Peter Kiefer, head of the city’s building department, will be signing the respective contracts
The refugee accommodation project in the old post office will initially have a run-time of five years. Once the extension is complete, the building in Logenstrasse 37, which is owned by Hans Sachs, will offer space for 366 asylum seekers.

“The accommodation segment is going really well. But we must do more as regards gastronomy.” This was the conclusion drawn by the owner of the Saks Hotel at Stiftsplatz, Hans Sachs, in an interview with RHEINPFALZ. Sachs opened the hotel on 23 May 2011, ending a long phase of construction standstill at Stiftsplatz.

Completion of the structural work for the hotel at Stiftsplatz is in sight. From the square you can already see what the building will look like once completed. Stiftsplatz investor Hans Sachs started work on the recessed top floor, which was still covered by the existing building permit

Building shell at Stiftsplatz nearing completion. Investor Hans Sachs presented the plans yesterday for the completion. This is likely to herald the end of a political drama.

Mayor Klaus Weichel and Stiftsplatz investor Hans Sachs are presenting their plans this morning for the completion of the building shell at Stiftsplatz and its conversion into a hotel. The Kaiserslautern entrepreneur will be investing eight million Euros to complete the unfinished building at Stiftsplatz, thereby ending a long tale of woe…

… Hans Sachs.
Maybe you will run across him on the construction site. Or at least on what is to become a construction site in the next few weeks.

The new building for the work groups of the city and administrative district (ARGE), responsible for the disbursement of the unemployment benefit “Arbeitslosengeld II”, has been given the green light. Mayor Bernhard Deubig and Kaiserslautern entrepreneur Hans Sachs signed an agreement in the Town Hall on Monday awarding Sachs the right to build the five-story office building on one of his properties above Logenstrasse.

A new waterpark for Kaiserslautern: Yesterday the directors of the Freizeitbad Kaiserslautern Objektgesellschaft – a wholly-owned subsidiary of PRE – and representatives of the Monte-Mare Group, which will be operating the waterpark, handed over the building application to Mayor Bernhard Deubig. Construction will commence in April, the company is aiming for a construction time of 19 months. The project will cost 18 million Euros.

Art nouveau Villa Kröckel in Kaiserslautern sold to entrepreneur Hans Rainer Sachs by architect Folker Fiebiger.

RHEINPFALZ reader Bernd Dülm is worried about the future of Villa Kröckel at the municipal park. Dülm: “It is a pity that the most beautiful villa in the city has been in a state of slumber for over ten years.” The building from the Wilhelminian era survived all the world wars unscathed and is now going to rack and ruin.”

“The 17 February seems to be a special day for Kaiserslautern,” said Mayor Gerhard Piontek at the official start of construction for the multiplex cinema in Holtzendorff Park. In the context of Kaiserslautern having been awarded the hosting of the state garden show yesterday, the mayor said that on this day dreams had come true for the city.

Kaiserslautern entrepreneur Hans R. Sachs received his building permit yesterday for the planned multiplex cinema in Holtzendorff Park.

“We will tackle the development of the Holtzendorff barracks with seven league boots,” the spokesman of PRE Regional Development, Willi A. Fallot Burghardt, assured yesterday. He expressed his delight about the clear result of the vote, in which 35 council members had voted in favour of PRE buying the former barracks complex.

PRE Regional Development, one of the potential investors for the Holtzendorff barracks, wants to create more than 1,500 new jobs in the fields of industry, technology, research, health, services and leisure time on the grounds of the former French garrison. This figure was released yesterday by PRE spokesperson Willi A. Fallot-Burghardt during the presentation of a second stage concept for the acquisition, development and marketing of the complex.

VFour potential investors for the Holtzendorff barracks presented themselves to the city council yesterday. In a non-public meeting, they informed the city parliament about their ideas on the use and marketing of the 68-hectare site, of which approximately 30 hectares are to be used. The city has been granted the right by the regional inland revenue office of Koblenz to decide for itself on a suitable candidate for the development of the state-owned property.

The plan of Hanoverian company Omniplex to build a multiplex cinema with 2,200 seats on the BBK grounds has shocked the Kaiserslautern cinema scene. It is understandable that Wiedemann, Sachs & Co. are worried about their future as cinema operators.

