New shopping center at the train station Ten Brinke sells Maximilian Center in Bonn for 112 million Euro
Bonn · Just the shell of the construction has been erected of the Maximilian Center near Bonn’s train station, already Ten Brinke has sold the project. Also, the company has opened its own offices in Bonn.
According to GA information, the shopping center was bought by the supplementary pension fund of the Bavarian municipalities, under the roof of the Bavarian Supply Chambers, which is the largest public law supply group in Germany. The contract was already signed in June 2017 with Ten Brinke.
The Bavarian group will also own the business passages in the underground train zone from next year on.
Albert Ten Brinke had already announced early on that the business ensemble will change hands. „It was important to us that the property will be in sound hands. Our focus lies completely on (the) sustainability“, said Moritz Tank, project manager for the Ten Brinke group, in an interview with the GA. Once Ten Brinke finishes the construction, the ownership will change over to the new owners.
„It’s going well“, said Tank. „Even though it remains exciting.“ The companies involved in the construction keep finding surprises in the ground - like a solid foundation, probably left after a crane was erected on top it for the construction of the Southern overbuilding and the underground system. It was located underneath the former chipper, City Pick, and stuck out underneath the road. That foundation had to be excavated in a complicated effort.
First shops will open this year
„That didn’t come as a surprise really, because the entire area was dug open between the Bonner Loch and the former Kaiserhallen“, remembers Tank, a Bonn man by birth. „We do it differently now and put our crane in the middle of the building, so it can reach every side of the site.“
Despite surprises like this causing delays, the company holds on to the ambitious plan to open the first shops in the ground floor already this year. In spring 2019, Primark will be handed the building construction - the fashion company wants to design the interior spaces on their own.
The renting-out of the 22 retail spaces is practically completed. A few former tenants are returing, new contracts with Rewe To Go, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Backwerk have been signed. „There will be a considerable gastronomy mix“, said Tank. And more quality of choice for commuters, who use the trains in the main station and the trams.
Ten Brinke opens Bonn office
The projects of the Ten Brinke Group in Bonn and the region have reached such dimensions that the international property company has now opened its own Bonn office. Beside the Maximilian Center and the two GIZ buildings near the Trajektknoten, there’s also a new Post construction in the planning phase. Five employees are working currently on one floor in the Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße, seven more are to follow.
„We look after the entire Rhineland from Bonn, all the way to Mainz and Frankfurt“, said managing director Ilja Keller. The enterprise has its main offices in the Netherlands with more than 700 employees and a revenue of approximately 700 million Euro.
The company also has subsidiaries in Spain and Greece. The decision to open an office in Bonn has another advantage for the company in the shape of commercial tax.
The firm’s philosophy provides that as many task intersection points as possible in the development of new properties will be taken care of in-house - and that’s not just the development and planning but also the implementation of a project. The company employs its own lawyers and notaries also.
(Original text: Dylan Cem Akalin, Andreas Stanetschek Translation: Mareike Graepel)
