Westertor Lübbecke

Early Christmas present for the city center of Lübbecke
The HBB and the construction company List Bau opened the doors of the new shopping center in the center of Lübbecke on Thursday morning, December 08.12.2022th, XNUMX. With the completion of the construction project, the western city center is coming back to life, as the project replaces the former Deerberg department store with a modern and diverse business district that will attract customers back to the city center in economically difficult times. Many new tenants complement the offering in the business center and the anchor tenant Marktkauf from the Edeka Group now operates the most modern supermarket in the region.
The long road to realization
The HBB has been holding initial discussions about the possible new use of the site since 2006. After numerous unsuccessful attempts by other developers, the HBB was able to convince the city with its new project idea in 2017. The necessary planning and approval phase was followed by demolition and subsequent construction in 2020. The demolition was carried out by Moß from Lingen, and the construction was carried out by List Bau from Nordhorn.
Shopping district strengthens the city center
The Westertor shopping district replaces the municipal parking garage and the former Deerberg department store between the pedestrian zone and the bus station. HBB used the excellent location and transport links in the city center to develop a modern retail property in Lübbecke. This strengthens the city center and closes existing gaps in the offering.
At the same time, the city built a new bus station in the immediate vicinity, which, despite previous concerns, is working extremely well. The areas of the old central bus station are now used for public parking spaces, which provide a new and attractive parking option for the city center and the shopping center.
Many new offers in the center
The tenant mix of the new complex offers space for several large tenants. With its MARKTKAUF concept, EDEKA Minden-Hannover will present itself as a modern, fresh-oriented full-range retailer with spacious service counters for meat, sausage, fish, cheese and baked goods. The drugstore retailer Rossmann is repositioning itself with a significantly larger store in the city center. The small department store operator SB-Lüning from Rietberg is offering a special offer. SB-Lüning is filling the painful gap left by the closure of the former Deerberg department store with an attractive and contemporary concept.
But it is not just the large retailers that determine the diversity of the new shopping district. As before, K+K-Schuhe will be a tenant in the new complex, and there will also be a new textile retailer with NKD, as well as the optician Apollo and the telecommunications provider O2. In the near future, two additional retail spaces will enrich the gastronomic offering of the new shopping district.
The project, with an investment volume of over EUR 20 million, comprises almost 7.000 square metres of rental space with nine tenants on two retail levels and direct access to 140 public and ground-level parking spaces.
The managing director of HBB, Harald Ortner, beamed before the opening and said: "We at HBB can be proud that we have completed this project on time and to such a high standard despite the adverse circumstances. Our special thanks also go to all project partners, especially the city of Lübbecke, which has always been cooperative with the project, but also to the architectural firm RKW+, the construction company List Bau and everyone else."