General information and locational advantages

• Pankow green
  
• Schoenhausen castle with its parks and out-houses
  
• The Jewish orphanage
  
• The Panke stream
  
• The Kulturbrauerei arts centre
  
• The Zeiss planetarium on the site of the former gasworks
  
• Friedrich Ludwig Jahn sports park and the Max Schmeling Halle
  
• The organic market on Kollwitzplatz
  
• The Brotfabrik arts and culture centre on the Prenzlauer Promenade
  
• Am Faulen See nature reserve, Berlin's largest urban reserve, at 25 hectares.

• Buch: Germany's leading biotechnology location.
  
• The German capital's most populous district.
  
• Positive population developments, continuous growth
  
• Thriving entrepreneurial activity
  
• Fully-developed commercial sites
  
• Wilhelmsruh, a long-established industrial, service and leisure area with 1,800 employees and trainees currently working in 80 companies.
  
• Excellent connections to the Berlin ring-road via the A114 as well as to the centre along the Schönhauser Allee, Prenzlauer Alle and Greifswalder Straße road axes.

Commercial districts in Pankow

• 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

Internet: www.pankowpark.de

• 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

• 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.

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.

Internet: www.dgz-ring.de

• 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.

Internet: www.bbb-berlin.de

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

Internet: www.inkon.de

• 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.

Internet: www.pfefferberg.de

• 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.

Internet: www.ses-berlin.com

• 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.

Internet: www.backfabrik.de

Business development in Mitte

Internet: www.pankow-wirtschaft.de