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Starts 12/31/2027 ESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCEA target, per the source^[1]: "completion of the first construction phase of the Urban Tech Republic^[2] and the Schumacher Quartier is planned for 2027," with the wider site continuing "toward the end of the 2030s."

Start: Dec 31, 202750% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Tegel Airport Becomes Urban Tech Republic

Berlin's Tegel Airport, built by Berliners in 90 days to keep the 1948 Berlin Airlift flying, is being redeveloped into the Urban Tech Republic research park and Schumacher Quartier housing district.

Berlin's former Tegel Airport is being redeveloped as Berlin TXL: the Urban Tech Republic research and industrial park with a university campus, and the residential Schumacher Quartier^[2][3]
Berlin's governing mayor handed the site to Tegel Projekt GmbH on 5 August 2021; the roughly 500-hectare site is planned over about 20 years, including a 150-hectare landscape area run by Grun Berlin^[2]
Schumacher Quartier has over 5,000 flats (CNN says about 5,000 homes) as a timber-construction, sponge-city, car-free-street district; the wider quarter is for more than 10,000 people^[2][3]
Terminal A goes to the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology, Terminal B becomes a startup and congress centre, and Terminal D a laboratory hub; the terminal ensemble by Gerkan, Marg und Partner is protected^[2][3]
The 2021 outlook for 2027 is that first tenants move into Schumacher Quartier, the education campus and central park are complete, the Terminal B centre opens and teaching starts in Terminal A (13 programmes, 2,500 students), provided planning and construction go smoothly^[2]
CNN's 2022 report cites a $7.9 billion project with completion scheduled for the end of the 2030s and notes Tegel lacks a rail link^[3]

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Cost $8B

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youtube.com/watch?v=d-LArPe1Rk0
youtube.com· Posted Sep 14, 2026· Starts Dec 31, 2027 ✓· 47% of score
A target, per the source: "completion of the first construction phase of the Urban Tech Republic^[2] and the Schumacher Quartier is planned for 2027," with the wider site continuing "toward the end of the 2030s."
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Berlin TXL - Handover of keys – Urban Tech Republic
urbantechrepublic.de· Published May 1, 2026· 28% of score
Urban Tech Republic's own site confirms the site handover occurred 5 August 2021, and separately states first Schumacher Quarter tenants, the education campus, and the central park "will also be completed by then," targeting 2027 - matching the pin's stored end-of-2027 estimated date.
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Berlin TXL: $8 billion project to transform Tegel Airport into an eco city – CNN
cnn.com· Published Apr 1, 2026· 25% of score
WebFetch could not retrieve CNN's page (HTTP 451, legal restriction); its title and 1 April 2026 publish date are consistent with ongoing coverage of the redevelopment's progress toward the pin's stored 2027 target, though unverified directly.

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