Garbe Industrial Real Estate marks topping-out ceremony at Lüneburg Logistics Centre

Garbe Industrial Real Estate GmbH has celebrated the topping-out ceremony for its new logistics centre in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony. The ceremony comes less than six months after construction began. The Hamburg-based company is developing the 20,200 square metre facility in the Gewerbepark Ost, located near the port and the Elbe Estuary Canal. Completion is scheduled for September 2025. The project represents an investment of approximately €27 million.

Maik Zeranski, Member of the Executive Board at Garbe Industrial Real Estate, expressed appreciation for the project’s progress and thanked local authorities and construction partners for their contributions. “The achievements from planning and approval through to construction are remarkable,” he noted during the event, which was attended by city representatives and stakeholders.

Garbe acquired the 33,000 square metre site at the end of 2022. Before construction began, the land was cleared of potential explosive remnants of war and older structures were demolished. Recycled materials from the demolition have been reused in the construction process, including as a base layer for the new building. “Our strategy is to repurpose brownfield sites for logistics and commercial use,” Zeranski explained.

The logistics centre will feature a hall area of 17,400 square metres, divided into two units, along with 1,000 square metres of office and social space and 1,800 square metres of mezzanine space. The facility will be equipped with 17 dock levellers and two ground-level sectional doors for truck loading and unloading. A sealing layer has been installed beneath the floor slab in one of the hall units, enabling storage of substances classified as hazardous to water.

The exterior will provide parking for 55 cars and five trucks, with some spaces pre-equipped for electric vehicle charging. Goldbeck has been appointed as the general contractor for the project.

Plans for the building include installing a rooftop photovoltaic system with a capacity of approximately 1.7 megawatts. Heating will be provided by air-source heat pumps, eliminating reliance on fossil fuels. Garbe aims to achieve Gold Standard certification from the German Sustainable Building Council for the development.

The facility is being built without pre-leased commitments, though discussions with potential tenants are ongoing. “We are in advanced talks with several interested parties,” Zeranski said. The logistics centre is designed to meet the needs of businesses seeking modern storage and distribution facilities within the Hamburg metropolitan area.

Located on the eastern side of Lüneburg, the site offers direct access to the A39 motorway, providing connections to the Maschener Kreuz interchange and onward routes to Hamburg via the A1 and A7 motorways. The Lüneburg Nord junction is reachable in about seven minutes via federal highways 216, 209, and 4, without the need to travel through the city centre. The Lüneburg port, offering access to the European inland waterway network, is located just a few hundred metres away.