Latest news

• Newly founded ecobuilding AG sets course for operating business
• Cooperation with RheinEnergie AG drives forward flagship project Cologneo Campus
• First successful talks with investors have taken place

• Gröner Group AG reports positive results for the fourth quarter of 2023
• New foundation of ecobuilding AG despite the challenges on the market
• Gröner Group AG continues undiminished focus on sustainability in its projects

• Dr. Peter Haueisen retires for personal reasons
• Günther H. Oettinger is the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board

• Gröner Group AG founds sister company ecobuilding AG
• From digitalisation to prefabrication: sustainability is the most important goal and driving force for the measures of ecobuilding AG
• ecobuilding AG is made up of four divisions: ecosolution, ecoprefab, ecomanagment and ecoenergy.
• First project: two precast plants with an investment volume of over 90 million euros each

Today is the “Day of the Homeless” – A special day of action to draw attention to the situation of homeless people. On this day, events, information campaigns and social initiatives are held around the world to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people without stable housing.

The nationwide company Gröner Group, which specialises in digital sustainable construction, today presented its first comprehensive sustainability report for the calendar and financial year 2022.

The nationwide company Gröner Group AG, which specializes in digitalized sustainable building, presented its future orientation and its response to the key challenges of real estate development in Berlin on Thursday evening. Under the term “ecobuilding”, the parent company of real estate developer CG Elementum will summarize its products in the future. At its core, ecobuilding stands for a new way of building and a new kind of buildings and neighborhoods.

The management board of the nationwide operating real estate developer CG Elementum AG as well as the management of the parent company Gröner Group GmbH have decided to compensate for the recent significant increase in the cost of living of the employees. The inflation compensation was initiated by the founder of the group, Christoph Gröner.

The Berlin-based Gröner Group is strengthening its management team with Ronald Pofalla as of May 1, 2022. Mr. Pofalla was appointed Managing Director by the company’s shareholders.

The former Minister President of Baden-Württemberg and EU Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger will strengthen the advisory board of the Berlin-based Gröner Group in the future. He will join the board as a new member on May 1, 2022.

Gröner Group has terminated its cooperation with Gerhard Schröder. Mr. Schröder’s mandates by Russian companies and companies affiliated with the Russian state, whose business activities contribute extensively to the financing of the Russian state and its military actions, stand in the way of further cooperation with Mr. Schröder.

Berlin-based Gröner Group GmbH is adding to its management team: Lars Schnidrig (49) will become managing director (CFO) of the nationwide real estate developer effective March 15, 2022.

The acute shortage of skilled workers is squeezing many sectors of the economy – including the construction and real estate industry. The lack of skilled workers is also noticeable at the Gröner Group.

In Karlsfeld, on the northwestern outskirts of Munich, the nationwide real estate developer Gröner Group is developing a forward-looking, mixed-use quarter for modern living and working on a site of almost 5 hectares. After part of the site had already been acquired by the Gröner Group in the course of the previous year, the Berlin-based company has now acquired further parts (construction sites 1, 4 and 5) of the new Anna Quartier.

Even though the weather didn’t quite cooperate, the Berlin Summer party at the Wannseeterrassen last Thursday was a complete success. Besides the wonderful view over the Wannsee, there were exciting and entertaining speeches, delicious food and refreshing musical performances.

Berlin-based Catella Residential Investment Management GmbH (CRIM) has acquired two residential properties in Hamburg and Dortmund from project developer Gröner Group GmbH on behalf of Catella European Residential Fund III (CER III). The total value of assets and management thus increases to more than €500 million.

In the Leipzig district of Paunsdorf, the Gröner Group today placed the topping-out wreath for its own innovation and further training center in the “Mansfeld Hallen” on Riesaer Straße.

Only 16 months after laying the foundation stone, the nationwide active real estate developer Gröner Group today celebrated the inauguration of the “Südtribüne” project south of Dortmund’s city center.

The nationwide specialist for the conversion and revitalization of commercial and industrial real estate CG Elementum AG has started the conversion of the Konradhaus in Mannheim. Nearly 20,000 m² of modern and sustainable office and commercial space will be created on Dudenstraße in Wohlgelegen/Neckarstadt-Ost over the next seven months.

In spite of automated processes, construction specialists and those in the skilled trades are anything but superfluous. In fact, the industry has long suffered from a shortage of new workers. That is why Christoph Gröner already started many years ago to draw up plans for an in-house training facility: the innovation centre in Leipzig.

Construction work on our Hofgarten Karree project in Karlsruhe is progressing steadily. Completion of the entire ensemble, consisting of three new buildings and six core-renovated listed existing buildings, is expected in about a year.

We are transforming the industrial wasteland around the former Wachendorf paper mill in Bergisch-Gladbach into the new “An der Strunde” quarter. For this purpose, we at the Gröner Group, together with our internal project developer CG Elementum, are revitalizing the area sustainably on the basis of the latest standards.

The nationwide active developer of residential and commercial real estate Gröner Group has completed the revitalization of the historic Bleichert Werke in Leipzig’s Gohlis district. Users and owners, planners, architects and project participants celebrated this together today with a colorful courtyard party. 

140 years ago, the Bleichert Werke in Gohlis was founded as the first and largest wire rope factory in the world. After an eventful history, the huge industrial ruin lay fallow for decades.

The Berlin-based Gröner Group, a nationwide developer of future-oriented sustainable residential and commercial real estate, supported homeless initiatives at the Group’s locations with food and donations in kind worth around 30,000 euros during the onset of winter last week.

6B47 Real Estate Investors AG has sold a package of three housing projects involving almost 50,000 m² of floor space to the Gröner Group. This includes a project on Freischützstrasse in the Munich district of Johanneskirchen, a property in Karlsfeld on the north-western outskirts of Munich and a site on Kleine Eiswerderstrasse in Berlin-Spandau.

Interview with Dr Rainer Fauth, Sustainability Project Manager at CG Plan GmbH

The Hofgarten Karree project in the Nordweststadt area of Karlsruhe is setting standards, not just in terms of quality and the way it combines modern new builds and renovated listed structures but also for its sophisticated e-mobility solution.

The advantages of prefabrication are obvious: on the one hand, highly efficient, cheaper and faster production, and on the other hand, the reduction of classic sources of error. Read the interview with Jörg Theves, plant manager at the EMC precast plant near Erfurt.

Berlin. What’s in right now? Getting back to essentials! Which makes the new CG Magazine very much in line with current trends. This year, it is not only the minimalist layout of the magazine that is so compelling but also its publication date.

The completion of the GE-101 office building is coming along in strides – on 17 September 2020, the topping out ceremony took place at the newly named Cologneo Campus site in Cologne, attended by our Managing Director Christoph Gröner.

Digitalisation in COVID times has enabled the first ever live streaming of a CG Elementum AG event. An evening of information on the OTTO Quarter in Wendlingen am Neckar took place both online as well as in-person at Treffpunkt Stadtmitte in Wendlingen.