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ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1965
Seat Hamburg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Alexander Otto , chairman
Number of employees 3,500
sales EUR 1.1 billion
Branch Real estate industry
Website www.ece.de

Headquarters in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel

The ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG is a German company with headquarters in Hamburg , the shopping centers developed implements, leases and operates. The company is owned by CURA Vermögensverwaltung, the holding company of the Otto family.

history

Werner Otto Vermögensverwaltung GmbH was founded by Werner Otto ( Otto-Versand ) in 1965 , which in 1970 became the KG Purchasing Center Development GmbH & Co. , ECE for short. Since the company not only managed department stores, but also other commercial properties, the name was changed to ECE Projektmanagement in 1979 .

The first shopping center was the Franken-Zentrum : It opened on October 23, 1969 in Nuremberg- Langwasser . The Alstertal shopping center in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel followed in 1970 .

Company profile

Founded by Werner Otto in 1965, ECE sees itself as a long-term investor. In the area of ​​inner-city shopping centers , ECE is the market leader in Europe - with branches and subsidiaries in Germany , Poland , the Czech Republic , Hungary , Austria , Greece , Turkey , Bulgaria , Russia , Lithuania , Slovakia , Spain , Italy , Denmark and Qatar . Nationally known objects are the promenades in the main train station in Leipzig , the Potsdamer Platz arcades in Berlin , the Schloss-Arkaden in Braunschweig , the Altmarkt-Galerie in Dresden , the Milaneo in Stuttgart .

Another mainstay of ECE are office and special properties in the Office, Industries and Traffic divisions - from company headquarters (including ThyssenKrupp , Mannheimer Versicherung , Philips ) to train stations ( Cologne , Leipzig , Hanover , Vienna) and television studios (Studio Hamburg, Studio Berlin- Adlershof) and trade fairs up to large goods distribution centers ( Hermes , Otto Versand). Since 2008, ECE has also been offering a new media channel with a subsidiary, ECE flatmedia, which was sold to Ströer Out-of-Home Media in 2011 .

The CEO is Alexander Otto , the youngest son of the company's founder Werner Otto. The company currently manages 196 shopping centers with 7.2 million square meters of retail space . ECE currently looks after properties with a market value volume (" assets under management ") totaling over € 30 billion.

ECE and Hamburg

With the Lebendige Stadt Foundation , the company is committed to European cities on a non-profit basis . The board of trustees and the board of trustees include well-known personalities from science, culture, politics and business. The chairman of the board of trustees is Alexander Otto (CEO of ECE Project Management). The executive board includes Andreas Mattner (managing director of ECE and president of the German real estate agency ZIA Central Real Estate Committee in Berlin), Michael Batz (light artist), Friederike Beyer (Beyer und Partner GbR), Peter Harry Carstensen (prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein a. D .), Robert Heinemann (Senior Director ECE), the urban planning professor Dittmar Machule , the former State Councilor for Urban Development Gerhard Fuchs, Wolfgang Kopitzsch (District Office Manager Hamburg-Nord a. D.) and the former Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma.

Important projects of the foundation include a. the redesign of the Hamburg Jungfernstieg by the landscape architects WES + Partner and the architect André Poitiers, the redesign of the Nikolaikirchhof in Leipzig by David Chipperfield and Tilo Schulz , the illumination of the Cologne bank of the Rhine (won the World Light Prize of the lighting organization LUCI in 2005) and the illumination of the Hamburg warehouse district and the Berlin Reichstag building by the light artist Michael Batz.

The ice and ball sports hall (“Volksbank Arena”) in the Altonaer Volkspark , funded by Alexander Otto with a total of around 15 million euros, was opened at the end of 2008. In addition to the professional teams of the Hamburg Freezers and the HSV Handball u. a. Junior ice hockey teams and schools. The Alexander-Otto-Sportstiftung uses surpluses from the operation of the hall to promote especially youth sport in Hamburg. Alexander Otto was also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hamburger SV .

The former managing director of construction, Jens-Ulrich Maier, was a member of the supervisory board of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburger Bau KG .

