Overview
- Alba Berlin, which presented a feasibility study to the Berlin parliament’s sports committee on Friday, outlined a multi-use campus in Adlershof built around a new arena sized for about 16,000 to 20,000 spectators.
- Club leaders said the NBA Europe application is due March 31, with the league targeting a 2027 launch that Marco Baldi called extremely ambitious, while 2028 remains possible.
- Costs are estimated in the high hundreds of millions of euros and financing is not set, with interest from international investors and reports of a U.S. bank consortium as talks with the state on the publicly owned site begin.
- A best-case opening in the 2031–32 season would follow years of high rents and date clashes at Uber Arena, and Alba wants a majority stake in the new venue to ensure basketball takes scheduling priority.
- The proposed campus between the Adlershof and Johannisthal S‑Bahn stops would add a performance center, a school, a kindergarten, a boarding program, and club offices, and could host about 200 events a year including conferences that draw business to southeast Berlin.