Build, build, build is the maxim of Franziska Giffey (43, SPD). It goes without saying that the government comes by when the topping-out ceremony for around 1000 new apartments is celebrated.
By the end of 2024, the new “Halske Sonnengarten” district is to be built on Saatwinkler Damm – named after entrepreneur Johann Georg Halske (1814–1890).
There was an allotment garden on the site until 2019, now a total of 958 rental apartments are planned on five to eight floors. 191 of them with 6.50 euros rent per square meter. “A strong signal for the city,” he said Giffy in her speech. “1000 apartments in a project is a real house number.”
By the end of 2030 Red-Green-Red Build 200,000 new homes. “We have to grow in height, in density and in width,” said the governing body to the BZ. That is why the Senate decided to make things easier: “With the new building code, we have the opportunity to make attic conversions exempt from approval.”
Downer: The new quarter is right next to the Siemensbahn (discontinued in 1980) – but bridges, tracks and train stations are totally dilapidated and won’t be fit again before 2029.