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Velten is planning a new residential area: 800 apartments for the Ofenstadt!
In Velten, up to 800 new apartments are planned on Nauener Straße to create urgently needed living space. The city council has pushed forward the plans, with construction possibly starting in 2028.
Velten is planning a new residential area: 800 apartments for the Ofenstadt!
Velten.A huge area of 214,000 square meters, the size of 30 football fields, lies idle on Nauener Strasse. A new residential project is to be built here that could create urgently needed living space in the suburban city. Up to 800 apartments could be built in several construction phases, but the first residents will have to wait until 2029 or 2030, as REG boss Philipp Gall explains.
The city council has now cleared the way for the construction project. An urban planning concept was adopted in 2018 that envisages the development of the area between Bötzower Straße and Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße. The mission statement was adopted in November and will serve as the basis for implementation until after 2030. The first construction plans stipulate that 60 percent of the new apartments should be built in multi-storey housing and 40 percent should be built according to the local model.
Issues of contention and citizen participation
But not everyone is enthusiastic. The AfD parliamentary group criticizes the project as an “excessive growth concept” and calls for the valuable biotopes that exist here to be protected. Parliamentary group leader Heiko Gehring warns of the ecological consequences and calls for concrete protective measures. On the other hand, the Pro Velten parliamentary group sees the need to create new living space in order to combat rising rental prices. Mandy Krüger from Pro Velten is also calling for citizen participation to clarify the size of the project and ensure that the new apartments are easily accessible.
REG plans to set up a subsidiary for project development after the Helma Group, which was originally commissioned to build it, filed for bankruptcy. Gall is optimistic that a new investor has been found. “There is an understanding that housing is needed,” he says, emphasizing that dense development does not fit Velten’s small-town character. Instead, he advocates an “airy approach to development” and leaves it open whether only 500 residential units will ultimately be built.