Glacis Gallery

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Glacis Gallery
Glacis Gallery
Basic data
Location: New Ulm
Opening: 19th March 2015
Total area: 110,000 m²
Sales area : 27,800 m²
Shops: 100
Visitors: 19,048 daily
Owner : CBRE Global Investors
Operator: ECE project management
Website: www.glacis-galerie.de
Transport links
Railway station: Neu-Ulm train station
Stops: ZUP Neu-Ulm, Meininger Allee, Neu-Ulm Town Hall
Omnibus : Lines 5, 7, 70, 71, 73, 76, 77, 78, 79, 84, 85, 88, 89, 597, 737, 850
Motorways : A7, A8/ B10, B28,B30
Parking spaces : 1100
Technical specifications
Construction time : April 2013 – March 2015
Building-costs: € 130 million

The Glacis-Galerie is a shopping center in Neu-Ulm .

Overview

City side of the Glacis-Galerie with the newly designed Heiner-Metzger-Platz
Glacis-Galerie entrance at Maximilianstrasse

Construction began on April 30, 2013, and the opening took place on March 19, 2015.

The project was made possible by Procom and the Neu-Ulm 21 rail project . The Blautal-Center in Ulm currently represents the greatest competition, which was converted in 2015 for around 15 million. The "Green Bridge" (bike and footpath from the Danube bank through the apron to the Wiley ) was built over with the shopping center . Through an urban development contract with the city of Neu-Ulm, a crossing option for pedestrians and bicycles was therefore agreed on weekdays from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and on Sundays and public holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. However, according to the house rules, bicycles may not be driven or pushed, but must be carried through the shopping center. In October 2015, investor Procom sold the Glacis gallery with a profit of around 11.5 percent for 145 million euros to real estate management company CBRE Global Investors.

shops

The largest store and with a total of 4,500 square meters is Media Markt . The electronics giant has thus given up its previous location on Otto-Hahn-Strasse. The grocer Rewe has also moved into the Glacis gallery on 3,300 square meters. There are also many clothing stores, including C&A , Zara , H&M, and New Yorker . In addition, there is the sports outfitter Ochsner Sport , a dm drugstore , three opticians, the Thalia bookstore , several shoe shops and hairdressers as well as an ice cream parlor, the Subway fast food chain and other restaurants. A total of around 100 new shops can be found under the roof of the shopping establishment in the city center of Neu-Ulm. Currently (spring 2017), however, there are also 10 empty retail spaces with a total of 1,600 square meters that have not yet been let since the opening.

location

Public transport through the Glacis-Galerie to the Neu-Ulm train station and to the central transfer point (ZUP)

The shopping center is located right next to the Neu-Ulm train station , which was lowered with the Neu-Ulm 21 railway project and completed at the end of 2007. The bus station called “Central Transfer Point (ZUP)” is also located there. Ulm Central Station is two kilometers further . The city center and Neu-Ulm town hall are only a few steps away. It takes just under ten minutes to cross the Danube and reach the neighboring town of Ulm in Baden-Württemberg.

criticism

In the opinion of retailers in the industrial area on Otto-Hahn-Straße, the Glacis-Galerie will take customers away from existing shops in the city center of Neu-Ulm. It will be particularly difficult for the Mutschler Center, which is currently the largest tenant, Kaufland, and a few other small shops that could be sold to customers. However, this problem could not even arise because the Bopfingen furniture dealer Möbel Mahler has bought the Mutschler Center and wants to use the entire sales area for itself. This means that shops could move from the former Mutschler Center to the Glacis Gallery.

In addition to Media Markt, there is the shoe store Siemes Schuhcenter , McDonald’s , Dehner , the Göbel beverage market in the former Schleckerland and C + C Schaper on and around Otto-Hahn-Straße . These shops in the industrial area are endangered by the Glacis gallery because the customer magnet comes from Media Markt. All customers would then only shop in the Glacis gallery.

In the neighboring city of Ulm, there is the Blautal-Center and the pedestrian zone in the city center, and the Sedelhöfe shopping center is also planned near the city center (opening expected in 2018–2019). There is also a shopping center in the nearby town of Senden . These shopping centers already offer the Glacis Gallery, with Procom representative Samland promising that something unique will find space in the Glacis Gallery.

The residents of Bahnhofstrasse complain about the possible noise and smell of the exhaust air system on the 26-meter-high shopping center. The so-called skyboxes are to be placed three times on the roof, but residents are demanding that they be placed further south. As a result, Procom decided to insulate the exhaust air system. Another obstacle is a yellow house on Bahnhofstrasse, which according to the plan should give way, but the investor Procom could not come to an agreement with the residents and had to change the plan again. The city council decided on the new version on October 10, 2012 and approved it. After other residents of Bahnhofstrasse complained about the possible illnesses caused by the exhaust air system, Procom and the residents agreed on tacit compensation. Due to the delay in negotiations, the start of construction had to be postponed again in 2013.

