In the latest issue of our Lebensraum magazine titled “Heimatliebe” (Love of Home), we took a trip to Stuttgart. Our CEO Reinhold Knodel also hails from the “Kessel”. Together with his son Patrick, we accompanied him on a walk through the Swabian metropolis and spoke with both about special places in the city, the cultural and linguistic quirks of the locals and their personal perspective on the concept of home.

At the beginning of September, a real estate expert discussion gave an exciting opportunity to take a look at the future of Ehrenfeld. Together with Alfons & alfreda and the networks of crenet e.V. and IMMOEBS e.V., we invited people to take a walk through the heart of Cologne´s Weststadt district to experience the promising development of this neighbourhood at first hand. The two major projects ‘PĀN’ and ‘THE WID’ will be built along Widdersdorfer Strasse in the coming years. During a tour of the properties, which cover a total area of over 20 hectares, around 100 participants had the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the previously inaccessible areas and the potential of what is probably the most dynamic development area on the left bank of the Rhine in Cologne and to ask questions. After the tour, we ended the evening together with our guests with delicious street food, cool drinks and interesting conversations on the former scrapyard site.

The knodel foundation now has a new name: ChanceMaker Foundation. As the main sponsor, we at PANDION AG are supporting this important step, which presents the foundation´s many years of work in a new light. The new name stands for the goal of supporting people worldwide in leading a self-determined life in harmony with the earth´s natural resources.

As part of this year´s "WohneNRW-Tage", State Secretary Daniel Sieveke from the NRW Ministry of Construction visited our PANDION VILLE residential quarter in Bonn on 30 August. Together with representatives and the management of Sahle Wohnen, we presented the new-build neighbourhood with over 500 residential units to the State Secretary. Representatives of the Alliance for More Housing NRW and other project participants also accepted the invitation to take a tour of the site of the former Gallwitz barracks. The neighbourhood was selected by the ministry as a showcase project because it is a good example of how subsidised and privately financed housing can come together harmoniously.