Hallen am Borsigturm

Hallen am Borsigturm opened in 1999 adjacent to the historic Borsig factory tower in Berlin’s Tegel district, with approximately 30,000 sqm of retail and leisure floor space in the converted industrial halls of the former Borsig locomotive works as one of Berlin’s most distinctive adaptive reuse retail projects. The centre anchors the commercial redevelopment of the former Borsig industrial complex in northern Berlin.

The Borsig Works were among Germany’s most significant industrial facilities, producing steam locomotives from 1837 and establishing Tegel as an industrial quarter of Berlin. The iconic Borsigturm water tower, built in 1924 in Expressionist architectural style, became the symbol of the former industrial complex and gives the current commercial development its name. The conversion of the industrial halls into retail and leisure space preserves the brick and steel architectural heritage while providing the northwestern Berlin residential communities of Tegel, Borsigwalde, and Reinickendorf with an enclosed retail environment. The U6 U-Bahn at Borsigwerke provides transit access from central Berlin. Berlin’s Tegel Airport, adjacent to the site until its 2020 closure, formerly created an airport worker retail dimension that has since transitioned with the airport’s decommissioning and the site’s ongoing conversion to the Berlin TXL urban development project.

The northwestern Berlin catchment from Reinickendorf, Spandau-Ost, and Tegel houses approximately 250,000 residents in the primary draw zone. The U6 provides transit access to central Berlin. The A111 motorway connects the centre to the Berlin ring road system.

Hallen am Borsigturm occupies a unique position in the Berlin retail landscape as an industrial heritage adaptive reuse project whose Borsigturm water tower has become an architectural landmark of the Tegel commercial development — a retail centre that simultaneously functions as a memorial to Berlin’s nineteenth-century industrial manufacturing heritage.