Berlin-Zehlendorf: Senior living in a green villa district
A new senior care home with 138 nursing places will open in Berlin-Zehlendorf before the end of the year. In Fürstenstrasse, not far from the fashionable Mexikoplatz and the Grunewald, the investor HBB has built a modern home for seniors in need of assistance and care in a construction period of 22 months.
Berlin-Zehlendorf.// The Fürstenstrasse senior care home combines classic architecture with state-of-the-art equipment. At the end of October 2021, the investor, HBB Hanseatische Gesellschaft für Seniorenheime mbH & Co.KG based in Hamburg, handed the house over to the operator, DOMICIL Seniorenresidenzen SE. It is already HBB's 16th senior care home in Berlin. All houses built by the investor are retained by the investor and operated by DOMICIL. The Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf alone now has five DOMICIL senior care homes. "In the middle of life" is the operator's corporate motto, which is also being fulfilled in the new facility. Mexikoplatz with its inviting cafés, restaurants and shops is only a few hundred meters away from the new building. Embedded in the historic villa district and the green streets of the district, the senior care facility offers its future residents a high degree of social participation opportunities and metropolitan infrastructure. Ernst Reuter, elected mayor of Berlin in 1948, lived not far away on Bülowstraße.
The building is located on a corner plot that was formerly a nursery. Almost 12.500 m2 is the size of the plot. It therefore offers enough space for a park-like garden with a large ballroom terrace. The house itself has two full floors and a converted attic with dormer windows typical of the area. Its historicizing architecture fits harmoniously into the surroundings. Inside, the new senior citizens' home offers space for 138 residents and all modern amenities, such as a modern cafeteria, which is also open to the neighborhood for use. Like all HBB facilities, the new senior citizens' care home in Zehlendorf is in the premium segment. It has its own kitchen where fresh food is cooked every day - for residents, visitors and guests. The concept also includes an in-house laundry - which makes much more sense for ecological reasons than delivering and collecting laundry over long distances and in heavy inner-city traffic, explains HBB Managing Director Oliver Radünz. HBB therefore fundamentally rejects locations where these concept modules cannot be implemented, he says.
Classic inpatient care with opening to the neighborhood
"With this concept, our newest senior care home in Berlin is also consciously opening up to the district, of which it wants to be perceived as an integral part in the future," emphasizes Radünz. HBB's strategy is to build classic stationary senior and care facilities in central urban locations. A concept that has been successfully established on the market for senior real estate in Germany for 20 years now. The project developer and investor from Hamburg has now built 43 senior care homes nationwide; all of them are operated by DOMICIL Seniorenpflegeheime SE.
In exchange with the district and neighbors
According to Radünz, HBB is also successful because the company always discusses its commitment with the local authorities responsible at an early stage in each project planning and takes their requirements into account. "We have also developed the construction project on Fürstenstrasse in very close coordination with the district over the years as part of a project-related development plan," says the managing director.
In addition to the operator's concept, the decisive factors for the acceptance of a new care facility are "the right choice of location, a precise location analysis and a tailor-made property for the respective location," says Radünz. This includes being sensitized to any concerns or wishes in the neighborhood of a new senior citizens' facility. In this context, Radünz reports on a local neighborhood initiative that "spoke out against planned residential development but in favor of our project" for the property in Zehlendorf. He also counts this as part of the success of the HBB strategy. Namely, communicating openly and transparently with those involved in a new location from the outset and thus ensuring "acceptance of a facility by the residents in the neighborhood" in the long term.
The fact that the new senior care center in Berlin-Zehlendorf is not lacking in acceptance is evident from the great interest shown by potential residents even before the official opening. And the owners and operators of the new home are confident that it will quickly achieve a good occupancy rate.
property profile
Address: Fürstenstraße 36, Berlin-Zehlendorf
Project type: Nursing home for the elderly
Plot size: 12.463
Project volume GFA: about 8.562 m²
Nursing places: approx. 138
opening date: December 2021
Website: www.domicil-seniorenresidenzen.de
Further information:
HBB Hanseatic Society for Senior Homes mbH & Co.KG
Mr. Oliver Radünz
Phone: +49 (0) 40 60 09 07-200
Fax: +49 (0) 40 600 907-209
E-Mail: raduenz@hbb.de
