Weserpark

Weserpark opened in 1990 in Bremen’s Hemelingen district, adjacent to the Weser river and the A1 motorway, with approximately 75,000 sqm of gross leasable area as the principal out-of-town retail destination for Germany’s oldest Hanseatic state and one of the first major enclosed shopping centres in the northern German port city. The centre is owned by Commerzreal and managed within the ECE commercial portfolio.

Bremen is Germany’s tenth-largest city by population with approximately 565,000 residents and one of three city-states (alongside Hamburg and Berlin). The city’s historic Hanseatic merchant identity, reflected in the UNESCO World Heritage Rathaus and Roland statue on the Marktplatz, coexists with a port economy, an aerospace industry (Airbus Bremen), and the Mercedes-Benz Bremen plant that produces the C-Class and E-Class models. Weserpark’s A1 motorway position southeast of the city centre provides car-accessible retail for Bremen’s residential belt and the Lower Saxony communities south and east of the city. H&M and mainstream fashion and service retail serve the Bremen catchment. The motorway accessibility differentiates Weserpark from the Roland-Center community format in the southwestern suburb.

Bremen’s population of approximately 565,000 provides the immediate metropolitan base. The Bremen-Umland communities from Achim, Oyten, and the Weser meadow communities extend the regional draw. The A1 motorway provides access toward Hamburg (120 kilometres north) and Dortmund (230 kilometres south). The Weser river creates the southern boundary of the commercial site.

Commerzreal manages Weserpark as the primary out-of-town retail destination for Germany’s oldest Hanseatic city, a motorway-adjacent commercial asset serving a Bremen metropolitan catchment whose Airbus and Mercedes-Benz manufacturing employment provides a skilled trades and engineering workforce consumer base with income levels above the average of comparable North German cities without premium manufacturing anchor employers.