Rudower Chaussee: a good mix
New projects and arrivals show just how attractive Adlershof’s high street has become
When it was announced that project developer Corpus Sireo would be building a new administrative building for the financial services company Allianz on Rudower Chaussee, with 60,000 square metres of rentable office space, it created quite a stir. As Ute Hübener, Adlershof Projekt GmbH’s Sales and Marketing Manager, explains: “In 2019, over 2,000 Allianz employees will move from the Treptowers close to Adlershof S-Bahn station. This name makes Adlershof as a whole even more attractive as an office location.”
Nonetheless, the spectacular decision by Allianz to make the move is just one facet of the continued upward trend of Adlershof’s main thoroughfare. “Rudower Chaussee”, says Hübener, “is now taking on the function that was intended for it in the first place – it forms a link between research, commerce and housing, and as such, it makes a major contribution to the increasing urbanisation of Adlershof.”
The oft-cited mix of commerce and housing is indeed now being felt throughout the area. One example is the Groß-Berliner Damm, on one side of which large-scale industrial producers such as Freudenberg have set up, while the “Wohnen am Campus” development continues to grow just opposite.
153 student apartments were completed in summer 2016 in the “Medienfenster” on Rudower Chaussee, near the S-Bahn station. The row of outlets on the ground floor increases the spectrum of local shops, which now includes a laundrette and a bike shop, for example. In autumn 2017, an Asian restaurant overlooking the oak grove will be added to the mix in NUBIS, Project Immobilien’s new office building next to the S-Bahn station. This project will include a total of 17,400 square metres of office space in three construction phases. ID&A Immobilien is also getting ready for two further construction phases for its “Air Campus” project. As part of this development, the existing office building will be extended into both Rudower Chaussee and Straße am Studio, creating a total of 6,600 square metres of new office and retail space.
Nearby, Europa-Center AG has completed the third construction phase of its office complex. A division of Deutsche Bahn that formerly had its offices in the business sector on Groß-Berliner Damm has become the complex’s anchor tenant. Europa-Center AG is also planning a small-scale office building of a high architectural standard in keeping with its location next to the Adlershof Forum. The firm has also built a car park, which is another sign of Adlershof’s growth as an urban district, because finding a place to park on the street is no longer as easy as it was in earlier years.
There is plenty going on at the western end of Rudower Chaussee, too. One visible sign of this is the 25-metre solar pylon on the plot where the Porsche centre is being built. A subsidiary of Hochtief is building the new Berlin-Brandenburg State Laboratory, due to be finished by 2019, on the corner of Wegedornstraße. At the junction with James-Franck-Straße, the “Campus am Oktogon” is growing steadily, an immobilien-experten-ag project for what are known as OfficeLabs – combinations of office and production spaces.
Together with non-profit building cooperative Steglitz eG, project developer Kondor Wessels has laid the foundation stone for the VivaCity project, which is a shining example of the new Adlershof mix. On Eisenhutweg, the continuation of Rudower Chaussee, an innovative ensemble is appearing. As well as the cooperative housing, it includes a kindergarten, a nursing home, sheltered housing, and a day-care centre. There will also be a supermarket and bakery, meeting a heartfelt wish of the residents of the neighbouring area.
The most spectacular new construction, though, will take shape on the western side of the S-Bahn station. In spring 2016, the Adlershof Projekt carried out a tendering process there for what is a prime plot of almost 24,000 square metres; a particular highlight is the planned 54-metre tower. Interest from investors was particularly high. As UteHübener was delighted to note: “Ten years ago, we wouldn’t even have imagined we might get ten applications for this plot.” Here, an OfficeLab campus, a modern congress and conference hotel with a rooftop bar and function rooms for up to 1,000 delegates, as well as a gym, restaurants and shops are developed. Already one thing is palpable: In the years to come, Rudower Chaussee will change its appearance drastically yet again.
by Emil Schweizer