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BATO NEWSLETTER MARCH 2017 PAGE 1 of 3 VOLUME 8/ISSUE 3 The Development of Adlershof Founded in 1754, Adlershof was first a tenant farm (Adlershof translates as Eagle's Court), which was transformed into a municipality in 1879. In the late 1880s, industrialization has reached Adlershof when a chemical company settled here first, followed by numerous other companies. The number of inhabitants in Adlershof jumped from 344 in 1880 to 3,346 just ten years later. Another ten years later, the number surpassed 8,000 residents. Adlershof was also the place where the German aviation was born. The first airfiled for engine-powered airplanes was opened here in 1909 and the first flying school and an experimental station opened here. Today, Berlin Adlershof is a renowned Site for Science, Business and Media that expands over an area of 4,2 square kilometres. Adlershof, also known as the City of Science, is Germany´s largest Science and Technology Park and one of the most renowned locations for high-technologies in Germany and is Berlin´s largest Media location. Furthermore, it is one of the 15 largest science parks worldwide and was also internationally recognized with the European "Award of Excellence for Innovative Regions" next to other pioneering cities such as Cambridge, Oxford or Stuttgart, for example. About 17,300 people live in Adlershof today. More than 1,000 companies and organisations and 16 scientific institutions offer ca. 16,000 jobs and have generated over 760 million Euros in revenue in 2015. The Science and Technology Park is home to 510 companies with 6,134 employees, 10 non-university research institutions with nearly 1,700 people working here and six institutes of the Humboldt University Berlin with over 1,000 employees and more than 6,500 students. The Media City comprises over 140 companies with nearly 2,000 working here. Berlin-Adlershof: The Science, Business and Media Hub We would like to resume our newsletter series in which we introduce Berlin´s particularly interesting neighbourhoods. Today, we´d like to put the spotlight on Berlin-Adlershof, the locality in the borough Treptow- Köpenick expanding over an area of 6.11 square kilometres in the south-east of Berlin. The success story of Adlershof began as an urban development programme (Städtebauliches Entwicklungsprojekt Johannisthal/ Adlershof) about twenty years ago. The Senate for Urban Development and Environment had the vision of creating a "city within the city", a multi-purpose urban district for workng and living. While public authorities were the main investor in this area in the beginning, in the meanwhile, private investors dominate the boost of Adlershof, in particular after a good transport infrustructure has been developed by the munincipality. What else is attracting investors to Adlershof? We have figured it out below. Image Rights: Adlershof Projekt GmbH / Foto: D. Laubner Berlin-Adlershof
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The Development of Adlershof
Founded in 1754, Adlershof was first a tenant farm (Adlershof translates as Eagle's Court), which was transformed into a municipality in 1879. In the late 1880s, industrialization has reached Adlershof when a chemical company settled here first, followed by numerous other companies. The number of inhabitants in Adlershof jumped from 344 in 1880 to 3,346 just ten years later. Another ten years later, the number surpassed 8,000 residents.
Adlershof was also the place where the German aviation was born. The first airfiled for engine-powered airplanes was opened here in 1909 and the first flying school and an experimental station opened here.
Today, Berlin Adlershof is a renowned Site for Science, Business and Media that expands over an area of 4,2 square kilometres. Adlershof, also known as the City of Science, is Germany´s largest Science and Technology Park and one of the most renowned locations for high-technologies in Germany and is Berlin´s
largest Media location. Furthermore, it is one of the 15 largest science parks worldwide and was also internationally recognized with the European "Award of Excellence for Innovative Regions" next to other pioneering cities such as Cambridge, Oxford or Stuttgart, for example.
About 17,300 people live in Adlershof today. More than 1,000 companies and organisations and 16 scientific institutions offer ca. 16,000 jobs and have generated over 760 million Euros in revenue in 2015.
The Science and Technology Park is home to 510 companies with 6,134 employees, 10 non-university research institutions with nearly 1,700 people working here and six institutes of the Humboldt University Berlin with over 1,000 employees and more than 6,500 students.
The Media City comprises over 140 companies with nearly 2,000 working here.
