Berlin is growing and needs affordable housing. After the closure of Tegel Airport a new, smart residential district will be developed on its grounds. Schumacher Quartier closes the historic gap in the western sector of Kurt-Schumacher-Platz.
Schumacher Quartier will provide upwards of 5,000 homes for more than 10,000 people, together with the corresponding amenities such as schools, daycare centers, shopping facilities, and lots of greenery. A further 4,000 homes are planned for the neighboring districts of Cité Pasteur and TXL Nord.
As it will be a sustainable and socially diverse area, Schumacher Quartier will make an important contribution to the strategy for housing construction and urban development in the German capital. In a Charter all partners involved have agreed upon seven guidelines for the development of Schumacher Quartier:
- Urban living spaces
- Housing for everyone
- Urban green space and public areas
- Open educational landscape
- Climate-friendly and water-sensitive urban development
- District with environmentally-friendly mobility guaranteed
- Communication, participation, and transparency
In the immediate vicinity of Schumacher Quartier an innovation park for urban technologies will be developed on an area of 211 ha: Berlin TXL – The Urban Tech Republic. And the green technologies of the future that are developed and produced in the Urban Tech Republic will be used in the immediate neighborhood in Schumacher Quartier.
The total area of Berlin TXL (residential area, innovation park, and landscape park) covers a total surface area of 5 km2, which is about five percent of the metropolitan area of Paris.
Implementation timeline
- Middle of 2021: Acquisition of the grounds by Tegel Projekt GmbH
- Beginning fall 2021: Installation of site logistics, construction roads, elimination of contaminated sites
- Beginning 2022: Start of civil engineering works; allocation of land
- 2027: Completion of the first residential buildings and of the education campus
- Completion of the district is by the mid-2030s