A vibrant part of the city

Adlershof is more than a centre for technological innovation and media

Above all, Berlin Adlershof is an urban zone pulsating with life where 23,000 people are out and about on the streets each day.

Berlin’s smartest neighbourhood

Adlershof is growing in all respects. Having been a science and media location even decades ago, since the fall of the wall, the area to the southwest of Berlin has been developing into an ever more significant part of the capital – cutting-edge but unpretentious, lively, green and generously spaced. In fact, some people have come to call it Berlin’s smartest neighbourhood.

Not least due to its science clusters, Adlershof is one of Europe’s leading centres for innovative technology with roughly 15,000 people working in nearly 1,000 businesses as well as research and academic institutions. Add to that 8,500 students. “We have the ideal location for nearly all requirements,“ says Ute Hübener. “And there is room for much more.“ Hübener is Sales Manager of Adlershof Projekt GmbH, the State of Berlin’s trustee marketing the city’s state-owned properties. Generously spaced commercial areas along Groß-Berliner Damm offer room and infrastructure for the location of further producing companies, allowing for Adlershof to contribute to the reindustrialization of Berlin.

Not simply a technology park

For the core areas along Rudower Chaussee, the potential for creating office and commercial buildings hasn’t actually been exhausted yet. Therefore, the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment is paying special attention to the urban planning concepts of the investors. For Adlershof is not simply a technology park; it is a part of Berlin co-created and shaped by entrepreneurs and contractors.

Synergy effects between individual branches and institutions are a very practical matter in Adlershof. At lunchtime, professors and directors of research institutes can be seen carrying their trays and mingling with students and visitors. The atmosphere is both professional and casual. Old chestnut trees provide shade between modern low-energy houses while protected and renovated structures dating back to the first half of the 20th century call to mind Adlershof’s long-standing tradition as a media and science location.

The gateway to Adlershof

Increasingly pulsating especially near the two tram stations, Rudower
Chaussee is Adlershof’s main traffic artery flanked by grocery stores and flower shops, clothes and footwear stores, bookshops and opticians, as well as cafés, restaurants, medical practices, banks, day-care centres and hotels. But there is more to come. Located directly at the entrance to the City of Science next to Adlershof’s new S-Bahn station, a particularly attractive plot is available for purchase. Ideally suited for a company headquarters, this prime real estate is to become a magnet. “Whoever ends up building here,“ says Ute Hübener, “will help shape the gateway to Adlershof.“

By Gerlinde Müller for Adlershof Special