In the Shopping Center Performance Report survey carried out in 2016 , the Glacis-Galerie achieved the third-last of 269 places with a grade of 4.50. As part of this survey, retailers in large shopping centers across Germany were asked how they assessed their local economic strength. The main point of criticism was the strong competition from the nearby Ulm city center. Although the Glacis Gallery is relatively busy, many visitors only stroll through the center and do not shop. The operator ECE reacted to this result a few weeks before it was published due to the bad mood on site and hired a new center manager, who is now the third since the opening a year and a half earlier. In addition, they want to increase the quality of stay in the center as well as the general attractiveness, create more seating options, replace the manual entrance doors with automatic sliding doors and reduce the vacancy rate. With more money for advertising and campaigns, additional customers should also be attracted in order to better establish the Glacis Gallery in the city.

Most of these projects were implemented by the spring of 2017: a total of 38 new seating options, 80 plant pots were installed and the doors were replaced. In addition, cell phone reception and orientation options in the parking garage are to be improved in order to further increase the quality of stay. In a survey of 525 customers, more than two thirds of those questioned gave the Glacis Gallery a grade of 2 or better. According to the center management, however, the poor performance in the retailer survey from last autumn is currently deterring new tenants, which is why they want to bring the center more into social networks by means of photo motifs on the unlet shop fronts .

Connection

Thanks to the neighboring Neu-Ulm train station and the central transfer point (ZUP), the Glacis-Galerie is optimally connected to public transport . The federal road 10 , which was rebuilt at the Reuttier Strasse intersection to withstand the increased traffic volume, as well as the federal roads 28 , 30 and the more distant motorways 7 and 8 ensure a very good connection to the road network.

Trivia

Since the summer of 2016, the Glacis-Galerie has made 240 parking spaces in its parking garage available for long-term parkers and commuters. This goes back to an agreement between the city of Neu-Ulm and the shopping center, which was made after the neighboring parking garage at Neu-Ulm train station was closed. The Glacis-Galerie has extended the opening times of its parking garage from Monday to Saturday to 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Web links

Commons : Glacis-Galerie (Neu-Ulm)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glacis Gallery: Confidence instead of “Plan B” - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on January 29, 2011
  2. ↑ Directions & parking. Glacis Gallery website. Retrieved June 18, 2016 (German).
  3. ↑ Building application for Glacis-Galerie (video) - REGIO TV Schwaben ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. , accessed November 1, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regio-tv.de
  4. ↑ Glacis-Galerie: Investor buys the residents' approval - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on December 21, 2012
  5. ↑ The Glacis Gallery is to be built in 2015 (video) - REGIO TV Schwaben ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. , accessed on May 10, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regio-tv.de
  6. ↑ There is an end to hesitation and doubts - construction work on the Glacis Gallery is now under way - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on May 10, 2013
  7. ^ The night of the gallery - Neu-Ulm's shopping center opened - Südwest-Presse from March 19, 2015 , queried on March 20, 2015
  8. ↑ Millions for the fight for customers - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on September 2, 2012
  9. ↑ Blautalcenter completes an extensive renovation of Südwest-Presse on November 6, 2015, requested on December 31, 2015
  10. ↑ If you love your bike, you wear it - at least through the Glacis Gallery - Südwest-Presse of March 20, 2015 , requested on March 20, 2015
  11. ↑ Rentenfonds buys Glacis-Galerie Südwest-Presse on October 6, 2015, requested on December 31, 2015
  12. ↑ Neu-Ulms Neue Mitte - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on January 29, 2011
  13. ^ Glacis Gallery: The hut is getting full - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on June 6, 2011
  14. ↑ a b With hits for box office hits? In: Augsburger Allgemeine . March 31, 2017, accessed on March 31, 2017 (German).
  15. ↑ Glacis-Galerie is now gaining momentum - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on May 23, 2011
  16. ↑ Neu-Ulm's new problem area - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on January 29, 2011
  17. ↑ Nothing new in Neu-Ulm - Südwest Presse ( memento from September 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), queried on October 19, 2011
  18. ^ Glacis-Galerie: Citizens still have doubts - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on June 6, 2011
  19. ↑ INNENSTADT-HANDEL: Two in one go - Südwest Presse ( memento from May 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), queried on June 6, 2011
  20. ^ Controversy over Glacis-Galerie continues - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on September 29, 2012
  21. ^ Glacis-Galerie: The start of construction now depends on the plaintiffs - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on December 21, 2012
  22. ↑ Glacis-Galerie: Investor buys the residents' approval - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on December 21, 2012
  23. ↑ Bad grades for Glacis-Galerie. In: Südwest Presse . September 28, 2016, accessed on September 28, 2016 (German).
  24. ↑ Neu-Ulmer Glacis Galerie is working on a better image. In: Südwest Presse . March 31, 2017, accessed on March 31, 2017 (German).
  25. ↑ Europastraße as a permanent construction site - Neu-Ulmer Zeitung , queried on May 10, 2012
  26. ↑ Space for 240 long-term parkers in the city center. In: Südwest Presse . May 13, 2016, accessed June 18, 2016 (German).
  27. ↑ Parking spaces for the city center - Neu-Ulm reaches an agreement with the investor. In: Südwest Presse . July 11, 2016, accessed on July 11, 2016 (German).

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 15.5 ″  E