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Berlin Recommends Private Consortium for 99‑Year Lease of ICC

The decision hands long-term development rights to a private project team and begins a two-year negotiation to settle financing, uses and permits before a parliamentary vote.

Die Zukunft des ICC Berlin im Architekten-Rendering
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Overview

  • The Berlin Senate on Wednesday, June 24 recommended a consortium led by MIB AG/Coloured Fields for a 99‑year Erbbaurecht over the long-vacant Internationales Congress Centrum to drive its redevelopment.
  • The consortium’s concept keeps the protected 1979 ICC shell and refocuses the site on culture, gastronomy and creative industries while adding a congress hotel and two new high‑rise buildings for hotels, offices and housing.
  • Officials set a roughly two‑year exclusive negotiation phase to agree financing, tenant commitments and lease contracts, with final Erbbaurechtsverträge and an Abgeordnetenhaus decision expected thereafter and an aspirational reopening around 2032 if deals close.
  • Preliminary cost figures estimate each new hotel tower at about €150–200 million and renovation of the ICC proper north of €400 million, and the state has said it will not provide ordinary budget funds for the project.
  • The plan faces political questions and technical hurdles because the ICC is a listed monument with hazardous‑material contamination, so funding, heritage approvals and concrete tenant anchors such as the Philharmoniker, TU or ZLB will determine whether the project can proceed.