After newspaper reports in April 2011 said that ECE had bought 60,000 square meters of the site of the former Altona freight yard and wanted to build apartments for the first time in this planning area for a new district of Neue Mitte Altona , this was done on April 14, 2011 on behalf of the Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and Environment corrected to the effect that only one purchase option had been agreed.

Shopping centers in Germany

Objects in operation

The street superstructure of the City-Arkaden in Wuppertal
Main entrance of the Thier-Galerie on Westenhellweg in Dortmund
  • Allee-Center Berlin
    The Allee-Center opened on November 3, 1994 in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg . There are 50 shops on a sales area of ​​12,300 m². The building also has 3,100 m² of office space.
  • Allee-Center Essen
    The Allee-Center in Essen-Altenessen was opened on November 2nd, 1973. 80 shops are housed on 20,000 m².
  • Allee-Center Magdeburg
    On September 30th, 1998 the Allee-Center was opened in the old town of Magdeburg . Since an expansion in March 2006, it has a sales area of ​​35,000 m². In addition to around 150 shops, there are also office space and rental apartments in the building.
  • Allee-Center Hamm
    The Allee-Center opened on March 5, 1992 in downtown Hamm . 90 shops are located on a sales area of ​​21,000 m².
  • Allee-Center Leipzig
    On September 5th, 1996 the opening of the Allee-Center in Leipzig took place. 115 shops are located on 24,000 square meters. There is also office space, a cinema and a casino.
  • Allee-Center Remscheid
    The largest shopping center in the Bergisches Land has been in Remscheid since 1989: The Allee-Center has more than 100 shops.
  • Alstertal shopping center in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel. Opened in 1970, remodeled in 2006: 59,000 m² and 240 shops
  • Altmarkt-Galerie Dresden
    On September 18, 2002, the     Altmarkt-Galerie opened in the center of Dresden . It contains 200 shops on a sales area of ​​44,000 m².
  • Anger 1 , Erfurt
    The shopping gallery in the center of Erfurt consists of an old building in Art Nouveau style and a modern new building. With around 23,000 m² of retail space, it is one of the largest shopping centers in Thuringia .
  • Aquis Plaza
    On October 28, 2015, the Aquis Plaza opened in downtown Aachen . In addition to 130 shops on 29,200 m², there is a food court (2000 m²) and a multi-storey car park with 600 spaces. Investment volume: 290 million euros.
  • City-Galerie Augsburg
    Since 2001, the City-Galerie, the largest shopping center in Swabia, has been in operation. It comprises 105 shops on 25,000 square meters of retail space.
  • City-Arkaden Wuppertal In
    2001 the     City-Arkaden was opened in Wuppertal - Elberfeld . The building consists of two blocks and spans the four-lane Morianstrasse in the middle .
  • City-Center Chorweiler, Cologne
    The City-Center opened in Chorweiler as early as 1976 and has been managed by ECE since 1989. From 2011 to 2012 the center was restructured. It contains 100 shops on 27,500 m².
  • City-Galerie, Siegen
    On October 14, 1998 the City-Galerie was opened in Siegen . There are 100 shops on 23,500 m².
  • City-Galerie, Wolfsburg
    The Wolfsburg-based center was opened in the City Gallery on September 6 2,001th 100 shops are located on a sales area of ​​20,000 m².
  • City Point Bochum
    In March 1989 the     City Point opened in Bochum . There are 30 shops on a sales area of ​​8,100 m². The building also contains 1,100 m² of office space. The City Point is located in a pedestrian zone and is connected to the turntable shopping center opposite .
  • City-Point Kassel
    On February 27, 2002 the City-Point opened in Kassel . There are 60 shops on 20,000 m². In 2002, its developers won the innovation award for architecture and technology in the light category for the indirect lighting of the center's glass facade.
  • City-Point Nürnberg
    The City-Point Nürnberg was opened on February 24, 1999 on the property of a former Hertie department store . There were 60 shops on an area of ​​12,000 m², plus 2,260 m² of office space. There was also a sports studio in the building. The building was to be demolished in 2018.
  • Turntable, Bochum
    On October 4, 1984, the turntable was opened in Bochum , a three-storey shopping center with 30 shops and a total area of ​​11,500 m² (1,500 of which are used as office space). Thanks to a passage you can get to the City Point opposite , which was opened four and a half years later.
  • dez Kassel
    The dez Kassel opened on May 3rd, 1968 and is one of the first shopping centers in Germany. Since an extensive expansion (July 2012 to February 2013) the dec has a sales area of ​​30,000 m², on which there are 80 shops.
