MIPIM 2019 (24.1 MB)

Positions & Options
As a development company for aspern Seestadt Vienna, we are entering the year 2019 with great
optimism. This year, various very attractive office offers will be launched in our Seeparkquartier
business hotspot - while Vienna as a whole will record one of the lowest completion rates for office
properties in recent years. In this area as well we have very good starting conditions for the new
quarter, the quality of which is also reflected in the new usage mix.
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In the Seeparkquartier in aspern Seestadt, this will be the privately-financed rental and owned
apartments that are being built in a pedestrian zone in a prime location with underground connections
and access to the lake. These properties benefit not only from the top location, but also from
the mix of high-quality office spaces, shops on the ground floors, restaurants and leisure facilities.
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That depends on the asset class. In the case of purely residential land, it is highly probable that
prices will no longer rise appreciably.
Gerhard Schuster,
aspern
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First of all, it is definitely digitization and here I can see some key aspects that we are working
on intensively in the Seestadt area. With the DBS Club we are also dealing with "Digital Building
Solutions" that take the entire cycle from financing to planning, construction and operation into
account. Furthermore, smart home solutions are increasingly in demand from users and make a
lot of sense from our urban development perspective – at best, they not only provide comfort for
the individual but also contribute to resource conservation and our sustainability goals. This is a key
research aspect of Aspern Smart City Research (ASCR), for example. Projects that are working on
supplying energy at the local neighborhood level are also along the same line. Locally generated
and used energy in a small-scale association is an incredibly exciting topic in new development
areas. Secondly, especially in Vienna the Smart City will continue to carry a lot of weight. We in the
Seestadt see ourselves as the Urban Lab of the Smart City Vienna and are working on the topic
far beyond its digital aspects. This begins with mobility and open space planning that contribute
to "urban resilience" and extends to our innovation of the "managed shopping street" as a control
element for all local supply within easy reach in a city. Last but not least, it is and remains the good
usage mix that enhances real estate and urban districts. This makes aspern Seestadt extremely
successful even by international standards.
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In 2019 we will get the final development phase of the Seeparkquartier off the ground. A number
of the 14 projects will be completed this year and by 2020 the quarter should be largely completed
so that by 2021 we can finish the surfaces, plant the green areas and set up the outside furnishings.
Just as important for us is the beginning of the building construction in the Quartier Am Seebogen,
north of the lake. This will again be very diverse, industry will play a major role, but also new social
infrastructure with kindergartens, the second school campus of the Seestadt and exciting cultural
offerings. We must therefore prepare the infrastructure in spring 2019, for which the planning
work has been in full swing since last autumn. Starting in 2019, the Seestadt will also noticeably
position itself as a hub for digitization processes by linking the many players and projects even
more closely than before. These include Pilotfabrik 4.0 at the TU Vienna, the Austrian Center for
Digital Production (CDP) and shortly the Manufacturing Innovation Hub of the European Institute
of Innovation and Technology (EIT) at the Technologiezentrum. And we will be even more active in
our efforts to promote further flagship projects in the area of Smart City Solutions - the framework
conditions could not be better than in our case.
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