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die mitte is the name of a commercial building on Alexanderplatz in Berlin 's Mitte district . In addition to the main tenant, Saturn, there are nine other shops in the building. The opening took place on March 25, 2009. A residential high-rise is planned right next to the building on the same property.
Buildings and shops
The building has six storeys with an attic and offers a total of 22,200 m² of gross floor area on a floor area of 3,886 m² , of which around 17,500 m² are intended for retail. It is not a shopping center in the classic sense, as all shops have their entrances to the square and are not connected via a passage. There is a small underground car park with 70 parking spaces below the building.
The main tenant is the electronics retail chain Saturn , which has moved from the lower building of the nearby hotel . Saturn rented all of the upper floors, doubling its sales area from 4,500 to around 9,000 m², with a total area of 14,000 m². This means that the largest electronics store in Berlin is only around 200 meters away from one of the largest media markets in Germany, which opened in the Alexa shopping center in autumn 2007 . It is one of the three largest Saturn branches in Germany.
There are nine shops on the ground floor and basement of the building, including those of the New Yorker , dm and snipes retail chains .
history
The winning design of the architectural competition for the design of Alexanderplatz by the Berlin architect Hans Kollhoff , which was held shortly after the political change , had the goal of reducing the area of the square with a building in the northeast. The corresponding development plans were approved as early as 1994 without anything being done.
The 5,329 m² area (in the development plan “ Building Block D4”) belongs to the Texan property development company Hines . A first mentioned time for the start of construction was the spring of 2005, but initially nothing happened because, according to Hines, the potential main tenant was no longer available. In September 2006, Hines announced that construction would start again in early 2007.
The foundation stone for the building designed by the architects Rhode, Kellermann and Wawrowsky was laid on May 24, 2007 ; the topping-out ceremony was held on June 18, 2008. Hines invested around 100 million euros in the project. The large neon signs initially planned by the investor were not installed after the rejection by the Mitte district and the Senate .
There is a subway tunnel below the building . Therefore, several 16 meter long and 120 ton heavy steel girders bridge the tunnel and distribute the load.
On March 25, 2009, the office building was opened at midnight, with more than 100 security guards and 50 police officers on duty due to the expected crowd for security reasons.
In July 2009 the building was sold by the Hines development company to the real estate company Commerz Real , a subsidiary of Commerzbank , for EUR 126.6 million . After a holding period of almost exactly two years, Commerz Real sold the building in July 2011 for 124.2 million euros to an unspecified foreign investor, although the mention of an alleged additional revenue of 5.8 million euros suggests that the price information is unreliable are.
skyscraper
In the original post-reunification plans, ten high-rise buildings were planned on Alexanderplatz, one of them on the site of the commercial building in the middle . When it was built, a 1,400 m² area on the north side was prepared for a high-rise building. In the summer of 2013, Hines started an architectural competition to which nine architects were invited; on September 17, 2013, a second round was started in which four of the nine architects can revise their plans. The architect Frank Gehry prevailed in the competition , construction of the 39-story high-rise apartment building, which is to cost 250 million euros, should start in 2015. The tower offers 38,000 m² of usable space, of which 32,000 m² are to be used for apartments. A hotel is being built on the lower nine floors.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ die mitte - commercial building opens to Alex. In: BZ , March 5, 2009
- ↑ Saturn needs more space. In: BZ , March 19, 2009
- ↑ Premiere under police protection. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 25, 2009
- ↑ Topping-out ceremony at Alex: The buyer's heart is now six storeys higher. In: Berliner Kurier , June 18, 2008
- ↑ One-time civil engineering work for the new commercial building: Die Mitte - shopping at Alexanderplatz. In: property magazine , December 21, 2007
- ↑ A new shopping center is growing on Alex. In: Welt Online , December 24, 2007
- ↑ The storm on Saturn. In: BZ , March 25, 2009
- ↑ Commerz Real buys shopping center in Berlin Mitte. ( Memento from July 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: cash-online
- ↑ Disclosure of sale from Commerz Real AG to sales partners ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Fund concept
- ↑ Architectural competition for skyscraper on Alexanderplatz is ongoing. ( Memento from August 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: rbb online , August 6, 2013
- ↑ The second round of the competition for the high-rise building on Alexanderplatz. ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Rohmert-Medien , September 20, 2013
- ↑ Germany's highest residential tower is being built on Alexanderplatz . In: Berliner Morgenpost , January 27, 2014
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '18.2 " N , 13 ° 24' 53.3" E