Forum Langen
Expansion of the city center as a win-win situation
In a prime inner-city location, directly at the train station of the Hessian medium-sized town of Langen, between Darmstadt and Frankfurt Airport, there is a former site of the local public utility company. The property covers a total of 17.000 m² and has been unused for a long time. At the same time, the town lacked sufficient shopping facilities to adequately fulfil its function as a supplier. The sale of the site to HBB was a win-win situation for all parties involved. As the start of a new residential area, HBB built the Forum Langen, a retail park, supplemented by a hotel building and three large residential buildings with a total of around 200 apartments along Weserstraße.
Complement the offer, set structural accents
The core of the project is the retail park with a rental area of around 8.800 m2In addition to a food market run by HIT, there are other specialist stores - textiles (Ernsting's Family), shoes (K+K) and household goods (Woolworth) - as well as services and restaurants. Operated by HBB Centermanagement GmbH, the center sensitively complements the existing offering in the city and rounds it off. The hotel with around 150 beds, a parking garage on the east side and the residential development to the north serve as the border for the retail use on Liebigstrasse. The facades and outdoor areas were designed together with the city - regulated by an urban development contract.
HBB has invested over 25 million euros in retail use alone. The shopping center opened in November 2020 in strict compliance with the Corona regulations applicable in the state of Hesse.