Berlin-Adlershof: The Science, Business and Media Hub
We would like to resume our newsletter series in which we introduce Berlin´s particularly interesting neighbourhoods. Today, we´d like to put the spotlight on Berlin-Adlershof, the locality in the borough Treptow-Köpenick expanding over an area of 6.11 square kilometres in the south-east of Berlin. The success story of Adlershof began as an urban development programme (Städtebauliches Entwicklungsprojekt Johannisthal/Adlershof) about twenty years ago. The Senate for Urban Development and Environment had the vision of creating a "city within the city", a multi-purpose urban district for workng and living. While public authorities were the main investor in this area in the beginning, in the meanwhile, private investors dominate the boost of Adlershof, in particular after a good transport infrustructure has been developed by the munincipality. What else is attracting investors to Adlershof? We have figured it out below.
Image Rights: Adlershof Projekt GmbH / Foto: D. LaubnerBerlin-Adlershof
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The Commercial Businesses and Services sector has 363 companies with 5,150 employees.
There are two startup hubs offering special welcome packs, flexible business space and shared equipment for innovative businesses on the site: The Innovation und Startup Centre Berlin-Adlershof (IGZ) and the OWZ International Startup Centre with a total of ca. 90 companies. The IGZ provides support for new entreprises in various technological fields while the OWZ supports international companies that wish to relocate to Berlin. The Humboldt University Adlershof offers its own Startup Centre for its students - the Spin-Off Zone Adlershof.
The organisation responsible for the operation, development and promotion of the Science and Technology Park Adlershof is the WISTA-Management GmbH, which was founded by State of Berlin in the nineties.
While Adlershof has become a renowned science and commercial location, it is much more than that. Adlershof was developed to become a muli-purpose location that also offers convenience for the local population and a great quality of stay.
Several residential quarters with local amenities have been created in Adlershof. Sports facilities, a health centre, schools, libraries, kitas and children´s playgrounds, shopping places and more.
There are historically grown residential quarters in the north eastern part of Adlershof. New building activity dominates the north west on the former ground of the airfield Johannisthal since 2010.
Adlershof is also a green urban area with a 68 ha. landscape park, Landschaftspark Johannisthal/Adlershof in the centre of the former airfield. The area offers large spaces for further expansions of the Science and Technology Park.
Adlershof´s Transport Infrastructure
The public transport infrastrusture in Adlershof has been developed in accordance with the growing urban character of the area.
The overground train station S-Adlershof has been redeveloped and opened in 2009. The local tram line has been extended by 1,5 km in order to connect the newly established sites and quarters to the transport network.
With five S-Bahn train lines run through S-Adlershof (S8, S85, S9, S45 and S46), three tram lines (Tram 60, 61 and 63) and five bus lines the public transport
network provides excellent links to the Schönefeld airport as well as to Berlin´s inner city and the ring line (via interchanges).
According to public authorities, the transport network can be flexibly adjusted in order to meet the travel needs of the growing local population, 60 % of which use public transport. In fact, a plan for a tram line extension to connect it to the S-Bahn station Schöneweide, which is going to be rebuilt to a proper station) has been submitted to authorities for approval.
The road system in Adlershof has been developed consistently to build a well-linked infrastructure in this area and to connect its newly developed sites and quarters to the main road system. Several main roads have been constructed linking Adlershof to other localities in all directions (the Groß-Berliner Damm, for example, provides connections to the north-west, Rudower Chaussee serves as the main East-West-Connection and the Ernst-Ruska-Ufer runs through the south of Adlershof).
The highway A113, which is tangent to the south-west of Adlershof provides inter-regional connections. The six-lane city highway B96a runs through Adlershof and links it to the airport Schönefeld and the future BER airport in 15 mins drive. Both the A113 and B96a also connect Adlershof to the Berlin city.
While the road netwok is largely complete, adjustments take place as available plots are getting occupied by new businesses, e. g. Wagner-Régeny-Street is planned to be extended towards the north in order to provide better access for the companies which are going to settle on the adjacent building plot.
Image Rights: Adlershof Projekt GmbH / Foto: D. Laubner
Berlin-Adlershof Roads
Further Growth Prospects of Adlershof
Triggered by the activity and investment of public authority, the area has not only become a renowned site for sience and a prosperous business and media location.
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The systematically developed infrastructure in Adlershof and its vicinity to the airport Schönefeld / the future BER provide excellent conditions for more businesses and new residents to come.
In fact, Adlershof is becoming more dense in population and registers growth numbers in terms of new company relocations - not only in the predominant sectors of science and technology.
Recent newcomers are companies as large as the Allanz insurance, which will be moving its 2,000 employees from the more centrally located Treptowers. Other key names in the area will be the Berlin Brandenburg State Laboratory and Porsche´s most modern centre. A division of Deutsche Bahn is already present in Adlershof.
