The first office building to be created in the new Heidestrasse quarter will be a new building for the oil company TOTAL on the Europaplatz square. TOTAL Deutschland GmbH has already signed a rental contract with the city quarter developer Vivico. The brokerage firm Jones Lang LaSalle was involved in the deal as an advisory capacity.
The site borders directly on the northern forecourt of Berlin's new central railway station. Europaplatz connects the new inner-city Heidestrasse quarter in the district "Mitte" of Berlin with the central railway station, the Lehrter Stadtquartier (Lehrter quarter) and the government quarter. The architecture of the new building is currently being worked on in a multi-stage process involving workshops with architects, TOTAL, Vivico and the Berlin Senate. The workshops should be completed in the 4th quarter of 2009 and construction is set to begin in the 2nd quarter of 2010. The building complex should be finished by the 3rd quarter of 2012.
At 40 hectares, the total area of the new Heidestrasse quarter is twice as large as Potsdamer Platz. The new quarter will be marketed in future under the brand "Europacity". The major owners of the project area are Vivico (approx. 20 hectares), Deutsche Bahn AG (approx. 10 hectares) and the federal state of Berlin (approx. 6 hectares).
The Europacity quarter will be divided into two areas by Heidestrasse, which will be transformed into a landscaped boulevard. The boulevard will be flanked by office and business buildings. In some distance of the main road - in particular in the area around the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal - high-quality residential buildings will be constructed. An urban planning competition was carried out in spring 2008 for the development site. The results were included in a master plan, which was discussed by the Berlin Senate on May 5, 2009.
Large parks and green spaces, a promenade by the canal and a centrally located harbour basin will also guarantee a high standard of living. With the Kunst-Campus (Arts Campus), consisting of the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), the Rieckhalle with the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, the galleries in the Halle am Wasser, public exhibition spaces and many artists' studios, the first component of the new quarter have already been implemented.

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