The business location with much more to offer
aspern Seestadt A business location of international calibre. Situated in eastern Vienna, at the very heart of Europe. Superbly planned, with excellent infrastructure. An urban centre that appeals to both hearts and minds, with plenty of room for living a Full Life. An intelligent investment built on firm foundations.
Quality of Life Economic Drive 2,4 Mio 2.4m sqm total site area
50 %
50 % high-quality open spaces and green areas
2,2 Mio
2.2m sqm of gross floor space
9.500
9,500 sqm of shopping space in Austria’s first managed shopping street
5 Billion
5 billion euro total investment
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By 2028, aspern Seestadt will boast around 10,500 high-quality housing units for over 20,000 people, plus some 20,000 workplaces. aspern Seestadt is the ideal location for investors, businesses looking to locate in the area, property developers and discerning companies with high expectations. Excellent transport links, superb facilities, plenty of open space and freedom of scope for large concerns and large-scale projects, bold ideas and innovative start-ups. A reliable legal framework and intelligent quality management guarantee maximum investment security. Its vibrancy and diversity make Seestadt an attractive, high-quality living and working environment. In terms of building design Seestadt revives qualities that have largely been forgotten in recent years: small-scale, mixed-use structures take the place of large, anonymous blocks, while shops, cafĂŠs and restaurants and workshops at ground-floor level enliven the streets.
2 underground/metro stations
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7 bus services
27
27 minutes to Vienna city centre by U2 underground/metro line
2014
2014 The first Seestadt residents move into their new homes
6000
2016 Seestadt is home to over 6,000 people
High-quality public infrastructure, buildings, green areas and open spaces coupled with intelligent logistics, energy and mobility concepts underpin the sustainability of Seestadt.
The bonuses of Seestadt Solid planning The master plan, land use and zoning plan and positive environmental impact assessment of the development and road construction plan mean that the project is underpinned by exceptionally solid legal foundations. Excellent quality management guarantees that the high standards of quality and sustainability will be complied with over the entire development horizon of some 30 years. Open space Some 50 % of the Seestadt site consists of intelligently planned and designed open space. The 5-hectare lake with its surrounding park is the centrepiece of the development, complemented by an extensive network of well-designed footpaths and cycleways, attractive streets and squares and numerous smaller parks and green areas interspersed throughout the residential and commercial quarters. Mobility Seestadt offers excellent connections to a mix of fast, environment-friendly public transport options: underground/metro, tram, local, regional and intercity train services and buses. With the completion of the new main road serving Seestadt and the S 1 Regional Ringroad, Seestadt will also boast excellent links to the major road network. The international rail terminals and airports of Vienna and Bratislava as well as the Wiener Hafen port facilities are within easy reach, linking Seestadt to the rest of Europe and destinations worldwide. E-mobility and car-sharing facilities and an attractive network of footpaths and cycleways enhance the modal mix. Architecture Town houses accommodating vibrant ground-floor zones, shops, cafés and restaurants, flats and offices create space for urban life. Featuring high-quality, innovative architecture, the buildings at Seestadt boast intelligent energy concepts – all are built to at least lowenergy standard – and provide space
for flexibility and further development. Perfect for individuals with vision and businesses who care about sustainability, this prolongs the buildings’ useful life and enhances the return on investment. Diversity The mixed-use concept helps ensure a healthy work-life balance and is also a key business factor. High-quality housing for a wide range of different groups generates footfall for local businesses, while workplaces and shopping facilities bring purchasing power to Seestadt. The unique concept developed by aspern Seestadt Einkaufsstraßen GmbH in collaboration with experienced partner SES Spar European Shopping Centers ensures that all major sectors are represented in the city of short distances and that the retail mix on offer is as attractive as the rental yields for developers, who in return create appealing ground-floor zones. The shops are complemented by cafés and restaurants, local service providers and small businesses, while the social infrastructure includes a health centre, pharmacy, day nurseries and the Seestadt school campus. Construction logistics During the construction of the very first Seestadt quarter the high-tech construction logistics centre already demonstrated what the smart building site can do. To ensure compliance with the EIA specifications, for instance, existing materials like the concrete from the former airfield runways or gravel, sand and soil excavated to create the lake are recycled and reused on site. This has already saved developers and residents of the neighbouring communities 200,000 truck trips – and the environment some 2,200 tonnes of CO2 emissions. The smart building site will now move on to the Lakeside Park Quarter for the next phase.