In times when large, modern office spaces are extremely scarce, Adlershof surely has the unique advantage of highly modern office spaces that are also less costly compared to other Berlin locations.
Investors seem to be quite aware of Adlershof´s positioning as an innovative business and high-quality residential location, looking at the high development activity.
The architecture of Adlershof is largely characterised by new building stock as most of the older buildings were replaced by new architecture. Historically monumental constructions were thoroughly renovated and some of them converted. For example, the Great Wind Tunnel and the Spin Wind Tower were renovated as technical momnuments, the former aircraft hangar was converted into a sports hall.
The pipeline of current development programmes includes about ten residential and eight commercial development projects in Adlershof, according to data included in the real estate portal Thomas Daily.
More than 2,500 residential units are being developed or planned. The variety ranges from town houses and city villas, over retirement homes, student apartments and multi-unit dwellings to high tech smart homes.
Over 35% of those units have already been completed.
Commercial development encompasses a construction of more than 380,000 square metres floor area. Mostly office spaces and labs, but also hotels, retail space and others.
Some of the most noteworthy developments are:
• The Sitac Parc near the A113 highway as an additional part of the Science, Business and Media City with the total space of 135,000 sqm.. This is also where the Porsche Centre is being constructed.
• The Allianz building with 60,000 sqm office space in the heart of Adlershof near the train station
• Berlin-Brandenburg State Laboratory (Landeslabor Berlin Brandenburg) on Rudower Chaussee - a building complex with labs, offices spaces, library and more, on the total area of ca. 23,000 sqm.
• A 54-metre high tower with 24,000 sqm space for a modern conference and congress hotel with a rooftop bar, restaurants, a gym and shopping areas, with a total of a with
And that is not all: more land is being planned for building plots such as the area of 45 hectares, located between the stations S-Schöneweise and S-Adlershof. This area is planned for a creation of a new commercial quarter with green spaces, public roads and customized building plots.
It seems that there is no end in sight for the development of Adlershof. Already having been shaped by the activity of the last two decades, it is well possible that Adlershof is going to change yet again.
Please note that the contents of this newsletter have been researched and written according to the best of our knowledge; however they are in no way to be accepted as a legal advice or suggestion. Therefore we exclude any liability.
Sources and References• Images: Adlershof Projekt GmbH / Foto: D. Laubner
• http://www.adlershof.de/daten-fakten/adlershof-in-zahlen/
• Berlin.de, Bezirksamt Treptow-Köpenick: Adlershof
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-Adlershof
• European Award: http://www.pnn.de/brandenburg-berlin/212863/
• Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg: Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner in den Ortsteilen Berlins am 30.06.2016; retrieven from Berlin Open Data (Daten.Berlin.de)
• WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH: Adlershof Special 47, The Berlin mixture: Adlershof´s got it all, Oktober 2016
• Thomas Daily (http://web.thomas-daily.de/core/city)html?cityId=wR2AwDk)
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Shift in Investor Structure in Berlin-Adlershof
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Investment in Mio €: 1991 - 2005
Investment in scientific facilities
Investment by the WISTA-Management GmbH
Investment in infrastructure in the field of development
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Investment in Mio €: 2006-2012
Investment in scientific facilities
Investment by the WISTA-Management GmbH
Investment in infrastructure in the field of development
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Investment in Mio €: 1991 - 2005
Investment in scientific facilities
Investment by the WISTA-Management GmbH
Investment in infrastructure in the field of development
Private investment
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Investment in Mio €: 2006-2012
Investment in scientific facilities
Investment by the WISTA-Management GmbH
Investment in infrastructure in the field of development
Private investment
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Investment in Mio €: 1991 - 2005
Investment in scientific facilities
Investment by the WISTA-Management GmbH
Investment in infrastructure in the field of development
Private investment
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Investment in Mio €: 2006-2012
Investment in scientific facilities
Investment by the WISTA-Management GmbH
Investment in infrastructure in the field of development
Private investment
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Investment in Mio €: 1991 - 2005
Investment in scientific facilities
Investment by the WISTA-Management GmbH
Investment in infrastructure in the field of development
Private investment
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Investment in Mio €: 2006-2012
Investment in scientific facilities
Investment by the WISTA-Management GmbH
Investment in infrastructure in the field of development
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