20.09.2011

Adlershof keeps growing

The urban development of the science location Adlershof is anything but complete. Walter Leibl, managing director of the Adlershof Projekt GmbH, has many plans to create a modern and vibrant city quarter.

During the day, Adlershof is bustling with life with some 22,000 people working, researching or going to college. For the time being, however, the place becomes quiet after closing-time. Together with his company, Walter Leibl is pursuing the goal to enhance urban life in this high-tech location without compromising its original character. There is, in fact, no lack of space, with an area of approximately 100 hectare still left to be developed. This comes as a surprise for many. “In the minds of many people, Adlershof is almost completed – which it is not“, Leibl points out. Doubling the number of businesses and workforce and further urbanising the city of science is his vision for 2020.

To begin with, the new tram line provides business people, scientists and shoppers with a faster and easier access to Adlershof’s city centre where they will soon find an even more “vitalised” Rudower Chaussee. A new office and commercial building, Air Campus Adlershof, is about to be constructed at the intersection of Am Studio. And there will be more small retailers bringing life to this “new urban thoroughfare,“ as Leibl calls it. Already, the „Forumsplatz“ with its café, benches and boules playing field has become a lively meeting place.

The area situated between the department buildings of Humboldt University and the landscaped park – a site of some 14 hectare intended for the construction of up to 900 residential units – will make Adlershof even livelier. The “Wohnen am Campus” project is designed as a mix of townhouses, mansions, apartment buildings and a student village. “Here, like anywhere in Adlershof, top-quality architecture is in demand“, Leibl emphasises.

The Groß-Berliner Damm thoroughfare with its adjacent state-owned areas will play a central role in the location’s commercial development. Along this “axis of investment“, further technology-oriented businesses are expected to locate on an area of approximately 300,000 square metres – a prestigious address, mainly for large-scale production companies. Areas immediately bordering on the parkland west of Groß-Berliner Damm will be more attractive for smallscale users such as research institutes. However, before these particular properties are marketed another road running parallel to Groß-Berliner Damm will be constructed, Leibl explains.

No question about it: Adlershof will again change its face. The recently refurbished S-Bahn station is only one example. Exuding a contemporary urban flair, its two illuminated columns welcoming the visitor mark the gateway to a lively place where, in the future, the lights will continue to burn all night.

Contact:
Walter Leibl
Head of Planning and Site Development Division
Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 6392-3900
Fax: +49 (0) 30 / 6392-3901
E-Mail: leibl(at)wista.de