Erlangen Arcaden
| Erlangen Arcaden | |
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| Exterior view of the Erlangen Arcaden from the west | |
| Basic data | |
| Location: | gain |
| Opening: | September 18, 2007 |
| Sales area : | 30,900 m² |
| Shops: | 107 (as of October 2017) |
| Visitors: | approx. 32,000 daily (2014) |
| Turnover : | € 96.3 million (2014) |
| Owner : | TH Real Estate, Frankfurt am Main |
| Website: | Erlangen-arcaden.de/ |
| Transport links | |
| Railway station: | Erlangen train station |
| Bus stop: | Arcades |
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| Omnibus : | 20, 30, 203, 205, 208, 209, 210, 252, 253, 281, 284, 285, 286, 287, 289, 290, 294, 295, N10, N20, N28, N29 |
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| Other: | Nürnberger Strasse, Güterhallenstrasse, Güterbahnhofstrasse, Nägelsbachstrasse |
| Parking spaces : | 659 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Construction time : | 2006-2007 |
| Architect : | Hubert Kress, Erlangen |
| Building material : | Reinforced concrete, glass |
| Building-costs: | approx. € 100 million |
The Erlangen Arcaden are a shopping center in downtown Erlangen . The building complex houses over 100 shops on three floors and a large parking garage with around 650 parking spaces.
location
The Erlangen Arcaden is located at the Güterhallenstrasse / Güterbahnhofstrasse intersection in the immediate vicinity of the busy “Güterhallenunterführung” under the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway line . The Erlangen station is just five minutes walk away. The main entrances to the approximately 300-meter-long shopping arcade are at the intersection of Nürnberger Strasse / Güterhallenstrasse and on Nürnberger Strasse, roughly opposite the Galeria Kaufhof department store on the so-called “Neuer Markt”. The Arcaden bus stop (formerly the main post office ), one of the network hubs for Erlangen's city traffic, is also located at the intersection .
history
In 2001, MfI (Management für Immobilien AG), which has since been absorbed by the French real estate company Unibail-Rodamco , submitted the first plans for the Erlangen Arcaden . These envisaged a shopping center with around 30,000 m² of business space on an area between Güterhallenstrasse and Hochstrasse, together with a new Sparkasse building that was planned at the time . However, the planned size of the building aroused widespread opposition, so that the investor relented in December 2002 and announced that the size of the project would be limited to the main post office area at the time. Although this “city-friendly solution” found significantly more supporters, numerous opposing votes were also retained. Therefore that of the former was City Council majority from CSU and FDP favored model on 13 June 2004, the day of the European elections , a referendum subjected. The shopping center was supported by around 60 percent of voters.
However, a citizens' initiative “Stadtverträigte Arcaden” collected a five-digit number of signatures in Erlangen with the aim of realizing a smaller shopping center in the same location. The initiators hope that this will result in less purchasing power being withdrawn from small, long-established shops in the city center. In the resulting referendum in September 2005, it was possible to choose between two size variants, with the more extensive one prevailing with around 53 percent. If the outcome was the opposite, the MfI would not have implemented the project.
In an architectural competition , the design by Professor Hubert Kress from the Erlangen-based office KJS Architekten prevailed against four other concepts and was implemented in 2006/07. On September 18, 2007, the shopping center was opened in the presence of numerous guests of honor. At this point in time, MfI had invested around 100 million euros in Erlangen Arcaden , and around 100 tenants had invested another 50 million euros. In 2009 , the Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (GfK) certified that these investments had paid off . In particular, the excellent transport connections, including supraregional accessibility, and the fact that around 55 percent of Arcaden customers also shop in other shops in the city center were emphasized. As a result, the arcades do not operate at the expense of the city center, but rather there is mutual reinforcement.
In 2011, an average of 28,000 visitors a day were counted in the arcades, 55 percent of whom came to Erlangen from surrounding cities and communities. The 650 or so parking spaces were often fully used, especially at the weekend. In 2013, the Erlangen-based consulting company Markt und Lage determined that there had been around 100 new and redesign investments in shops in the city center since the shopping center opened. In addition, around 67 percent of Arcaden customers would also shop in other shops in the city center, an increase of twelve percentage points compared to 2009. A year later, the average daily number of visitors had increased to 32,000; the annual turnover in 2014 was 96.3 million euros.
In 2017/18, the operator Unibail-Redamco undertook an extensive "revitalization" and modernization of the Erlangen Arcaden for around ten million euros . Some new stores also opened.
architecture
The architect Hubert Kress constructed what he called a "tension arch" about 300 meters long from the Loewenich'schen Palais back to Nürnberger Straße. A three-storey, light-flooded “ boulevard ” with a glass roof (“light band”) and several light wells was housed in it. In addition, the Erlangen Arcaden building has an elegantly curved shape, which on the west side is based on the course of Güterhallenstrasse and Nägelsbachstrasse, and a diaphanous , illuminated membrane as the outer skin. The building was selected in 2008 for the architecture tours of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Shopping Center - Bavaria ( Memento of the original from September 10, 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. . Online at www.unibail-rodamco.de ; accessed on March 5, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h After ten years: The arcades are being modernized . Online at www.nordbayern.de ; accessed on March 5, 2018.
- ↑ Lots of new things: This is changing in the Erlangen Arcaden . Online at www.nordbayern.de ; accessed on March 5, 2018.
- ^ KJS + Architects GbR: Erlangen Arcaden . Online at kjs-architekten.de ; accessed on March 5, 2018.
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 35.2 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 14.6 ″ E