We had a similar experience with the “Carlswerk” – an industrial site in Cologne-Mülheim. As a modern commercial campus, it has long attracted visitors with its companies and its wide range of services, catering, leisure and cultural offerings.
District Story
“Thinking ahead” for commercial districts. Districts made by BEOS.
When the industry began referring to office, industrial, warehouse and logistics properties as corporate real estate in the 2010s, the term did not yet have any connection with urban areas. The fact that it eventually did, however, is due to the new understanding within urban development that inner-city commercial districts are no longer considered separately, but as an integral part of urban infrastructure.
Designing urban spaces is an essential part of our vision for asset management of the future.
Active participation from all our partners is the key to creating vibrant and sustainable commercial spaces together.
This has led to relationships forming not only amongst the tenants, but also with the residents. This vibrant neighbourhood living has in turn had an impact on real estate and the way we have perceived, designed and developed properties ever since. Today we have a name for this too: “participation” – by which we mean equal participation, which is an essential feature of the BEOSphere. When we first let a commercial space to a theatre, it was clear to us that the term “corporate real estate” is not enough here. We had to think in terms of districts.