  • Eastgate Berlin
    On September 29, 2005, the Eastgate opened in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf . It contains 150 shops and has a total area of ​​36,100 m², of which 32,000 are used as retail space.
  • Elbe shopping center Hamburg
    On May 12, 1966, the Elbe shopping center (EEZ for short) was opened in the Hamburg district of Osdorf . The center has a sales area of ​​43,000 m² with a total of 180 shops. There is also 1,400 m² of office space.
  • Ernst-August-Galerie, Hannover
    in Hanover was the shopping center (operated its integrated shopping mall to January 2010, also of ECE) on 15 October 2008 next to Central Station Ernst-August-Galerie opened.
  • Europa Passage, Hamburg
    On October 5th, 2006 the Europa Passage opened in Hamburg . In July 2008, ECE took over management as well as leasing. There are 120 shops on 30,000 m² and the building also has 34,000 m² of office space.
  • Ettlinger Tor Karlsruhe In
    2005 the Ettlinger Tor shopping center was opened in downtown Karlsruhe . It is still the largest inner-city shopping center in southern Germany.
  • Europa-Galerie Saarbrücken
    In Saarbrücken , the Europa-Galerie , which opened in October 2010, was built in the buildings of the former mine management and the former Saargalerie .
  • Forum Allgäu Kempten
    On September 10, 2003 the Forum Allgäu Kempten opened its doors. 90 shops are located on a sales area of ​​23,000 m², plus 1,700 m² of office space.
  • Forum Mittelrhein, Koblenz
    The Forum Mittelrhein is located in Koblenz on the central square . It was opened on September 26, 2012 and contains 80 shops on 20,000 m².
  • Forum Wetzlar
    Opened on 16 February 2005 Forum Wetzlar has a sales area of 23,500 m² with 110 shops.
  • Franken-Center, Nuremberg The Franken-Center was opened
    in Nuremberg on October 23, 1969 . 110 shops are located on a sales area of ​​40,000 m².
  • Fördepark Flensburg , joint venture with Metro as part of MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG
  • Gesundbrunnen-Center, Berlin
    On September 30, 1997, the     Gesundbrunnen-Center was opened in Berlin . On an area of ​​25,000 m² there are 100 shops and several restaurants. The center is located on the Berlin Ringbahn and thus has direct access to the S-Bahn and U-Bahn as well as regional and long-distance transport.
  • Glacis-Galerie, Neu-Ulm
    On March 19, 2015 the Glacis-Galerie in Neu-Ulm was opened. There are 100 shops on 27,800 m² of retail space.
  • Halls at the Borsigturm , Berlin
    OnMarch 25, 1999, the Halls at the Borsigturm were openedin Berlin-Tegel . In addition to a sales area of ​​22,000 m² on which there are 115 shops, the building includes 16,000 m² of office space and 7,500 m² of hotel space.
  • Hamburger Meile, Hamburg
    The Hamburger Meile was opened on May 8, 1970 in the Barmbek-Süd district . There are 150 shops on a sales area of ​​46,200 m². There is also 13,000 m² of office space.
  • Hessen-Center, Frankfurt
    The     Hessen-Center was opened on April 1, 1971 in the Bergen-Enkheim district of Frankfurt . 115 shops are located on 38,000 m² of retail space.
  • Holsten-Galerie, Neumünster
    In downtown Neumünster , the Holsten-Galerie Neumünster was opened on October 15, 2015 on the site of the former Courierhaus. 90 shops cover a sales area of ​​22,800 m².
  • Hürth Park Hürth Park was opened
    on August 30, 1977 and has a sales area of ​​50,500 m². In addition to 150 shops, the shopping center also houses medical practices and a cinema.
  • Isenburg Center, Neu-Isenburg Opened
    in 1972 in Neu-Isenburg , the Isenburg Center was expanded from November 2010 to the end of September 2011. It has a sales area of ​​44,000 m² with 140 shops.
  • K in Lautern
    On the area of ​​the closed Karstadt house in the Kaiserslautern city center, a shopping center has been built with space for up to 100 shops on around 21,000 m² of retail space. The opening took place on March 25, 2015.
  • Kröpeliner Tor Center Rostock
  • Kornmarkt-Center Bautzen
    On September 20, 2000 the     Kornmarkt-Center opened in Bautzen . It contains 70 shops on a sales area of ​​9,000 m², making it the largest shopping center in Upper Lusatia.
  • Kö Galerie Düsseldorf
    On September 21, 1986, the Kö Galerie was opened in Düsseldorf's Königsallee . After a restructuring, which lasted from March 2010 to November 15, 2012, there are 90 shops on a sales area of ​​20,000 m². There is also 30,000 m² of office space.
  • Königsbau Passagen, Stuttgart
