On 28 November, we laid the foundation stone for our new Cologne residential quarter PANDION COSY, marking the official start of construction. The traditional ceremony was attended by District Mayor Volker Spelthann and District Mayor Cornelia Weitekamp as well as representatives of HPP Architekten and Sahle Wohnen. The guests included other project participants and the first buyers of the high-quality residential units.

Together with HEIMLADEN, we are making a clear commitment to the future of electromobility: by 2030, more than 2,100 of the parking spaces in our current and future new-build projects are to be electrified.

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.