The joint venture between the bema Group and the ABG Real Estate Group is developing the sustainable Green Campus on a site measuring just over 14,000 square meters in Cologne. The currently built-up and completely sealed area will be returned to the urban community in the form of a modern and green campus concept. Three free-standing and terraced buildings are to be built by 2030 according to the plans of the architectural firm ingenhoven associates (Düsseldorf). These will be linked by attractive path concepts, green spaces, play and activity areas as well as recreational facilities, creating the Green Campus as a whole. The development plan is now to be developed on the basis of the urban planning design.

The bema Group is selling part of the ZOOBLICK project in Krefeld, directly opposite the zoo, to the Gelsenkirchen-based housing company VIVAWEST. An exclusive residential quarter will be created there in a historically evolved, leafy location on the site of the former Herkula paint factory. The total living space of the ZOOBLICK quarter is around 5,400 square meters. "In VIVAWEST, we have found a buyer with strong implementation skills who will make a valuable contribution to easing the housing situation," says Ralph Schneemann, Managing Director of the bema Group. "We also know the company very well and have already come to appreciate it as a trustworthy partner in 2017 with the sale of a large residential development in Düsseldorf city center and in 2022 with the sale of a construction site on the former Pierburg site in Neuss." The building permit for the ZOOBLICK project has been granted and construction is expected to start this year. VIVAWEST plans to complete the project at the beginning of 2025 and both parties have secured the realization of the project. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The bema Group is selling the already developed plot of land - which also includes the building permit plans - for three apartment buildings with a total of 58 apartments, which will be built on a 5,270 square meter plot. Around 1,630 square meters will be allocated to a new building on Uerdinger Strasse. The one- to four-room apartments planned here, ranging in size from 33 to 106 square meters, will have balconies with a view to the south towards the green areas of Krefeld Zoo opposite. Front gardens, which are directly accessible from the first floor apartments, can be used by future residents as green oases of relaxation and also enhance the streetscape. The design for the entire ensemble was created by Düsseldorf architects Konrath und Wennemar Architekten Ingenieure. The sales process was accompanied by LINKed Immobilien, Essen.

The bema Group, the ABG Real Estate Group and COFO-Entertainment GmbH have concluded a rental agreement for interim use, bringing a crowd-puller to Cologne: On November 2, the Banksy exhibition opened in the halls of the former Dresen car dealership on Oskar-Jäger-Straße in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. "The Mystery of Banksy - A Genius Mind" can be seen until March 17, 2024. Since the world premiere in Munich in March 2021, more than 1.8 million visitors have seen the exhibition about the exceptional artist, making it the most popular and most successful show about the street art superstar in the world.

Where cars were once sold, there is now space for culture: on Oskar-Jäger-Straße in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, the empty premises of a car dealership still stand. This is where the bema Group's Campus M project is to be built in a joint venture with the ABG Real Estate Group - a green, attractive campus with modern office space. But until that happens, the existing building can still be put to good use. On the bema Group's initiative, around 2,500 m2 will be made available for cultural events. For example, a three-day concert cycle by the Cologne artists' collective 3:6 has already taken place from 4 to 6 November.

On 8 November, the "Day of Reconstruction Culture" took place in Berlin, during which the Building Culture Report 2022/23 was published. The pressing topic: How do we rebuild our cities and what is the best way to deal with existing buildings? As a committed member of the Förderverein der Bundesstiftung Baukultur, the bema group is also concerned with questions of existing buildings. In the Yorck Offices Düsseldorf project, bema was in charge of the concept for the revitalisation of a central office location from the 1990s and worked out the potentials of a careful renovation of the building fabric and its aesthetic enhancement in a joint venture. The most recent example: As part of the Campus M project, we provide the "social and cultural return" in the urban environment of Cologne-Ehrenfeld with exciting art projects as interim uses.