    The opening of the Königsbau Passagen in Stuttgart took place on April 20, 2006. A restructuring took place from 2012 to June 2013, during which a large catering area was integrated into the shopping center. Since then, the size of the sales area is 27,000 m², on which there are 85 shops. In addition, there are 14,000 m² that serve as office space.
  • Leo Center, Leonberg
    On October 17th 1973 the Leo Center in Leonberg was opened. 90 shops are located on a sales area of ​​27,000 m².
  • Limbecker Platz, Essen With the Limbecker Platz in 2008, the largest inner-city shopping center in Germany was built
    in Essen . It includes almost 200 shops on more than 70,000 square meters.
  • Linden-Center, Berlin
    On October 20, 1995, the     Linden-Center opened in the Berlin district of Hohenschönhausen . There is space for 90 shops on 25,000 m², plus 2,800 m² of office space.
  • Löhr-Center Koblenz
    The Löhr-Center was opened on February 23, 1984 and has around 130 shops and restaurants on an area of ​​32,000 m².
  • Loom Bielefeld
    In Bielefeld, ECE converted the former City-Passage into a modern shopping center with around 110 shops on around 26,000 m² of retail space. The opening took place on October 26, 2017.
  • Luisencenter , Darmstadt
    The Luisencenter opened on September 1st, 1977 in Darmstadt . It was named after the place where it is located, Luisenplatz . The shopping center has a sales area of ​​16,000 m² with a total of 60 shops and over 2,300 m² of office space.
  • Main-Taunus-Zentrum, Sulzbach
    The Main-Taunus-Zentrum was opened on May 2, 1964 in Sulzbach . Two-year expansion measures began in November 2009. Since then, the shopping center has had a sales area of ​​91,000 m² with 170 shops.
  • Märkischezeile, Berlin In
    1967 the Märkischezeile was opened in the Märkische Viertel in Berlin, which was just being built up and was supposed to serve as a shopping center for the residents of the district. There is space for 35 shops on 13,000 m².
  • Marktplatz-Center, Neubrandenburg The Marktplatz-Center was opened on September 16, 1998
    in Neubrandenburg . There are 70 shops on 12,500 m².
  • Marstall, Ludwigsburg
    The Marstall was opened in Ludwigsburg on September 30, 2015 after it had received a completely new appearance as part of a major refurbishment for over 100 million euros. There are 70 shops on 25,700 m².
  • Milaneo, Stuttgart
    The Milaneo opened in Stuttgart on October 9, 2014 . It consists of three different structures and is referred to more as a district than a shopping center. There is space for 200 shops on 43,000 m². In addition, there is a total of 15,900 m² of hotel and office space, and there are 415 apartments in the complex. The project was awarded the gold pre-certificate by the DGNB .
  • MyZeil, Frankfurt am Main
    The MyZeil opened on February 26, 2009 in the city center of Frankfurt am Main . 100 shops are located on 6 floors with a sales area of ​​44,000 m². The specialty of the shopping center is probably the complex glass roof construction designed by the Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas .
  • Nova , Leuna
    The shopping center was opened in 1991. The Nova is located on the A9 between Leipzig and Halle and has a sales area of ​​76,000 m² with 200 shops.
  • Olympia shopping center, Munich
    On May 25, 1972, the Olympia shopping center was opened in Munich . The sales area covers 56,000 m² and includes 135 shops.
  • PEP, Munich
    In March 1981 pep opened in the Munich district of Neuperlach . There are 125 shops on 50,000 m².
  • Potsdamer Platz Arcades, Berlin
    at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin-Mitte were on 2 October 1998 Potsdamer Platz Arcades opened. There are 130 shops on an area of ​​40,000 m².
  • Promenaden Hauptbahnhof Leipzig
    The opening of the shopping center in the Hauptbahnhof Leipzig took place on November 12, 1997. The Promenaden Hauptbahnhof Leipzig have 140 shops on 30,000 m².
  • Rathaus-Center Dessau
    The Rathaus-Center Dessau was opened on September 21, 1995. 90 shops are located on 20,400 m².
  • Rathaus-Center Ludwigshafen
    The Rathaus-Center in Ludwigshafen was opened on March 1, 1979. 75 shops are located on a sales area of ​​28,000 m².
  • Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen
    At the beginning of 2008, construction began on the Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen , which opened on February 24, 2010. In addition to 122 shops (at the time of opening), the ECE project houses a small part of the administration, including the Leverkusen City Citizens' Office, the     city ​​library and a council chamber.
  • Rhein-Center , Cologne
    On March 9th, the Rhein-Center opened in Weiden , a district on the western outskirts of Cologne . There is space for 180 shops on 40,000 m² of retail space.
  • Rhein-Galerie, Ludwigshafen
    Rhine gallery

