A big step has been taken. In a joint meeting, State Secretary for Climate Protection and the Environment in Berlin Britta Behrendt, District Mayor Nadja Zivkovic of Marzahn-Hellersdorf and Managing Director Roland Sillmann of WISTA presented the next steps for the CleanTech Business Park Marzahn (CBP). The project is a Berlin first in terms of the interaction between industrial development and nature conservation.
“By implementing a habitat network, we are showing that industry and species protection are not at odds with each other,” emphasized Roland Sillmann. The aim is to establish future industrial technologies on the approximately 90-hectare site in the north-east of Berlin – while at the same time permanently securing habitats for protected species such as the green toad and the skylark. At the heart of this is an agreement between WISTA, the district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf and the Senate Department for Urban Mobility, Transport, Climate Action and the Environment, which sets out the framework conditions for developments that are compatible with industry and nature conservation.
The so-called habitat network is particularly innovative here: 20 % of the industrial areas are permanently designed as retreats, migration corridors and spawning habitats – integrated into long-term maintenance obligations of the investors. Compensation areas that have already been created on the site serve as an ecological backbone.
The entire area of the CleanTech Business Park is currently being mapped again for this purpose. The results of this mapping form the basis for the species protection assessment and the distribution of the areas. This will make it possible for companies to relocate to the CBP from 2026.
Berlin is thus setting an example: The CleanTech Business Park will become a model location for sustainable industrial space development – ecologically sound, economically viable for the future.
To the press report (unfortunately behind the paywall): CleanTech Business Park: Berlin’s largest industrial park combines settlement with species protection
