The approximately 50,000 square meter development site for the pioneering project is centrally located directly next to the main train station in the Lower Rhine city of Neuss on the site of the former Rheinische Schrauben- und Mutterfabrik Bauer & Schaurte. The P+B Group acquired the plot between Further Strasse, Josefstrasse, Weißenberger Weg and Zufuhr Strasse at the beginning of 2021.

By building the urban quarter on a previously industrially used conversion site, the P+B Group is already fulfilling a key sustainability requirement: using sealed areas instead of building on new, untouched areas. After all, conversion is the most ecological form of urban development.

NEULAND NEUSS will be a lively quarter with a mix of residential, living and working uses. Around 450 apartments are planned, including accommodation for students, trainees and senior citizens. The apartments are to be built as both rental and owner-occupied apartments in various sizes and living arrangements and for all generations. People from different social and cultural backgrounds will find a new home here.

Commercial areas and communal uses such as space for co-working, culture and gastronomy as well as for social encounters for young and old will be located primarily on the first floors. They will shape and enliven the public space and promote the urban character of the district. A combination of working and living is also planned for the first floors.

The local supply zone in the south of the quarter will offer residents and users everything they need for their daily needs. The construction of an apartment hotel is also planned.

The low-traffic inner development, which only provides for delivery, rescue and disposal, as well as keeping the neighborhood streets free of stationary traffic, ensure a high quality of stay and open space. The green areas, which are very spacious for this inner-city location, offer residents and neighbors places to linger and space for sporting activities. Grüne Furth will form the backbone of the urban quarter.

The sustainability and diversity of the district are also reflected in its biodiversity. For example, colorful and diverse planting with perennials, grasses, fruit trees and flowering hedges will be integrated into the open space planning. This will create new habitats for insects, butterflies and birds.

The P+B Group has attached great importance to adapting to climate change. In addition to the use of a conversion area, the extensive renunciation of the use of fossil fuels and an innovative mobility concept, NEULAND in Neuss is characterized by a whole bundle of other sustainability factors.

In particular, the plans include green roofs and façades, generous, green open spaces, rainwater utilization and heavy rainfall compatibility through rainwater management based on the sponge city principle and an urban structure that does justice to the microclimate, for example with regard to ventilation and shading.

The extensive avoidance of underground parking, which is made possible by the innovative mobility concept, and the construction of the buildings almost entirely without basements reduce the consumption of “gray energy”, which is required in the production of the building materials and during construction itself. It also reduces the amount of excavated earth that would have to be disposed of and thus the number of truck journeys required for removal.

For NEULAND, the P+B Group is aiming for circular construction in line with the cradle-to-cradle principle as far as sensible and possible: the use of environmentally friendly and recyclable building materials that can be used for another purpose at the end of their life cycle, as well as the reuse of previously used building materials.

In addition, per capita space consumption is also significantly reduced through a range of measures, for example through communal areas such as rentable guest rooms, communal kitchens, community rooms or shared roof terraces. Compact living space is achieved through intelligent floor plans and the extensive removal of storage areas into rentable storage boxes. This also reduces per capita space consumption and takes account of the concept of sustainability.

In addition to administrative tasks, permanent neighborhood management will strengthen social cohesion and the neighborhood spirit, for example by initiating and coordinating community activities. A neighborhood app with smart digital solutions is also being planned, for example with service and neighborhood offers for residents and users.