Green light for one of Stuttgart’s largest urban development projects
With the unanimous approval of the development plan, the Stuttgart City Council has now paved the way for the urban quarter, one of the most important inner-city district developments of the coming years between the two university focal points. The development plan, which was drawn up in close coordination between the City of Stuttgart and the globally active real estate investment manager, represents a decisive step for the realisation of the mixed-use quarter.
On the site at Plieninger Straße 140, which was previously used exclusively for commercial purposes and largely sealed with parking spaces, approx. 146,000 m² of gross floor area is being built on six construction plots along a wide green joint running from north to south. The new quarter combines housing, modern office space, hotel and student facilities as well as local amenities, gastronomy and social infrastructure. The residential offer accounts for approx. 40% of the space and offers unique, high-quality open space planning in a contiguous and excellently connected urban quarter with short distances.
In the first construction phase, around 520 urgently needed apartments will be built on the two southern construction sites, 40% of which will be subsidized housing and about 300 privately financed apartments, two daycare centers for 11 groups as well as various local amenities and restaurants. The apartments, with a total gross floor area of around 61,000 m², are to be spread over four point buildings and two row buildings. To the north, facing Plieninger Strasse, three office buildings with a gross floor area of around 62,000 m² are possible, as well as the option of a hotel including long-stay offers with a gross floor area of around 23,000 m². For local companies, there is the opportunity for larger contiguous areas with a corresponding New Work environment. Here, too, leisure and dining facilities on the ground floor will provide a quality of stay. This will create a new area for living and working in a promising location with short distances as a real alternative to Stuttgart’s city centre.
“An important milestone has been reached with the resolution of the statutes. Together with those involved on the part of the state capital of Stuttgart, we have contributed to future-oriented urban development. It exemplifies how a formerly purely commercially used location can be developed into a lively, mixed-use district. Required housing, modern workplaces, social infrastructure and attractive open spaces are being created here. This is exactly the kind of project our city needs,” says Emanuel Coskun, Senior Managing Director at Hines.
With the Landhaus tram stop directly on the property, the connection to public transport and the city centre is excellent with only 18 minutes travel time today. In addition, according to the decision of the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG and the state capital of Stuttgart, the construction of a short track connection (“Möhringer Kurve”) will create a direct connection without changing trains for the students of the University of Hohenheim in the future.
By car, it is only a few minutes to the A8 motorway or to the city centre. The airport can be reached quickly by tram as well as by car. Local recreation areas are directly adjacent and the bicycle axis runs directly along the property.
The approximately 52,000 t of concrete previously used on the site were broken into usable material on site during dismantling and are to be reused 100% in the new building. “This has saved us almost 5,900 truck trips and almost 4,000 tons of CO₂,” explains Coskun. The heat supply is fossil-free via air source heat pumps and photovoltaic systems. About 11,000 m² of land area will be unsealed. Generous retention areas as well as retention roofs with intensively green roof areas in some areas make the quarter a “sponge city”.