    In September 2010 the Rhein-Galerie opened in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . The company realized the center on the banks of the Rhine with 130 shops on 30,000 square meters. A hotel and an event hall are being planned. ECE already operates the Rathaus-Center Ludwigshafen a few hundred meters away and the Rhein-Neckar-Zentrum Viernheim 15 kilometers away .
  • Rheinpark-Center, Neuss
    The HUMA shopping park, which opened in 1977, was taken over by ECE in 2008 and reopened in 2010 as the Rheinpark-Center . The company realized the center in the immediate vicinity of Düsseldorf with over 140 shops and almost 40,000 square meters of space.
  • Rhein-Neckar-Zentrum, Viernheim In 1972 the Rhein-Neckar-Zentrum was opened in Viernheim . There are 110 shops on 60,000 m².
  • RheinRuhrZentrum Mülheim
    The RheinRuhrZentrum , or RRZ for short, comprises 70,000 m² of retail space and 200 shops . The center was opened in 1973 in Mülheim an der Ruhr .
  • Ring Center , Berlin
    The Ring Center in Berlin consists of three different buildings (Ring Center I, II & III) and extends over the border between the districts of Friedrichshain and Lichtenberg . The openings took place on October 5, 1995, October 29, 1997 and March 28, 2007, respectively. The shopping center comprises a total of around 45,200 m² of retail space. Ring Center I has 16,500 m², Ring Center II 20,000 m² and Ring Center III 8,700 m².
  • Roland Center , Bremen
    On November 2nd, 1972, the Roland Center opened in Bremen . It has a sales area of ​​30,000 m² with a total of 100 shops.
  • Rotmain-Center Bayreuth
    On September 25, 1997, the Rotmain-Center opened in Bayreuth . It covers 20,000 m² and there are 80 shops.
  • Saarpark-Center, Neunkirchen
    On August 31, 1989 the Saarpark-Center in Neunkirchen was opened. There is space for 130 shops on 33,500 m².
  • Sachsen-Allee, Chemnitz
    On October 15, 1997 the opening of Sachsen-Allee in Chemnitz took place. The center has a sales area of ​​32,000 m² with 85 shops. There is also 1,250 m² of office space.
  • Castle Arcades, Braunschweig
    On March 29, 2007 the Castle Arcades in Braunschweig opened. In the area of ​​the reconstructed facade of the castle and in an annex behind it there are 150 specialist shops on a sales area of ​​around 30,000 m². On a further 13,300 m² there are municipal facilities, namely the city library, the city archive, the cultural administration, an event hall (“Red Hall”), the castle museum and the staircase to the viewing platform of the Quadriga.
  • Castle Courtyards, Oldenburg The Castle Courtyards were opened on March 16, 2011
    in Oldenburg . The planning for the shopping center resulted, among other things, in the incumbent mayor being voted out and a council coalition broken up.
  • Schlossparkcenter, Schwerin
    On September 23, 1998, the     Schlossparkcenter was opened in Schwerin at Marienplatz . It is located in an ensemble of new and old buildings and offers 20,000 m² of retail space on three levels in around 125 shops.
  • Sophienhof, Kiel , taken over by ECE from the bankruptcy estate of the former Arcandor AG.
  • Skyline Plaza, Frankfurt
