Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen

Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen opened in 2012 in Leverkusen city centre, North Rhine-Westphalia, adjacent to the Leverkusen Mitte town hall, with approximately 30,000 sqm of gross leasable area as the principal modern enclosed retail destination for the Bayer AG company city on the Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf. The centre is owned by Deutsche EuroShop and managed by ECE Projektmanagement.

Leverkusen is Germany’s most prominent single-company city after Wolfsburg: Bayer AG, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and life sciences corporations, was founded in Leverkusen in 1863, and the city’s economic, cultural, and social infrastructure has been extensively shaped by the company’s presence. Bayer’s campus occupies a significant portion of the city, the company maintains the Bayer 04 Leverkusen football club (one of the Bundesliga’s most successful), and the Bayer Culture Hall provides cultural programming for Leverkusen’s approximately 165,000 residents. Rathaus-Galerie provides H&M and mainstream fashion and service retail for the Leverkusen consumer base. The S-Bahn S6 connects Leverkusen Mitte to Cologne Hauptbahnhof in approximately 20 minutes and to Düsseldorf in approximately 35 minutes.

Leverkusen’s population of approximately 165,000 provides the immediate base. The Leverkusen-Bergisch Gladbach corridor catchment extends the regional draw. The S6 S-Bahn provides transit access to Cologne in 20 minutes and Düsseldorf in 35 minutes. The A1/A3 motorway junction provides road connectivity across the Cologne-Bonn metropolitan area.

Deutsche EuroShop and ECE manage Rathaus-Galerie Leverkusen as the commercial anchor for a Bayer AG company city whose pharmaceutical and life sciences employment creates a professional workforce consumer demographic with above-average household incomes relative to comparable-sized North Rhine-Westphalian industrial cities — a structural commercial advantage that the Bayer employment income premium delivers independent of broader economic cycles.