Berlin Picks the Consortium to Bring the ICC Back
Internationales Congress Centrum, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEBerlin's[2][4] own press release fixes the day the decision landed: "Im laufenden Vergabeverfahren für das Internationale Congress Centrum (ICC) haben das Land Berlin und die als Bestbieterin hervorgegangene Projektpartnerschaft Quartier ICC heute, am 2. September 2026, eine Exklusivitätsvereinbarung unterzeichnet." That meets the city's hope of a decision before the end of 2026, so the year-end placeholder is replaced by the signing date; the ground-lease contract itself follows, with exclusivity running "bis zum 30. Juni 2027".
Berlin's abandoned, billion-mark ICC convention centre, nicknamed the 'spaceship', went out to tender for a 99-year ground lease, and the Land Berlin has now tied itself to one bidder: the Projektpartnerschaft Quartier ICC, which has until 30 June 2027 to negotiate the lease and a reuse plan built around events and the creative industries.
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