• Purchase of three office buildings in Germany:
    • Hansastrasse, Dortmund, 19,000 m2 (Sold)
    • Silberstrasse, Dortmund, 4,200 m2 (Sold)
    • Bismarckstrasse, Berlin, 3,300 m2 (Sold)


  • Mixed strategy, including:
    • Lease up vacant space
    • Significant refurbishment
    • Wait for market recovery in Berlin
    • Sell buildings individually


    • View Investment Memo


        


 
  • Purchase 11,119 m2 department store leased to Karstadt (Karstadt vacated the space mid 2007)
  • Purchase of neighbouring 2,800 m2 office building
  • Strategy includes:
    • Redevelopment and sale of office space
    • Refurbishment and relet retail space
  


 
  • Purchase of 20,000 sqm monumental building in prime retail location in the centre of Leipzig. The Investment Strategy will involve a redevelopment of the assets into a mixed use building, of which the majority of the rental income will come from prime retail space on the ground floor. The building was purchased for only slightly above land value, allowing us to fully leverage the redevelopment potential.


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  • Leipzig Retail Refurbishment in Progress!
    October 2008


  • Handelshof Refurbishment Photos
    August 2008
    January 2008

   


 
 
  • Purchase of a mixed used office and retail building located directly on the prestigious Kurfürstendamm Nr 67, between Olivaer Platz and Adenauer Platz, with 604 sqm retail space on the ground floor and 3,973 sqm office space on 7 upper floors.
  • The strategy is to refurbish and relet the 330sqm vacant office space and to incentivize the main tenants to stay in the building to create a stable, income generating asset in a prime location. A light refurbishment is envisaged for space which will become vacant.


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  • Purchase of a mixed used office and retail building located on the corner of Frankfurterstrasse and Robert Boschstrasse in Dreieich, near Frankfurt. In total ca 17,000 sqm of rentable space: retail and fitness on the ground floor and office space on 6 upper floors. The strategy is to refurbish and relet the vacant office space and to incentivize the main tenants to stay in the building to create a stable, income generating asset in a good secondary location.


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  • Patron Makes Another Investment in Germany

   


 
 
  • Acquisition of two historic buildings (primarily vacant) in the city centre of Leipzig in a prime retail location
  • The two buildings offer approximately 11,000 sq m lettable space with prime retail frontage directly onto the high streets
  • University of Leipzig's business school has signed up for minimum 25% of office space
  • Strategy includes:
    • Increase the total lettable space in the buildings by approximately 15%
    • Utilise the ground floor for high end retail use
    • Refurbish and redevelop the remaining floors for primarily office and residential use

  • Katharinenstrasse Development Slideshow
     


 
  • Recently purchased department-store building in the prime retail area of Wolfenbuettel, a city near Hannover
  • The property currently offers 8,600 sq m of retail space
  • Major retailers such as H&M, C&A and Douglas have already indicated strong interest in teh redeveloped spaces - total expressed interest in the scheme of over 11,800 sq m
  • Strategy includes:
    • Secure vacant possession of the asset from the current occupier Hertie (in liquidation) - closureof store announced early June 09
    • Redevelop and extend teh building to transform it into a small city-centre shopping centre with increased retail, office adn restaurant space - total increase of over 35% lettable space to 11,800 sq m
    • Market the planned redevelopment to secure necessary pre-lets adn interest in the project before redevelopment