The TRIGON office building at Schiessstraße 47-49 in Düsseldorf, developed by the bema Group, has already made an outstanding name for itself in recent weeks as the headquarters of top-class, internationally active companies. With the handover of the rental space to EPSON Deutschland GmbH, another important milestone has now been reached: As of today (15 June 2023), the Japanese technology group will move into its new German headquarters on the fourth and fifth floors of the multi-tenant property in Düsseldorf-Heerdt, relocating the company's headquarters from Meerbusch to the Rhineland metropolis after almost 20 years. In future, 120 employees will work at the new location. In addition to 3,000 square metres of ultra-modern office space, the ten-year lease plus renewal option also includes the use of two exclusive panoramic roof terraces. On this occasion, Henning Ohlsson, managing director of EPSON Deutschland GmbH, emphasises the excellent cooperation with the bema group: "For our company, the relocation of the German headquarters from Meerbusch to Düsseldorf represents one of the central projects this year. We greatly appreciate the professional cooperation with the bema group - not only in the timely construction of the office space in our new headquarters in TRIGON, but also in the selection of the location and preparation of the new Industrial Solution Center in Neuss. Once completed, we will find the best conditions here to present our diverse product range to customers from Germany and around the world in an attractive environment." The bema group had comprehensively supported EPSON in the search for a location for the Industrial Solution Center. In the end, the choice fell on a bema-owned property on the former Pierburg site in Neuss. This project - as a commercial part of a neighbourhood development - is currently in the building permit phase and will also be constructed by the bema group on a turnkey basis. Both lettings were managed by CBRE as part of a tenant representation mandate. Legal advice was provided to the landlord by the law firm Rotthege. With EPSON moving in, 90 percent of TRIGON's 10,300 square metres of total lettable space is now occupied. A 1,100 square metre area on the first floor, which can be divided into two rental areas, is still available. "The leasing successes to date confirm the outstanding attractiveness of the location in the business hotspot Düsseldorf-Heerdt and our strategy of creating new domiciles for global players in this prominent location of the state capital," says Ralph Schneemann, Managing Director of the bema Group. In 2014, bema had already constructed the SILIZIUM, an office building in the immediate vicinity for the European headquarters of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei.

The bema Group has sold a 4,545 m² building plot to the Gelsenkirchen housing company VIVAWEST. The building plot is part of the approx. 60,000 m² neighbourhood development on the former Pierburg site in the Barbaraviertel district of Neuss. On the 4,545 m² plot, 104 residential units are to be built, 46 of which will be subsidised flats - around one third of the publicly subsidised housing in the 1st construction phase of the overall project. Parallel to the purchase of the plot, VIVAWEST also took over the planning and the companies entitled to subsidies from NORD PROJECT Immobilien, Hamburg, in order to be able to realise the project. In the run-up, NORD PROJECT had obtained a valid building permit and funding commitments for the construction of subsidised and privately financed flats for the building project on the plot within one year. VIVAWEST will now realise the project and incorporate it into its own portfolio. Located directly on the Düsseldorf city border, a mixed-use urban quarter is to be built on the approximately 60,000 m² former industrial site. The majority of the urban quarter will be used for residential construction, the remaining 30 percent for commercial use - including a hotel, retail use and office space. A total of around 470 residential units are to be built, including publicly subsidised flats. A central, green neighbourhood square will be the communicative centre of the area. Adjacent to it, a new day-care centre is planned, which will round off the offer for the future residents. The entire neighbourhood will be supplied with sustainable, emission-free local heating by Stadtwerke Düsseldorf. The master plan for the energy-efficient urban quarter comes from the Düsseldorf planning office Konrath und Wennemar Architekten und Ingenieure, which was also commissioned with the planning for the residential construction.  

The bema group is building a new Industrial Solution Centre for EPSON Deutschland GmbH on the former Pierburg site in Neuss. In the immediate vicinity of its future headquarters in Düsseldorf-Heerdt, which was also developed by the bema group, the world's leading technology company will present new developments of printing systems, robots and projectors to its customers and set up modern testing and training facilities. The bema group submitted the building application for the new building in Neuss' Leuschstraße at the beginning of April. The lease agreement with a term of 15 years had already been signed in August 2022. The Industrial Solution Center has a total lettable area of around 2,600 square metres. Construction can start immediately after planning permission has been granted. If the construction work proceeds according to plan, EPSON will be able to move into the new Demospace building after approximately twelve months. It consists of a single-storey hall area and a two-storey office section. The building will be heated independently by air-water heat pumps. Photovoltaic systems are used to generate electricity. In addition, the roof areas are extensively greened. The property thus meets current standards in terms of environmental protection and climate friendliness and ESG criteria. This also includes the installation of parking spaces for electric vehicles and easily accessible storage facilities for bicycles. The new building thus fits perfectly into the sustainable mobility strategy of the future Pierburg site. With its clear architectural structure, the EPSON Industrial Solution Center embodies the structural entrance to the newly emerging quarter. "We see this as an initial spark for the development of the former factory site and a clear signal for the settlement of further commercial users," says Lydia Trucksess, the bema Group project manager responsible for the project.