Nothing was missing: the red carpet, the red rose from the hand of Charly Chaplin, and many enjoyable moments for the eyes, the ears and the palate. Last week marked the unofficial opening of investor Hans Rainer Sachs’ Central Film Palace in Osterstrasse, Kaiserslautern. 210 guests came from far and wide to celebrate with the 30-year-old Kaiserslautern entrepreneur.

The telephones never stopped ringing yesterday. When the ticket office of the new Central Film Palace finally opened at 7 pm, things started heating up even more. While the printers at the box office were churning out ticket after ticket, the staff at the reservations counter needed all hands to the deck.

The Union Theater has been leased to Hans Rainer Sachs. The Kaiserslautern entrepreneur successfully managed to acquire the cinema following lengthy negotiations with the owner, Fritz Hartmann. This was announced by Hans Rainer Sachs yesterday in an interview with RHEINPFALZ.

The plans for the conversion of the Central Cinema were approved yesterday by the building committee. This was announced by Mayor Bernhard Deubig in a statement to RHEINPFALZ. Now the plans must be still be reviewed by the municipal building inspection department.

Like a phoenix from the ashes he reappeared in the public spotlight this week – private investor Hans Rainer Sachs, who wants to bring a new cinematic experience to Kaiserslautern by reconstructing and expanding the Central Cinema in Osterstrasse.

It has become somewhat of an embarrassment for the “Saks” Hotel at Stiftsplatz. Each time a visiting team stays at the hotel and plays a match against FC Kaiserslautern, it emerges victorious. “We are gaining sympathy! Maybe outside of the city limits…”, the urban design hotel posted somewhat self-critically on Facebook after the home game of FCK against FC Köln.

Since May, Stiftsplatz has become one of the top addresses of the Kaiserslautern hotel sector: Hotel “Saks” welcomed its first guests. The attractive new building marks a new era for Stiftsplatz after a ten-year construction standstill.

I33 heavy rolls of carpet are lying on the ground floor of the Stiftsplatz hotel. The rolls are so heavy that it takes four men to carry them. It is the carpet for the 92 rooms of the hotel. A thick brown-coloured shag.

With the conversion of the shell structure at Stiftsplatz into a design hotel nearing its end, the city council’s Central and Financial Committee yesterday in closed session approved the so-called usage agreement between the city and investor Hans Sachs.

An unfinished hotel structure has been standing on a central square of the city of Kaiserslautern for more than ten years. After several investors have found the project a hard nut to crack, the local Sachs Group has now decided to put an end to this embarrassment and turn the building into the flagship it was meant to be from the very start.

Kaiserslautern entrepreneur Hans Sachs is the new Stiftsplatz investor. He wants to bring the drama surrounding the unfinished building to a happy end.

It was a game of poker right to the end: A bidding race had erupted for the award of contract by insolvency administrator André Gabel from Frankfurt. Kaiserslautern entrepreneur Hans Sachs decided the race in his favour yesterday. He will be converting the building shell at Stiftsplatz into a hotel.

Lost time: Entrepreneur Hans Sachs estimates a two-month delay of construction work on the ARGE building next to the main post office . The new development, in which the work groups of the city and parts of the administrative district (ARGES) will be based in the future, is to be handed over in July.

Kaiserslautern entrepreneur Hans Sachs extended the deadline for the construction of the new building at the train station. As reported previously, the new building could be used for the work groups of the city and administrative district (ARGE), who are responsible for the disbursement of the new unemployment benefit “Arbeitslosengeld II”. According to Mayor Bernhard Deubig, the new deadline is 28 October; the city is currently reviewing a second property that merits consideration.

“”We will be taking home many new ideas,” said the deputy mayor of Silkeborg, Jørn Würtz, after yesterday’s tour of the waterpark construction site in the PRE-Park. The delegation from the Danish partner city was particularly impressed by the size of the waterpark, which will be opening its gates in December. “It’s huge,” could be heard over and over again – not only referring to the 1,300 square metre water surface.

Launch of the Monte-Mare waterpark: The foundation stone was laid yesterday, after 412 days of construction the waterpark is to open next year on 2 December.

Hundreds of visitors took advantage of “Open Monument Day”, using this rare opportunity to have a look at Villa Kröckel from the inside. Large crowds pushed their way through the villa soon after the doors opened, many were still waiting on the street when the guided tours ended.

Structural work on the multiplex cinema, which Kaiserslautern entrepreneur Hans Rainer Sachs intends to build in Holtzendorff Park, will commence on 26 January.