    The Skyline Plaza in Frankfurt opened on August 29, 2013. 170 shops are located on a sales area of ​​38,000 m². In addition to shopping, the building also includes gastronomy, sports and wellness offers. It was awarded a gold pre-certificate by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB)     for its sustainable planning and urban integration .
  • Stadt-Galerie , Hameln
    The19,000 square meter “Stadt-Galerie” shopping center was opened in Hameln ,Lower Saxony, in the spring of 2008 - in the middle of the half-timbered city center - which secures 800 jobs for the region with almost 100 shops. This project is controversial in terms of urban planning and its architectural quality and was criticized in 2011 because of the displacement competition taking place in the city center.
  • Stadtgalerie Heilbronn
    In the summer of 2006 the construction of a shopping center in downtown Heilbronn started . The project, which was controversial among the citizens because of its dimensions - more than 10,000 signatures against the construction were collected - was opened on March 5, 2008.
  • Stadtgalerie Passau
    The Stadtgalerie Passau was opened on September 10, 2008. 90 shops are located on 21,000 m².
  • City Gallery , Plauen
    On October 2, 2001, the City Gallery opened in Plauen . 80 shops are located on 14,000 m².
  • Stadtgalerie Schweinfurt
    The Stadtgalerie Schweinfurt was opened on February 26, 2009. There are 100 shops on a sales area of ​​22,500 m².
  • Stern-Center Lüdenscheid
    The Lüdenscheid Stern-Center first opened on March 17, 1977 near Sternplatz in the city center. In the early 1990s, the former building was demolished to create a more contemporary shopping mall in the square. At the same time, on June 19, 1991, ECE took over the management of the newly built shopping center, which until summer 2015 belonged to constantly changing investors, but has now also been acquired by ECE. There is space for 110 shops on 30,000 m², with a daily visitor number of 27,119.
  • Stern-Center Potsdam
    On October 24th 1996 the opening of the Stern-Center in Potsdam took place. After an expansion, which took place from 2015 to 2016, the shopping center has 35,000 m² of retail space on which there are 85 shops. There is also 3,600 m² of office space.
  • Tempelhofer Hafen , Berlin
    70 shops on 21,000 m² are located in Tempelhofer Hafen, which is named after the port in the Berlin district of Tempelhof , where it was built. The opening took place on April 29, 2009.
  • Thier-Galerie, Dortmund
    On September 15, 2011, the     Thier-Galerie was opened as an inner-city shopping center in Dortmund on the site of the former Thier brewery, within walking distance of Westenhellweg .
  • Thuringia Park , Erfurt
    TheThuringia Park was openedin Erfurt on October 5, 1995. The center has a sales area of ​​22,000 m² and contains 100 shops.
  • Waterfront Bremen , since August 1, 2015 under the sole management of ECE.
  • Werre-Park, Bad Oeynhausen
    On April 1st, 1998 the Werre-Park opened in Bad Oeynhausen . There are 75 shops in the center on a sales area of ​​29,500 m², as well as 2,800 m² of office space.
  • Weserpark Bremen , joint venture with Metro as part of MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG

