LOOP5

LOOP5 opened in 2009 in Weiterstadt, south of Darmstadt in Hesse, with approximately 60,000 sqm of gross leasable area as a shopping and entertainment destination on the A5 motorway corridor south of Frankfurt. The centre is owned by Allianz Real Estate and positioned as a hybrid retail and leisure format serving the Rhine-Main south corridor’s car-dependent consumer market.

Weiterstadt is a municipality of approximately 25,000 in the southern Rhine-Main metropolitan area between Darmstadt and Frankfurt, characterised by its position on the A5 motorway that connects Frankfurt Airport to Heidelberg and Basel. LOOP5’s architecture incorporates aircraft-themed design elements referencing the proximity to Frankfurt Airport (20 kilometres north), Germany’s largest aviation hub and the main gateway for international visitors to the Rhine-Main region. The retail and entertainment mix includes cinemas, a leisure centre, and commercial retail serving the A5 corridor communities of the Darmstadt district. H&M and mainstream fashion and lifestyle retail anchor the commercial offer. The Frankfurt metropolitan area’s approximately 2.3 million residents provide the regional consumer base, with LOOP5 positioned to capture the car-dependent A5 corridor catchment distinct from the city-centre retail circuits of Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

The A5 corridor catchment south of Frankfurt, encompassing Weiterstadt, Darmstadt, and the Bergstraße communities, provides approximately 700,000 consumers within the primary trade area. Frankfurt Airport proximity creates an aviation worker and transit passenger commercial dimension. The A5 motorway provides direct access toward Frankfurt and Heidelberg.

Allianz Real Estate manages LOOP5 as a motorway-corridor retail and entertainment destination in the southern Rhine-Main region whose aviation-themed architecture and A5 position create a commercial identity distinct from the urban retail formats of Frankfurt and Darmstadt — a suburban destination whose commercial proposition is built on motorway accessibility, entertainment co-anchor programming, and the large-format retail occasion unavailable in the urban commercial centres of the surrounding metropolitan area.