Bezirksamt Pankow
[Local Authority]
Rathaus Pankow
Breite Straße 24 A-26
D-13187 Berlin

Postal address:
Postfach 730113
D-13062 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 90295-0
Fax: +49 30 90295-2244
E-Mail: poststelle@ba-pankow.verwalt-berlin.de
Internet: www.berlin.de/ba-pankow

Wirtschaftsförderung
[Economic Development]
Fröbelstraße 17
D-10405 Berlin
Haus 6
Phone: +49 30 90295-0
Fax: +49 30 90295-6510
E-Mail: axel.hansen@ba-pankow.verwalt-berlin.de
Internet: www.pankow-wirtschaft.de

General information and locational advantages

Pankow and its thirteen neighborhoods offer diverse locations ranging  from the old-Berlin central area of Prenzlauer Berg to the nature reserve areas like Blankenfelde or Karow/Buch in Berlin’s outskirts. 370,000 people live in the district along the Panke river with an area of 10,000 hectares. This makes Pankow Berlin’s most populous district.

• All important commercial sectors can be found in Pankow, for example biotech www.campus-berlin-buch.de
• Industry and transport technology in Wilhelmsruh www.pankowpark.de
• Modern services in Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee www.gidak.de, www.backfabrik.de
• Innovative media technologies throughout the district
• Largest percentage of small, traditional trade/crafts companies per residents in Berlin

 
Location advantages

• The capital’s most populous district
• Continual population growth
• Potential for building new residential buildings
• Active start-up and entrepreneur scene
• Potential for commercial space
• Excellent transport connections on the A114 on the autobahn beltway, and to the city center via the main thoroughfares  Schönhauser Allee, Prenzlauer Allee and Greifswalder Straße
• Good public transport

 
 Attractive surroundings

• Art and cultural centers such as Pfefferberg or Brotfabrik
• Vibrant international music scene with institutions like Kulturbrauerei and tape.tv
• Schloss Schönhausen palace including a park and adjacent buildings
• Europe’s largest Jewish cemetary in Weißensee
• Weißer See lake with parks and tourist attractions
• Recurring festivals like the Blumenfest Weißensee (flower fest) or the river festival, Fest an der Panke, with popular art markets
• The Zeiss Planetarium at the former gas works
• Sports facilities including Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark and Max Schmeling Halle
• Many additional tourist attractions from TIC www.tic-berlin.de

Commercial districts in Pankow

Pankow offers entrepreneurs and young companies a wide variety of locations at which to put their ideas into practice.

The nine most important commercial districts are as follows:

PankowPark

• Ultra-modern clinker flair
• Total surface area: approx. 280,000m²
• One of the biggest single-location, state-of-the-art commercial districts.
• One of Berlin's greatest industrial memorials.
• Berlin's largest self-supporting hall (Length: approx. 250m; height: 22m; useable space: approx. 21,000m²).
• Over 1,800 employees working in more than 80 companies.
• Offices, commercial premises and workshops with modern communication facilities.
• Opportunities for co-operation and outsourcing
• Education, vocational and further training on offer

ABB Grundbesitz GmbH & Co. Objekte Berlin OHG
Mr Karl-Heinz Liefländer
Lessingstraße 79
D - 13158 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 91772200
Fax: +49 30 91772487
E-mail: karl-heinz.lieflaender@de.abb.com
Internet: www.pankowpark.de

Gewerbezentrum Pankow

• New construction erected in 1997 on the site of a former leather factory.
• 8 buildings with a total area of 35,000 m².
• More than 80 handicraft businesses and service providers.
• Pleasant surroundings with much greenery and a biotope with pond.
• Very good traffic/transport connections to the city centre and the surrounding area via the A114.
• Gewerbegebiet Pankow-Nord is only a kilometre away, offering scope for synergies.
• The Pankow start-up-centre "Go Panke" is also based in the newly-constructed building.

Gewerbesiedlungs-Gesellschaft mbH (ORCO-GSG)
Franklinstraße 27
D - 10587 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 390930
E-mail: info@gsg-berlin.de
Internet: www.gewerbezentrum-pankow.de

Gewerbegebiet Pankow-Nord

• Total area: 70ha.
• Of this, some 44ha is net building land.
• Fully- and partly-developed vacant plots upwards of 2000m² are available.
• Variable sizes provide greatest-possible flexibility in adapting to individual requirements.
• Parts of the area are earmarked as so-called "GI zones", i.e. for purely industrial use.
• Three-shift operation possible.
• Construction work may qualify for subsidies of up to 43% awarded under the Joint Agreement on Improving Regional Economic Structures (GA).
• The many green spaces guarantee a pleasant working environment.
• The Tengelmann group has already set up a logistics services centre on a 12-hectare site.
• Connections to the A10 and A114 motorways and B109 trunk road make the area especially attractive for transport firms.

