Austria Campus

In front the Bank Austria Wohnbaubank, behind it the Austria Campus, below the Venediger Au

The Austria Campus is a business location built in the 2nd district of Vienna , Leopoldstadt , consisting of six office complexes with a total area of approx. 200,000 m² and its own infrastructure. The campus is an integral part of the on the site of the former North Station arising Northern Railway district , a town center near urban development area, and one of the largest construction projects that have been implemented in Europe. The investment volume for the entire Austria Campus in 2012 was estimated at around 500 million euros.

history

Originally the area was owned by the Austrian Federal Railways . At the end of 2014, Signa Holding took over the location from Unicredit Bank Austria . Construction began at the beginning of 2015 and was completed in 2018/2019. In the final stage, 7,000 to 8,000 jobs were created here.

In October 2017, the first three parts of the Austria Campus were sold to PGIM Real Estate for German and Swiss institutional investors as part of a "forward deal" (sale of land with the seller's obligation to construct a building). With a volume of over 500 million euros, it was the largest real estate transaction of 2017 and the largest office property transaction in Austria at all. (The purchase price for these parts corresponded to the total investment assumed in 2012 for the Austria Campus.)

At the end of 2017, the Vienna Chamber of Commerce (WKW) acquired campus building 1 in order to move into its new headquarters on the newly named Straße der Wiener Wirtschaft at the end of 2018 . All ten locations to which the Chamber was previously divided in Vienna, especially the traditional main building on Stubenring , were gradually closed and the Chamber's services were instead concentrated in one place. The move took place until April 2019.

On September 13, 2018, the headquarters of Unicredit Bank Austria (Rothschildplatz 1) was inaugurated with around 60,000 m² of office space. Over 5000 employees from several group companies, who previously worked at 12 locations, were brought together in the new group headquarters.

architecture

The basis for the construction of the Austria Campus was formed by the plans of the two winning projects in the urban planning competition: by the architectural office Boris Podrecca and the implementation competition for the top structure of the Austria Campus (Soyka / Silber / Soyka Architects).

sustainability

The geothermal heating and cooling system specially developed for the Austria Campus is equipped with a pipeline network of approx. 250,000 running meters is currently Austria's largest geothermal project and one of the largest near-surface geothermal plants in Europe. The total heating output of approx. 3,000 kW per year corresponds to the heating output of more than 250 single-family houses. The geothermally activated office buildings of the Austria Campus make it possible to use the energy of geothermal energy both for heating and cooling the building and correspond to an environmentally friendly, sustainable and operating cost-reducing concept for building technology.

Location, public transport connections, infrastructure

The area is connected to local public transport via the nearby Praterstern transport hub (train, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, tram) and the Vorgartenstraße subway station on the U1 line, as well as the local cycle path network. On the neighboring Lassallestrasse there is a regional connection for individual traffic to northern Lower Austria , Moravia and southern Poland . The Wiener Prater recreation area with the Ferris wheel is within walking distance.

The Budget Design Hotel Roomz operates its second location in Vienna and an attached conference center. The Austrian grocery chain Hofer has opened as a retail anchor tenant (retail = retail) on an area of 1,600 m². The Sonneninsel kindergarten has opened and when it opened it was one of the largest kindergartens in Vienna.

Further infrastructure was created in campus building 6 on 10,000 m² and with 1,800 seats by the publicly accessible canteen "Quartier Sechs" operated by Eurest and by other catering providers on the ground floor area. The planned opening of a medical and health center in campus building 3 completes the range of infrastructure and local supply. According to the planners, further synergies will be created in the immediate vicinity of the nearby exhibition center and the campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business .