If you ask project developers what they want to tackle in Frankfurt in 2023, you often only get reserved answers.

In view of rising costs and an uncertain economic situation, hardly anyone is making a commitment at the moment - especially not when it comes to large-volume projects.

Demand for offices is moderate, and the vacancy rate has recently risen again.

And for residential towers, the market situation has become even more difficult.

Many projects are not abandoned, but progressed much more slowly.

Gunter Murr

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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This applies, for example, to the most ambitious high-rise planning in Frankfurt, the so-called Millennium area on Hohenstaufenstrasse between the train station and the exhibition center.

Two towers are to be built there – the larger one would be the new leader in Frankfurt with a planned height of 288 meters.

The developer CA Immo wanted to start construction after the completion of the One high-rise at Skyline Plaza.

This tower was recently opened, but the company is taking its time with the new project.

Because of the geopolitical situation and the associated economic uncertainties, development has slowed down, reports CA Immo.

First, the design by the Frankfurt architect Ferdinand Heide was optimized and various feasibility studies were drawn up.

The developer does not give a schedule.

Another high-rise building possible

In the neighborhood, on the other hand, on the site of the former police headquarters, progress could be made in 2023.

However, not yet with the 175 meter high skyscraper and the new buildings, for which the building permit is awaited.

But the demolition of the stock will change the area in the next few months.

Only the old building on the Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage will remain.

Another skyscraper with a height of 130 meters could be built in the immediate vicinity on the site of the Matthäus-Kirche.

The property owner, Hamburger Becken Holding, is waiting for the necessary change to the development plan, which is currently in the process.

An architectural competition for the high-rise could be announced later this year.

A little further west, at Güterplatz, the high-rise development has been completed.

The apartments of the 100 meter high "Eden Tower" will soon be occupied.

A hotel is expected to open in the neighboring, around 130-metre high tower “The Spin” in the first quarter, with offices to let on the upper floors.

A little further west, at the Emser Bridge in the Europaviertel, you can watch a skyscraper growing this year.

There, together with a new trade fair entrance, the Sparda Bank Tower, which will be around 120 meters high, will be built.

A few weeks ago, the bottom of the excavation pit was reached, now it's going up, the laying of the foundation stone is planned for spring.

Opposite, further planning is being carried out on the 100 meter high office tower "Nion".

It is scheduled to be built by 2026.

On the former site of the ECB

In addition to this project, the developer Groß & Partner is planning to revitalize the high-rise building in the station district that was previously used by Union Investment.

A new draft is to be presented soon, the schedule is open.

Renovation work has already begun on the 90-metre-high former post tower on Hafenstrasse.

A new facade will be installed in spring.

In the case of the 43-meter-high beehive house on the Konstablerwache, this has already happened in part; the renovation should be completed by the end of the year.

However, it is unclear whether the conversion of the 96 meter high "160 Park View" on Grüneburgweg, which has been going on for years, will be completed this year.

Progress is most visible in the banking district: on the city's largest construction site, the "Four" project between Roßmarkt, Junghofstraße and Großer Gallusstraße, three of the four high-rise buildings have now reached a height of 100 meters.

The first buildings are to be occupied in 2024.

Then the floor slab in the fifth basement of the "Central Business Tower" on Neue Mainzer Straße will probably be concreted.

Because the building developed by Helaba not only rises 205 meters into the sky, but also 25 meters deep into the ground.

The tower on the prominent property, which was once discussed as the seat of the European Central Bank, should be completed in 2027.

By Frankfurt standards, the three high-rise buildings that are planned to be north of the main building of the Deutsche Bundesbank on Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse are small, each around 50 meters high.

Some of the existing buildings will have to make way for the expansion.

The last employees moved out at the end of November, and the Bundesbank has announced that demolition work will begin at the beginning of 2023.

The facade and concrete renovation of the main building will begin in autumn.

The new campus is scheduled for completion in 2029.

It is unclear what will become of the plans for a 67-meter-high skyscraper on Leonardo-da-Vinci-Allee on the Rebstock site.

The Berlin-based company DLE Land Development received planning permission for this last summer, but has now sold the project to an unknown buyer.

There is still no timetable for the up to 85 meter high skyscrapers "High Lines" and "Edge" planned in the city center.

Although work was done on the former Telekom property south of Stiftstrasse in the autumn, the construction site has now come to a standstill again.