The Taunusanlage is increasingly becoming the Central Park of Frankfurt: With the new “central business tower” in the banking district, another high-rise is being built on the edge of the green area.

Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen and the companies involved in the construction have now announced a schedule for their project: The 205-meter-high office tower on the corner of Neuer Mainzer Strasse and Junghofstrasse should be ready in early 2028.

Rainer Schulze

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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The Landesbank has signed a contract with the construction company Züblin that will build the high-rise.

The tower will be built according to a design by the Frankfurt architects KSP Engel, which won the competition in 2001.

The project also includes a listed base building.

A branch of the Museum of World Cultures will be set up on the fourth floor of this porch.

Helaba wants to rent the planned 66,000 square meters of office space and not use it itself.

Helaba is overseeing the construction

A civil engineering permit is available; the building permit is expected to be issued in early 2022.

OFB, Helaba's project development subsidiary, will oversee the construction.

"With its open and sustainable concept, the central business tower sets new standards in the area of ​​high-rise development," says Helaba Board Member Christian Schmid.

The Strabag Group, to which Züblin belongs, specifies the construction time to be around six years.

The demolition of the existing buildings will begin in November.

The first tenants are expected to move in at the end of 2027.

The entire project should be ready in early 2028.

"We are pleased about the order for this spectacular project in the heart of Frankfurt", says Thomas Birtel, CEO of Strabag.

The company Dobler Metallbau is also involved.

KSP designed a double tower that is connected by a glass joint.

"As a publicly accessible high-rise building with a strong identity, it opens up to the city and mediates between green space, culture and the world of work," says Jürgen Engel.

The tower is an appropriate counterpart for the opposite towers of the Deutsche Bank.

With its timeless design, it defines a corner point on the park without obscuring the lines of sight.