Apr
Mike Josef's long-serving advisor and office manager, Marcus Gwechenberger, is to become the new head of the planning department in Frankfurt am Main. The SPD has decided this unanimously. Especially the cooperation in the city planning office and Gwechenberger's knowledge are decisive for the decision. Mike Josef emphasized that the studied geographer and sociologist knows
Mar
After the groundbreaking ceremony in February 2022, the foundation stone for the Sparda-Bank Tower was also laid on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Among others, Mike Josef (SPD), Head of the Department for Planning, Housing and Sports, Markus Müller, Chairman of the Board of Sparda-Bank Hessen eG and Olaf Kühl from Messe Frankfurt GmbH were present.
Oct
Just over three quarters of a year after planning permission was granted, the topping-out ceremony for the Timber Pioneer, developed by UBM Development and Paulus Immobilien, was held on October 26, 2022. The Timber Pioneer is Frankfurt's first office building in timber hybrid construction and is being built in Frankfurt's Europaviertel in the immediate vicinity
Oct
Adjacent to the new DFB campus, after five years of planning and one year of construction, the Rennbahnpark on the former site of the Frankfurt racecourse in Niederrad was opened for all Frankfurt citizens and visitors to the Main metropolis. Under the motto "City-Nature-Experience", the opening ceremony took place on September 24 in the presence
Sep
After 20 years of preliminary planning, construction can finally get underway: On the occasion of the start of construction for around 860 apartments in the climate protection quarter in Hilgenfeld, representatives of Mainova and ABG Frankfurt Holding, together with head of planning Mike Josef, presented the sustainable energy concept for the quarter. The development plan
Sep
International real estate developer CA Immo opened its latest high-rise project, ONE, on September 8. The completion of the 190-meter high-rise was celebrated after four years of construction with a ceremony on one of the upper floors. Among those present were the Hessian Minister for Digital Strategy and Development, Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus, the Frankfurt
Jun
In the Europaviertel on the site of the formerly planned Porsche Design Tower, a green office building with a height of over 100 meters is being built under the name NION. The design comes from the renowned architectural firm UNStudio from Amsterdam, which also planned the FOUR Frankfurt. The NION will occupy the last remaining vacant
Jan
The future of the vacant site at Opernplatz 2 is still unclear. But now new developments seem to be in the making around the planning of an approximately 60 meter high-rise building. The real estate company SIGNA Prime Selection AG had acquired the site diagonally opposite the Alte Oper in Frankfurt from Allianz Real Estate
It is (for good reasons) criticized that high-priced apartments are often being built in Frankfurt. However, this development was recognized many years ago by city politicians and they countered accordingly. Since 2014, that was the tenure of Planning Head Olaf Cunitz (The Greens), builders of larger construction projects have had to create at least 30%
Oct
The real estate company CA Immo, in cooperation with the City of Frankfurt, has launched an architecture competition for the so-called “Millennium Area” in Frankfurt's European District. The aim of the competition is to develop a mixed-use building ensemble with two high-rise buildings and a perimeter block development with a total gross floor area of
In the European District, two new high-rise towers will be built on the Millennium Area, where the original Millennium Tower was once proposed. Instead of one very high skyscraper, two new high-rise buildings will now be built, which together will fill the originally planned space. The project developer CA Immo expects completion around the year
Sep
The area of the former police headquarters in Frankfurt (top left in the picture), which has not been developed for a long time, is to be rebuilt. For many years there was a dispute between the State of Hesse and the City of Frankfurt about the project. The property is currently owned by the project
At the western end of the European Quarter (Europaviertel), around 2,000 new apartments are to be built on what is today the bus depot of the Frankfurter Verkehrsgesellschaft (VGF), Frankfurt's public transportation operator. In June 2020, head of planning Mike Josef (SPD) presented the planning for the Roemerhof project together with head of traffic Klaus
Jun
The architect competition for the planned new builds on the campus of the Bundesbank’s Frankfurt Central Office has come to a close. A jury of 13, made up of renowned architects and representatives from the Bundesbank and the City of Frankfurt, concluded two days of deliberations by selecting six prize winners and awarding two honourable
Jun
The B&L Group (B&L Gruppe in German) from Hamburg is planning a 17-storey office building as part of its Harbor Park Quarter development (HPQ; in German: Hafenpark Quartier) on the Hanauer Landstrasse street, which will mark the beginning of the district. On a floor space of approximately 10,500 square meters (113,000 square feet), more than
The Head of Planning in Frankfurt is leading the city's governmental body which is responsible for urban planning and construction in the respective epoch (currently this area is summarized in the Planning and Housing Department - called the Planning Department for short). At the city level, the department head performs similar tasks to a federal
Mar
On March 4, 2020, the Immobilien-Dialog Frankfurt am Main (lit. "Real Estate Dialogue Conference Frankfurt") took place with the motto "Infinite growth potential repackaged". At this real estate event in Frankfurt, politicians, representatives of the real estate industry and citizens discussed the creative scope and challenges of the growing city of Frankfurt. Following the specialist
Mar
You currently read on a weekly basis about rising prices for real estate. Regardless of whether it is for condominiums or if you live for rent: property prices have almost doubled in many areas of the Frankfurt city region. Although a lot is being built, high-priced apartments or micro-apartments are often built. More and more
A high-rise project called Das Präsidium (in English: The Presidency) will be built on the property of the former police headquarters at the Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage street. The plans for the high-rise first appeared in the 1998 high-rise master plan. A high-rise tower with a height of 175 meters (574 feet) was proposed on the approx. 15,000
Millennium Tower, formerly also called T365 (Tower 365), is a visionary and not yet constructed high-rise project in the European District of Frankfurt having a planned height of 369 meters (1,210 feet). The initiator of the plans for the Millennium Tower was EIM (Eisenbahn Immobilien Management, today CA Immo Germany). The concept for Millennium Tower
The RIVERPARK Tower was planned to transform the former office high-rise of Union Investment during a major renovation into an extraordinary landmark and residential tower with premium units and a boarding house, but it will not be constructed. With its spectacular open architecture, star architect Ole Scheeren was said to implement his first project in
The City of Frankfurt is using the 2022 High-Rise Master Plan to express its political opinion on how and where new skyscrapers are to be built in the future. Using this instrument investors and clients can better orient themselves. The planning department is currently working on updating the 2000 High-Rise Master Plan, which was last
Jun
Frankfurt is finally deciding to expand in order to allow for further growth of inhabitants, with a new city district now revealed. Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) presented the proposal of the Roman coalition of CDU, SPD and Greens for the location of the new district. In the west of the Frankfurt city area, the new
May
On 31 May 2017, the official foundation stone of the OmniTurm on the Neue Mainzer Strasse street took place. Participants included project developer Tishman Speyer from New York City, as well as the architect Bjarke Ingels. Frankfurt's Head of Planning Mike Josef (SPD) said "the OmniTurm is a high-rise, as we imagine it as a
May
The Frankfurt planning representative, Mike Josef (SPD) intends to allow new high-rise developments in Frankfurt only in clearly defined areas. As is apparent from various press publications in the last few days, "speculation" is to be counteracted. The new high-rise plan, which is to be presented next year, is intended to cement appropriate development requirements.
Four high-rise buildings named FOUR Frankfurt are currently built on a site formerly used by Deutsche Bank, and will form a new urban quarter. Two of the towers are planned for living space, with areas for office and commercial use. Due to its special location in the middle of the city center skyline, adjacent to
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