ECE Projektmanagement: Union Investment takes over Holiday Inn hotel development in Hamburg’s HafenCity

HAMBURG, 09-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Union Investment has secured the Holiday Inn hotel development in Hamburg’s HafenCity, directly opposite the university, for its UniInstitutional German Real Estate fund. The vendor and developer of the hotel is ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG. The turnkey purchase is subject to the standard closing conditions for this type of real estate transaction and will take effect on completion of the hotel in 2018.

The four-star hotel will be operated by lessee and franchisee tristar GmbH, which already runs one Holiday Inn and two Holiday Inn Express hotels in Germany. Both brands belong to the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), a leading global hotel company with one of the industry’s strongest reservation systems. Holiday Inn is the hotel chain’s second largest brand.

“Our strategy for the fund is to achieve broad diversification in terms of products and locations. The acquisition of a second hotel property for the portfolio reflects our commitment to that goal,” explained Dr. Christoph Schumacher, a member of the management team at Hamburg-based Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH. “Hamburg remains an attractive destination for business and leisure travellers alike, and the Holiday Inn in HafenCity is set to benefit from that demand,” added Schumacher.

Work is due to begin in mid-2016, with completion scheduled for mid-2018. The building is designed to meet HafenCity “Gold” Ecolabel sustainability standards. The new Holiday Inn will offer 268 rooms and 29 parking spaces just 100 metres from the nearest subway station, with the main railway station only three stops away.

About Union Investment
Union Investment is one of Europe’s leading real estate investment managers. Its real estate solutions include open-ended retail and special funds plus service and pooling mandates, with total assets under management currently totalling around EUR 31 billion. The company provides its investors with a stable and effective platform that combines strong property acquisition performance with a value-oriented asset management approach. Its broadly diversified and actively managed property portfolio covering 24 national markets and five continents comprises over 320 properties in the office, hotel, retail and logistics sectors. Following this acquisition, Union Investment’s Hamburg hotel portfolio consists of seven properties, including the Motel One on Ludwig-Erhard-Straße near the Reeperbahn, the five-star Steigenberger Hotel on Fleetinsel and the Scandic Hamburg Emporio. For more information please visit www.union-investment.com/realestate

About ECE
Since 1965, ECE has been developing, planning, building, letting and managing large-scale shopping, office, traffic and industry properties, including company headquarters, office high rises, transportation buildings, industrial buildings, logistics centres and shopping centres. In total, ECE has realised more than 977,000 sq m of office space, approximately 550,000 sq m of logistics space and more than 1,500 hotel rooms. ECE’s successful track record includes the new ThyssenKrupp Quartier in Essen, Philips’ German headquarters in Hamburg, the main stations in Leipzig, Cologne, Hanover and Vienna, and the Motel One hotels at Vienna’s main station and in BahnhofCity Wien West. As the European market leader in city-centre shopping malls, ECE manages 196 shopping malls (43 of which are operated as part of a joint venture with METRO Properties by MEC Metro-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG). Taking all ECE centres together, approximately 21,000 retail tenants across 7.2 million sq m of retail space generate annual sales of EUR 23 billion. These shopping centres include Milaneo in Stuttgart, Aquis Plaza in Aachen, the mall at Leipzig’s main railway station and Marmara Park in Istanbul. Numerous other centres are either under construction or at the planning stage across Europe, including Loom Bielefeld in Germany and Verona Adige in Italy.

Press contacts
For Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH
Fabian Hellbusch
Head of Real Estate Marketing, Communication
Segment Management Department
Union Investment Real Estate GmbH
Tel: + 49 40 3491 94160, fax: + 49 40 3491 95160
E-mail: fabian.hellbusch@union-investment.de
Internet: www.union-investment.com/realestate

For ECE
ECE Projektmanagement
Christian Stamerjohanns
Spokesman / Head of Public Relations
Tel: + 49 40 60606 6898
E-mail: press@ece.com
www.ece.com

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ECE Projektmanagement: Union Investment takes over Holiday Inn hotel development in Hamburg’s HafenCity