Linden-Center

Linden-Center opened in 1994 in Berlin’s Lichtenberg district, with approximately 75,000 sqm of gross leasable area as one of the largest enclosed shopping centres in the eastern Berlin residential belt and the commercial anchor for the prefabricated housing estates of northeastern Berlin. The centre is managed by CBRE Investment Management and serves the Lichtenberg, Hohenschönhausen, and Marzahn residential communities.

Lichtenberg is a northeastern Berlin district whose GDR-era character is preserved in the Stasi Museum (Gedenkstätte und Museum Stasi-Unterkunft), the site of the former East German Ministry for State Security headquarters, and in the large prefabricated housing estates of Alt-Lichtenberg and Fennpfuhl. Linden-Center was among the first major Western-style retail developments in the eastern Berlin prefabricated housing belt following reunification, providing H&M and mainstream retail services to a catchment whose pre-reunification commercial provision had been limited to GDR-era Kaufhalle stores. The centre’s scale — comparable to some West Berlin suburban retail concentrations — reflects the population density of the northeastern Berlin prefabricated housing belt. The U5 U-Bahn and S-Bahn Frankfurter Allee provide transit access from central Berlin.

Lichtenberg and the adjacent northeastern Berlin districts of Hohenschönhausen and Marzahn provide an immediate catchment of approximately 300,000 residents. The U5 and S-Bahn connections provide transit access to central Berlin and Alexanderplatz. The B1 arterial road provides road access across the northeastern Berlin residential belt.

CBRE IM manages Linden-Center as one of the largest enclosed retail investments in the eastern Berlin prefabricated housing belt, a commercial institution whose scale reflects the residential density of a GDR-era housing district that accommodates more residents per square kilometre than most Western European suburbs and whose retail demand sustains a commercial GLA that suburban equivalents in less densely populated German cities would not generate.