Liegenschaftsfonds Berlin GmbH & Co.KG
Am Köllnischen Park 1
D - 10179 Berlin
Phone: + 49 30 223368-00
Fax: + 49 30 223368-97
E-mail: info@liegenschaftsfonds.de
Internet: www.liegenschaftsfonds.de

DGZ BusinessLifePark

• A site spanning 80,000m², with single offices, office suites and office floors with teleport from 20 to 2,000m².
• Conference rooms, offices and vehicles can be rented at short notice and by the hour.
• More than 1,400 parking spaces for staff, 150 short-term spaces.
• Bus stop directly outside, kindergarten, restaurants and shops.
• Weissensee Art College is situated on the DGZ site.
• The DGZ occupies a central position, only a few kilometres from the heart of Berlin and only 2km from the A114 motorway.

Treureal GmbH
Einemstr. 24
D - 10785 Berlin
Phone +49 30 2789 52274
Fax +49 30 2789 5219
E-mail: info@dgz-ring.de
Internet: www.dgz-ring.de

Campus Berlin Buch

• Close co-operation between research establishments, hospitals and companies provides the ideal basis for scientific exchange.
• Total utilisable area: approx. 26,500m²
• Innovation and business start-up centre (IGZ)
• Attractive conditions for commercial units for laboratory-office combinations in various sizes as well as individual laboratories and offices with shared facilities.
• Some 10,000m² of utilisable space may be added.
• Companies interested in moving onto the site can construct buildings themselves or commission BBB Management GmbH to do so for them.
• Thirty-nine companies with just under 550 employees
• The workforce has more than doubled since 1998.

BBB Management GmbH
Campus Berlin-Buch
Dr. Gudrun Erzgräber (Managing Director)
Robert-Roessle-Straße 10
D - 13125 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 9489-2511
Fax: +49 30 9489-3812
E-mail: gerzgra@bbb-berlin.de
Internet: www.bbb-berlin.de

Darßer Straße / Saaler Bogen

• A constructible area spanning 2.5 hectares, for the production industry and related firms
• Plots range from approx. 4,000 to 5,200m².

INKON Projektentwicklungs-und Planungsgesellschaft mbH
Berliner Allee 256
D - 13088 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 9253003
Fax: +49 30 9251439
Internet: www.inkon.de

Pfefferberg

• A creative interface on the border between the districts of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg
• Thanks to its excellent infrastructure and a population with above-average participation in cultural events, Prenzlauer Berg is open to new ideas and developments.
• The listed former brewery building conjures up an unusual and fascinating atmosphere.
• More than 21,000m² of commercial space is available for flexible use by the art and culture, service and commercial sectors.
• A 73-bed hotel is being built along Christinenstrasse.
• An underground car park below the hotel will provide car parking spaces for all companies situated on the Pfefferberg.
• The rental units is sub-divided into units either for fitting by the tenant or ready for use.

Pfefferberg Entwicklungs GmbH & Co. KG
Fehrbelliner Straße 92
D - 10119 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 4438-3485
Fax: +49 30 4438-3488
E-mail: public@pfefferberg.de
Internet: www.pfefferberg.de

Alter Schlachthof

• On the site of a former slaughterhouse.
• A modern, 50-hectare urban quarter with approx. 800 apartments will be erected here by 2006.
• Approximately 270,000m² of trading, commercial and service space will be provided in both newly-constructed and a number of renovated listed buildings.
• Ideal traffic/transport connections, situated near Alexanderplatz.
• Good connections to local public transport, the railway and national roads.

ses Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft Eldenaer Straße mbH
Hans-Jörg Schmidt
Thaerstraße 31
D - 10249 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)1805445169170
Fax: +49 (0)1805445169171
E-Mail: schmidt@ses-berlin.com
Internet: http://alter-schlachthof-berlin.de

Die Backfabrik

• An industrial building with a history stretching back as far as the 19th Century.
• 25,000m² of net utilisable space targeted specifically at young communication and media industry firms
• Generous and efficiently sub-divided high-tech offices with star-configuration wiring right up to each workplace.
• Cultural events and ongoing marketing further the location's unique and unmistakeable image.

Die Backfabrik
Saarbruecker Straße 36-38
D - 10405 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 4403161-1
Fax: +49 30 4403161-2
E-mail: vermietung@backfabrik.de
Internet: www.backfabrik.de

Business development in Mitte

The district’s economic development office answers questions about commerce, trade and business in the district, individual questions about starting or running a business, commercial law, relocation, analyses, funding and financing, addresses and contact with officials and administrative offices.

Your Contact:

Axel Hansen
Head of Business Promotion Office
Phone: +49 30 90295-5665
Fax: +49 30 90295-6510
E-mail: Axel.Hansen@ba-pankow.verwalt-berlin.de