In the future, the North Cape will be in Offenbach.
It will be recognizable in a few years from a 120 meter high North Cape Tower.
At least that is what the plans for a commercial area between the Nordring and Kaiserleistraße provide, which is currently largely unused.
On the part of this 7.2 hectare area, which borders directly on the Autobahn 661, the Walker Group will develop the North Cape district at Kaiserlei on around five hectares.
Jochen Remmert
Airport editor and correspondent Rhein-Main-Süd.
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The development plan for the industrial area on the border with Frankfurt is in the list following a corresponding municipal decision.
According to the city, the preliminary draft of the plan will be made available for inspection from May 17 to June 18 in Offenbach's town hall.
The final resolution of the articles of association is expected next spring.
A special urban planning and design quality
The 120 meter high tower is not the only project on the commercial site at Kaiserlei, but it is the most eye-catching one. On the Nordring 150 site, 60,000 square meters of above-ground floor space is to be created in the tower. According to current planning, the tower will rise from a seven-story base building. It should be ready in 2026. According to information from the Thomas Daily industry service, the construction cost estimates amount to between 250 and 280 million euros.
As the Walker Group reports, following a call for tenders, various architectural offices have developed concepts for the building complex in parallel with the aim of presenting a special urban planning and design quality that takes into account the fact that it is the only high-rise location on the Kaiserlei and on top of that an absolutely exposed place in the city.
No "office wasteland"
A city park at the high-rise should be accessible to everyone and bear the name Nordkap-Park. For Mayor Felix Schwenke (SPD), the park is not just an accessory to the high-rise office building at the western entrance to the city, but a key project from the Offenbach 2030 master plan. but must also offer attractive office workplaces with a high quality of stay outside of the building. In order to provide a “high-quality and attractive business and service location”, the city uses the close proximity to the banks of the Main. This also fits in with the close proximity of the cultural and citizens' meeting point Hafen 2, where discussion events alternate with cinema and live music evenings.
Due to the fundamentally redesigned traffic routing at the Kaiserlei, this location also offers a direct motorway connection and thus a short, fast route to Frankfurt Airport. In addition, four S-Bahn lines connect the entire area with the Offenbach and Frankfurt city centers. Both core cities can also be reached quickly via the Main Cycle Path, which runs directly along the nearby banks of the Main. Apart from that, the entire area is directly connected to one of the fastest internet nodes in neighboring Frankfurt.
That is probably one of the reasons why the Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen had its Helaba campus built there with office space. In addition, the insurance group AXA has bundled regional branches there in a new building. And the car manufacturer Hyundai, which has already established its European and German headquarters there, continues to grow. Creditplus Bank AG and the Honeywell Group are also established at Offenbacher Kaiserlei. And finally, the developer Hamburg Trust is developing the new German headquarters of the technology company Danfoss on the corner of Nordring and Goethering.
All of this corresponds to the strategy that the Lord Mayor and Head of Economic Affairs Schwenke has been pursuing since taking office: he tries to make Offenbach attractive as a business location with a service-oriented and fast-acting economic development company.