and Core Plus risk profile, economically stable German locations are an option.
