Life on the green outskirts of Berlin
More than just another residential development: The “PrinzenQuartier” in Königs Wusterhausen
Life on the green outskirts of Berlin
In Königs Wusterhausen in the Dahme-Spree district, southeast of the federal capital, the investor and project developer HBB will complete its "PrinzenQuartier" in autumn 2021. In a construction period of around 36 months, a complex residential quarter with 131 residential units embedded in greenery was created. The modernly designed terraced, semi-detached and townhouses have already all been sold. Life at the gates of the big city: it's trendy.
King Wusterhausen// With around 36.600 inhabitants, Königs Wusterhausen is the largest town in the Dahme-Spreewald district. Forests, lakes and sights such as its castle characterize the small town in the Mark Brandenburg, which is steeped in history. It offers the people who live here a great and varied range of leisure activities. With its proximity and convenient transport links to the metropolis of Berlin, the town - located between the Tesla mega-factory currently under construction and the now completed new Willy Brandt capital airport - is also in a region that is becoming increasingly stronger in terms of infrastructure. Living space, work, culture and secure local supplies: the residents of Königs Wusterhausen can therefore enjoy all the advantages of the big city at any time and at the same time lead a life in the countryside outside its gates.
Surprised by the sales success
Oliver Radünz, Managing Director of HBB Hanseatic Care and Investment Company, sees this awareness, coupled with the ever-decreasing supply of housing in Berlin, as one of the reasons why
that all residential units in the new PrinzenQuartier were sold at an unexpectedly high rate. “We were a little surprised by our sales success. Neither the long-awaited completion date
Neither the airport's closure nor the Corona crisis have slowed down our sales efforts. "We had expected sales to decline during the lockdown phases - but the opposite was the case," says the HBB managing director looking back.
Corona has certainly strengthened people's decision to live outside the city, says Radünz. The pandemic has led to "the fact that one's own home - and a small garden - as well as the possibility of a home office have become much more important even for people who have a great affinity for city life". The HBB customer structure in the new residential area reflects this: It consists not only of young families who are at the beginning of their professional lives, but also "of a whole series of successful, well-educated and high-earners in the middle of their professional lives who - here the pandemic has certainly played a role that should not be underestimated - prefer a terraced house with a garden to an attractive city apartment".
The new district
The PrinzenQuartier is located in the west of Königs Wusterhausen. The townscape here is characterized by small apartment buildings, semi-detached and terraced houses with gardens. In addition to educational institutions, various retailers, a supermarket, other service companies and doctors of various specialties are within walking distance. The new PrinzenQuartier, with a total of 64 terraced houses, 30 semi-detached houses and 37 townhouses, built on a total area of around 37.000 square meters, fits into this district. The terraced and semi-detached houses are built in classic architecture with gable roofs, solid solid construction and light plastered facades. The townhouses (two full floors with a recessed penthouse) are characterized by modern architecture with flat roofs and exclusive roof terraces. The HBB has invested a total of around 52 million euros in the ensemble.
The PrinzenQuartier project is a rigorous continuation of HBB's general focus in the area of housing construction, explains Oliver Radünz. The Hamburg-based company planned and built affordable terraced houses for young families 25 years ago. "In the area of housing construction, we are still interested in building condominiums in the Berlin urban area, but we want to expand the development of entire residential quarters and the construction of larger terraced and semi-detached house quarters," he says, outlining the future direction. "In addition to the Berlin area, the areas around our home base Hamburg are also possible - so some of the areas between the Baltic Sea and the Elbe, but certainly also the cities in and around Frankfurt and Munich that we are very familiar with from care and retail developments."
With the keywords "care" and "trade", the HBB managing director names two special features that distinguish HBB as an investor. In addition to housing construction, the company has also made it its mission, particularly in the last 25 years, to build inner-city nursing homes for the elderly and sophisticated commercial properties. "We have developed considerable expertise in this area," says Radünz.
Advantage: Know-how in inclusive and age-appropriate construction
The know-how from the area of senior housing benefits HBB customers in terms of sustainability and usability of living space for people in various life situations, whether old or young, with or without disabilities, even in "normal" housing construction; this is also the case in the new PrinzenQuartier: As an investor in the senior sector with 43 senior care homes under its ownership, his team and the HBB planners "have taken the issue of sustainability, senior citizen justice and inclusion to heart and soul," explains Radünz. However, a distinction must be made: While many HBB condominiums are always built to be senior citizen-friendly - "without these apartments and bathrooms thereby giving the impression of a senior citizen-friendly apartment," this option is only limited in the area of terraced and semi-detached houses due to the stairs that are inevitably unavoidable here. "But even there we regularly install floor-level showers and often wheelchair-accessible washbasins. But as with our senior care homes, we also attach great importance to good architecture and a stylish design," says Radünz. The aim is that functional aids should not be visually perceptible as such. "We are therefore delighted when we receive positive feedback from younger buyers for a successful and open bathroom design that meets high design standards, appears spacious without wasting space, but is also - unnoticed - suitable for the elderly."
More information:
Mr. Oliver Radünz
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 600 907- 200
Email: raduenz@hbb.de
