Skyscraper at the former police headquarters

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The skyscraper at the former police headquarters is a planned skyscraper project in Frankfurt am Main .

Planning history

The former police headquarters at the Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage (2013)

For over 80 years, the Frankfurt police headquarters was housed in a listed building complex at Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 11 in the Gallus district, built in 1914, and in 2002 the move to a new building on Adickesallee . Since then, the building, which is owned by the State of Hesse , has been largely empty and has only been rented temporarily, for example for the Club Praesidium 19/11 or as the cultural center of the German-African cultural association Wimbum.

The 15,000 m² plot of land for a 145-meter high-rise behind the listed building had already been included in the city of Frankfurt's high-rise master plan in 1998, and the State of Hesse had been trying to sell it to an investor since 2001. Allegedly excessive asking prices as well as the following lull in the market for office real estate after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 ultimately led to vacancies for years. Talks with investors and project developers about the future of the site were not resumed until 2010. At the beginning of 2011, after rats had spread out there, the property was cordoned off with construction fences. The consulting company BNP Paribas Real Estate Consult, which had previously checked the marketing opportunities for the property, was commissioned with the sales process.

In August 2011, the architect Jo. Franzke made a preliminary draft for the planned high-rise building with a gross floor area of ​​95,000 m². In addition, two hotels are planned on the property, including a 5-star hotel in the listed old building, as well as apartments on the edge of the block. A new road should lead over the property for better development. It was agreed not to disclose the status of the negotiations, which the State of Hesse is conducting exclusively with Benchmark Real Estate Development GmbH according to a newspaper report, but Hesse’s Finance Minister Thomas Schäfer (CDU) announced that he was planning to take 70 million euros with the sale of the property.

In July 2013 it became known that the sales negotiations were being further delayed due to unresolved building law issues. The main problem is the planned extension of the U5 underground line from Frankfurt Central Station to the Europaviertel . The underground route leads under the property, so that it may not be built on initially. According to the planning approval decision in June 2016, construction of the underground extension can begin in January 2017 and the first trains on the U5 line are expected to run from the end of 2022 Template: future / in 2 years. In the meantime, the city of Frankfurt favors the construction of a few hundred apartments, schools, daycare centers as well as social or cultural facilities on the property.

According to the press release of the Hessenschau on February 28, 2018, the area was sold with legally binding effect. The buyer is the project developer Gerchgroup from Düsseldorf, who now wants to negotiate with the city about a change in the development plan. According to the Gerchgroup press release of March 1, 2018, mixed use and the construction of a high-rise will be retained. The purchase price of € 212.5 million mentioned in the Gerchgroup's press release is well above the € 70 million in question at the time.

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Individual evidence

  1. newspaper article of the Frankfurter Rundschau from November 5, 2010
  2. Newspaper article in Journal Frankfurt from January 7, 2011
  3. Article in the Immobilien Zeitung from August 31, 2011
  4. FAZ newspaper article from August 31, 2011
  5. FNP newspaper article from September 1, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  
  6. newspaper article of the Frankfurter Rundschau from September 5, 2011
  7. newspaper article of the Frankfurter Rundschau from June 29, 2016
  8. FAZ newspaper article from January 30, 2017
  9. hessenschau.de, Frankfurt, Germany: Old police headquarters in Frankfurt is sold | hessenschau.de | Economy . In: hessenschau.de . February 28, 2018 ( hessenschau.de [accessed April 10, 2018]).
  10. Hesse sells the old Frankfurt police headquarters to GERCHGROUP · Gerchgroup. Retrieved April 10, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 34 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 30 ″  E