Pioneers + projects Companies moving to aspern Seestadt count sunrise industries among their neighbours. aspern IQ technology centre The technology centre aspern IQ offers more than 20 flexible units for let, with space for some 250 workplaces. The manufacturing spin-off researchTUb, for example, offers applied research for businesses, while the research enterprise Aspern Smart City Research is a joint venture by Siemens and the Vienna utilities operators Wien Energie and Wiener Netze to study energy-efficient building technologies and power grids. Further innovative, technology-based firms at aspern IQ include abix, blitzzcar, Comdata Systemhaus, eurodata, Lima Austria, 3F Solar, SCL-Sensor.Tech. Fabrication and Theobroma System Design und Consulting. The complex also houses flexible, lowcost office space for start-ups offered by the Vienna Business Agency. 4.0 pilot plant Premiere at the innovation hub: the new 4.0 pilot plant heralds in a new phase of expansion in the innovation and business hub aspern. Austria’s first ever pilot facility is under construction at Vienna Business Agency’s technology centre aspern IQ - a vital building block for Austrian business and industry to create the urgently needed environment for the development of Industry 4.0 production technologies. 20 industrial enterprises and Vienna University of Technology are partners in the pilot facility, which was made possible by the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit). HOERBIGER Just down the road from aspern IQ is HOERBIGER, the first major global player at Seestadt, in new 24,000-square-metre premises housing around 500 employees. With its 30-million-euro investment HOERBIGER also intends to expand its strong R&D hub in Vienna. HoHo Wien The world’s tallest wooden skyscraper, the HoHo Tower caused an international sensation before building work even started. The Kerbler Group is investing some 65
million euro in its flagship project, which will shortly start taking shape in a prime location in the Lakeside Park Quarter at Seestadt. According to project developer Caroline Palfy, the HoHo Tower is a new form of commercial space for stylish working, shopping, wining and dining. The 24-storey high-rise contains approx. 25,000 sqm of gross floor space for restaurants, fitness and spa facilities, business premises, a hotel and serviced apartments. Lakeside Park Campus The Kerbler Group’s Lakeside Park Campus will be in characteristic “Seestadt style”, with integrated smart technologies in the work areas, flexible, multifunctional spaces, sustainable building methods using wood and other materials and landscaped outdoor spaces. The cutting-edge office campus consists of two slender buildings facing one other, each with approx. 12,000 sqm of gross floor space. The target audience for the project extends from recent start-ups to open-minded larger companies who value exchange and innovation. BUWOG Last but not least, BUWOG – Bauen und Wohnen GmbH is building 250 privately financed owner-occupied flats with a combined gross floor space of 28,000 square metres in close proximity to the shopping street. aspern INTERNATIONAL Accommodation for guests of Vienna’s universities is to be built on a central plot in the Lakeside Park Quarter by the end of 2017. The plans provide for around 140 apartments of various sizes for professors and academics on temporary teaching or research assignments at Vienna’s higher education institutions. This joint project by the City of Vienna, Wien 3420 AG and Wohnfonds Wien in collaboration with Vienna University of Technology and the University of Vienna aims to promote international exchange of expertise. The project is based on plans submitted for the aspern INTERNATIONAL ideas and design competition under the aegis of the VIENNA BIENNALE 2015, in which three invited project developers worked with one each of the shortlisted firms of architects to produce a draft design.The winning project selected by the jury will be announced in May 2016.
Today
“The most important resource in a smart city are people who plan sustainably and think of the generations to come. As the development agency for aspern Seestadt we apply this principle to every single aspect of our work, creating added value for businesses as well as for the people who live and work here.” Gerhard Schuster CEO Wien 3420 Aspern Development AG
Tomorrow Three phases of development 2009 – 2017 Wien 3420 AG lays out the green spaces and constructs the central lake and technical infrastructure. The first major phase of construction in the south-western section comprises a mixed-use neighbourhood with housing, offices, commercial enterprises, service providers and R&D facilities, plus Austria’s first managed shopping street. Innovative projects by community housing initiatives and over 300 student accommodation units add to the variety of affordable rented accommodation on offer. To the east, HOERBIGER is opening the first major production facility on the site.
In the Lakeside Park Quarter the Kerbler Group is constructing the Lakeside Park Campus as well as HoHo Wien, the world’s tallest high-rise timber structure incorporating office space, apartments and a hotel, while property developer BUWOG is building 250 attractive, privatelyfinanced, owner-occupied apartments with lake views. The first phase of the school campus comprising a kindergarten, full-day primary school and school for children with special physical needs opened in September 2015; the second phase with academic secondary school and vocational college will follow from 2017 onwards. Two underground stations went into operation in 2013, with a total of seven bus services following in the interim.
2017 – 2022 Seestadt continues its northward expansion. The mix of shops, services and amenities on the shopping street will be expanded and further optimized. The rail station and the road links to the A23 motorway and S1 Regional Ringroad will be completed, with an additional bus service and tram link also in the pipeline. New housing and mixed-purpose quarters will be developed along with the quarter around the rail station and the office quarter. Post-2022 The areas adjacent to the rail station, the shopping street and the U2 underground/ metro line will be densified and the use mix optimized.
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