“If everyone had an ocean, then everyone would surf”, go the famous lines of the Beach Boy song ‘Surfin’ USA’, in the German translation. Where the pleasure of surfing was previously associated with flights to the Atlantic coast in Portugal, Biarritz or the USA, it will soon be very close, as the Munich airport community of Hallbergmoos is planning the world’s third commercial wave facility after Texas and Wales. The local council has now given the green light for the concept, which was planned by working groups from the Economic Development Agency, Studio . Urbane Strategien and experts and which two investors are now putting into practice. Seven days a week and up to ten months a year, surfers in Hallbergmoos will be able to get their money’s worth on waves up to two meters high. The plans include a complete open space concept with retail, restaurants, offices and a boulevard in the heart of the existing Munich Airport Business Park (MABP) office park. Approval planning is due to begin this year.
“With this concept, we are creating a place with special appeal in the center of the office park in the entire greater Munich area,” explains Harald Reents, First Mayor of the municipality of Hallbergmoos, on the occasion of the positive municipal council decision to implement the project. The project will be implemented on a good 32,000 square meters in the middle of the office park. In addition to the wave facility, it includes a multifunctional building that houses retail, gastronomy, working environments and a start-up center on more than 16,000 square meters.
A boulevard, a park landscape to linger in and a parking garage are also planned. “The ultimate goal is to create a highlight with the highest possible quality of stay that will also delight local residents, Munich residents and guests from Germany and all over Europe at the weekend,” explains Alexander Mademann, business promoter for the municipality of Hallbergmoos. In the run-up to the municipal council’s decision, a specially created municipal working group had already been working on the development of the area last year. Chris Boehm-Tettelbach, founder and CEO of planworx AG and a passionate surfer himself: “The wave facility of this kind is absolutely unique. We expect up to 400 surfers per day.” An operating company of planworx AG will run the facility.
The Rock Capital Group, which already manages the Skygate business campus in the MABP as owner and landlord, initiated the project and developed the concept together with planworx AG and will implement the realization of the multifunctional building within the overall project. “In addition to the unique retail and restaurant space, highly attractive office and event space will be created in the up-and-coming MABP, where more than 250 companies have already set up shop to date. The hybrid architecture with its mix of sports, leisure, gastronomy, retail and office uses creates an urban flair within the MABP,” says Peter G. Neumann, Managing Director of Rock Capital Group. Christian Lealahabumrung, Managing Director of Rock Capital Group, adds: “We are particularly pleased that we are able to realize a project with the municipality of Hallbergmoos and planworx AG that is unique in Germany and thus also in Europe and will be a unique enrichment for the companies of the MABP, for the region of Bavaria and especially for young and old. We will now start the approval planning immediately.”
Image material for the Hallbergmoos wave facility Maisch Wolf Architekten © Rock Capital Group
