Fresh impetus at all levels
Adlershof Projekt brings additional building areas to market
“As a high-tech location, Adlershof is constantly gaining in attraction and will maintain a dynamic growth in the future,“ Ute Hübener is confident. “Making sure this can happen on a safe and solid ground is our contribution here at Adlershof Projekt GmbH.“
Hübener is the Head of Marketing and Sales of the development agency and trustee of the Federal State of Berlin charged with the acquisition and marketing of vacant and newly available building areas at the location. “Aside from the marketing of brand new properties, finding re-users for newly vacant properties has generally not been a problem for us,” she explains, referring to the examples of Soltecture and Solon, two companies that have fallen prey to the photovoltaics crisis, “which upset us a great deal.”
Attracted by the advantages and magnetism of the location, IT service provider ATOS moved from Berlin‘s Siemensstadt district to Adlershof and has meanwhile taken up operations in the buildings formerly used by Solon. “Solon‘s modern buildings went well with ATOS‘s utilisation concept,” says Karen Koske of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG who accompanied the relocation process. Similarly, the industrial hall formerly occupied by Soltecture has seen a change of owner. Charged with the object‘s asset management, BEOS AG conducts the leasing of the property to different users. “Demand is high,” says Laura Busse, the responsible Project Manager at BEOS. „We see a sufficient number of potential clients specifically interested in moving to Adlershof.”
According to Ute Hübener, the former Schöneweide railway yard, known as “Gleislinse”, figures prominently among the high-tech location‘s potential expansion areas, allowing for a northward extension of the present premises. In cooperation with Deutsche Bahn AG, on a total area of 40 hectares plots and properties of different sizes and usage profiles are processed before being tendered by Deutsche Bahn from 2016. In addition to the creation of new streets and squares, the “Betriebsbahnhof Schöneweide” run by S-Bahn Berlin GmbH will receive an entrance to the West, thus being developed into a “second S-Bahn station for Adlershof‘s residents”, explains Wolfgang Stahnke of Deutsche Bahn AG. Moreover, the Schöneweide S-Bahn station is to be extended into a local railway station, further speeding up the railway connection to both the BER airport and Berlin‘s city centre. These new developments at “Adlershof-Johannisthal”, as the “Gleislinse” will be called in the future, will create a production-oriented commercial area adding to Adlershof‘s overall spectrum, says Stahnke, likening the new location to “an industrial workbench within the City of Science, Economy and Media.”
Investors with a demand for smaller spaces will strike gold on the former factory premises of “Medizinischer Gerätebau Berlin” on Segelfliegerdamm, an area offering a range of small properties of varying layouts. Prospectively, there will be yet another highlight to the northwest of the former Johannisthal airport: lying waste, the former “Kühlautomat” factory premises, an area of approximately 210,000 square metres in size, awaits being rediscovered and put to productive use. Talks with the inheritors of the property are underway. “The good news is: something is cooking up there,” says Ute Hübener, excited.
By Klaus Oberzig for Adlershof Special