The article comprises the analysis and the vision on the development of the large-scale retail real estate in Latvia. This is an extended research version. Last year the results were presented on the Annual International scientific conference „Whither our Economies” in Vilnius. The authors focus their attention on the large-scale shopping centers that are presented by over 360 thousand sq.m of gross leasable area and planned to be a little less than doubled up to 2015. The target is to analyze the target audience and business scope, therefore the authors decide on the standardization of the shopping centers as the objects of the research, the spatial planning concept for the retail real estate within the theoretical and practical scope.