Projects under construction / preparation

  • Lö, Lörrach , expected opening in December 2020

Abandoned projects

  • Celle
    In Celle an ECE project was planned in the inner and old town, which was rejected by parts of the local retail trade. Corresponding protest posters were found in many shop windows in Celle. After the local elections in September 2006, the plans were abandoned.
  • Cottbus
    In Cottbus , the plans to build a shopping center close to the city center were also given up. According to ECE, an economic realization is no longer possible.
  • Mollis (Switzerland)
    In Mollis ( Switzerland , Canton Glarus ), a shopping center with 36,000 m² of retail space was to be built in a decidedly rural setting. In contrast, there was considerable local opposition, including a. with two collections of signatures and a motion in the parliament of the Canton of Glarus. The Swiss Transport Club is taking legal action against the project because, according to the investor, it would cause environmental pollution through 125 million kilometers by car and 24,000 tons of CO 2 emissions. The environmental association asked the courts to clarify the question of whether the current Swiss legislation allows shopping centers on the greenfield. On October 17, 2007, the association filed a representative action with the administrative court of the Canton of Glarus.
  • Velbert
    In October 2013, ECE abandoned the plan to build a 20,000 m² shopping center in the center of Velbert.

Company takeovers

In July 2010, ECE took over the Spanish Auxideico with 14 shopping centers under management. Madrid-based Auxideico Gestión SAU manages shopping centers in Spain. These centers are owned by ING Real Estate Investment Management , Deutsche Bank (RREEF), Invesco Real Estate and LaSalle Investment Management . With a total of over 500,000 square meters of rental space and an average of more than 100 shops per shopping center, it is one of the largest management portfolios in Spain.

The operations of Auxideico Gestión SAU will remain largely unchanged, with all 68 employees remaining with the company. The name Auxideico will also be continued until further notice - the company will become part of the ECE Group. The number of shopping centers is 130 (as of July 2010).

criticism

Desolation of inner cities

ECE is made jointly responsible for the dying of inner cities. Centers that are built in large areas on green fields or in inner cities in a construction that isolates themselves from the rest of the environment are the trigger for the death of specialist shops in old towns. ECE centers are usually uniformly equipped with international anchor tenants who take away the purchasing power of long-established specialist shops.

privacy

In February 2011, ECE came under fire after the top data protection officer of the state of Hamburg, Johannes Caspar , criticized the video surveillance in the Alstertal shopping center in Hamburg as violating the Federal Data Protection Act. The same applies to the ECE shopping centers in Essen and Wuppertal. He criticized the installation of video cameras, among other things, in the entrance areas to the toilets and changing rooms of the employees as well as in the vicinity of escalators or lounges, in which visitors usually assumed that they were in a “relative situation of anonymity”. ECE has been instructed to dismantle 24 of the 75 cameras installed; In the meantime, in agreement with the data protection officer, the company has reorganized for all centers in Germany where cameras are allowed to hang and where all other cameras are dismantled. A little later, Caspar also filed a complaint against ECE because, in his opinion, it records customer calls without prior consent. ECE admitted this in individual cases and announced that it would not do this in the future.

Working conditions in construction

On March 1, 2013, the Turkish daily Radikal published a protest by the Turkish Association for Social Rights ( Sosyal Haklar Derneği in Turkish ), which awarded ECE the prize for the foreign investor of the year 2012 and displayed a banner with the text “ There are 11 Workers burned to death. How quickly did you forget ? ” Pointed out the inglorious working conditions during the construction of the Marmara Park shopping center in Esenyurt , which was built with ECE participation . The Turkish daily Evrensel reported on March 12, 2012 details of the deaths of the eleven workers. Accordingly, the construction workers of the huge shopping complex with an investment volume of 220 million euros were not housed in container apartments, but in nylon tents. 35 workers were housed in the 10-person tents. The fire had spread from one tent to another. Eleven workers were killed by burns and smoke inhalation. The ECE stated that the Kaldem Yapi company, a subcontractor of the general contractor Kayi, with whom there was no direct contractual relationship, was responsible for the accommodation.

Web links

Commons : ECE Projektmanagement (Hamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

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