“We get things moving“: Adlershof Projekt’s planning and development team create foundations
Activities include planning tasks and the clearing and development of building plots to facilitate construction works and future utilisation for working and living. Without the team’s background activities, Adlershof’s success story would not have been possible.
Over the past 20 years, Adlershof has grown into an urban, vibrant business location – a development that was by no means a matter of course. In fact, an urban development concept and reliable building law had to be drawn up before the first business start-up centre, production facility or residential building could be established. Only after the completion of these basic prerequisites could the comprehensive development activities commence. Due to Adlershof’s increasing popularity, measures such as the clearing of contaminated sites, the demolition of contaminated buildings, and the construction of roads and utility lines continue to proceed to this day, being prerequisites for the subsequent sale of individual building plots.
“Development is essentially a background activity,” says Dörte Fritzsche, one of the planning and development team’s project managers. For years, her department has been busy providing “foundations” in both senses of the word. “We are glad whenever our work paves the way for the construction of a new building, be it a laboratory or office building, a shopping centre, or a commercial park. ”At present, the bridge for the suburban train is a visible point in case. Here, activities for the completion of the last section of Rudower Chaussee are in full swing. After the shifting of the required utility lines, the southern section of the pavement will be completed by September 2010 followed by additional sections of construction.
Development activities are under way in other areas of Adlershof, too. A new commercial area is to be created between the landscaped parkland and Groß-Berliner Damm. The remaining buildings on site have already been vacated and will be pulled down in 2011, after which, in 2012, a new road for the area is to be constructed. At the same time, Fritzsche focuses on the development of a new residential area next to the campus of Humboldt-University: a residential quarter with traffic-calmed zones, public green spaces and a playground located in a birch grove. The first families could relocate here as soon as 2012.
by Patrick Schneider