The decision on the future of the Holtzendorff barracks was made on Monday in the form of a secret ballot. This, however, did not stop some of the political groups and council members from voicing their opinions, both during and after the session. Be it out of the conviction that an open vote is more transparent or out of the desire to take a public stance on a potentially controversial issue.

After acquiring the old Central Cinema, the qualified electrical engineer Hans Rainer Sachs pondered on what to do with this dilapidated, but beautiful building right in the centre of Kaiserslautern. After careful deliberation, he decided to continue using the building for its original purpose. But it was clear to him that he would need to invest a considerable amount of money for the renovation and a more friendly design.

Tuesday evening marked the grand opening of the “Central Film Palace” in Kaiserslautern, an event which attracted crowds of visitors and had the feel of an Oscar ceremony. Around 210 representatives from the large film distributors and the German Film Theatre guild, as well as celebrities from the world of politics and culture, celebrated together with Hans Rainer Sachs, the entrepreneur who converted the old “Central Cinema” for approximately 3.5 million German Marks. The historic facade of the cinema – which had been built in 1913 as one of the first major cinema palaces in Germany – was kept in its original form.

“We must work faster and in shifts,” Rainer Hans Sachs announced yesterday, referring to the old Central Cinema that he is converting into the Central Film Palace with five cinemas. Yet the entrepreneur remains optimistic that it will be opening in four to five weeks, as planned. Bernhard Deubig, the head of the city’s building department, offered his praise on the conversion: “The revival of the building preserves a historic monument for the city of Kaiserlautern.”

Die The plans for the conversion of the Central Cinema into the Central Film Palace are almost ready. Hans Rainer Sachs is now waiting for the green light from the municipal building committee, which will deliberate on the project on Monday. If the city grants him the building permit, Sachs hopes to start reconstruction in the summer break.

VA few weeks ago, the city published an invitation to tender. In it, the city is seeking “a suitable candidate who will offer support and guidance to asylum seekers and manage the shared accommodation facility in the former main post office, probably as of the fourth quarter of 2015.

The public reaction to the completion of the Stiftsplatz hotel is relief, joy and satisfaction. The email inbox of the RHEINPFALZ editorial department for this topic reflects this. Who would have thought in February 2000 that it would take all of eleven years to complete the ambitious Stiftsplatz project with its underground parking, space design and hotel building?!

Negligee – a new term is enriching the Stiftsplatz debate. Just when we thought we had seen it all in the matter of Stiftsplatz. Certainly not.

Mayor Klaus Weichel (SPD) is expecting construction work at Stiftsplatz to begin between mid and end of March. He announced this in an interview with RHEINPFALZ at the beginning of the year, referring to a statement issued by the new Stiftsplatz investor Hans Sachs

“No more promises, only action from now on,” says Sachs. He also said that he was quite passionate about the project. That is why he decided to invest even more money into the project. “I did not want someone from the outside taking on the project and possibly running out of money again.”

Construction has begun on the new building for the work groups of the city and parts of the administrative district (ARGE) next to the main post office. The base slab is to be put in next week. The concerns of the Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments have been cleared up in the meantime. Entrepreneur Hans Sachs is taking his commercial centre project next to the main train station to the next level. It is to be handed over on 15 April. Sachs invested a total of 8.5 million Euros into the building complex.

Will the working groups of the city and administrative district (ARGE), responsible for the disbursement of the new unemployment benefit “Arbeitslosengeld II”, be moving into the new building at the main train station next year? Yesterday in closed session the city council moved closer to approving the project of a private investor. Mayor Bernhard Deubig said later that evening that an absolute majority of the city council had embraced the ideas of the investor. Only few voted against, and there were many abstentions.

Since Wednesday, a small spruce with white and blue bands is suspended on one of the roofs of the Monte-Mare waterpark in the PRE-Park. Nailed to the edge of the arched roof above the swimming area, it symbolises that construction is progressing well.

Construction of the “Monte-Mare” waterpark in the PRE-Park began yesterday morning with a ground-breaking ceremony. The waterpark on the park’s high plateau will take approximately 15 months to be completed.

New life has been breathed into Villa Kröckel. A doctor has opened a 350 sqm practice on the upper floor. The ground floor and basement are still in the process of conversion and renovation. Owner Hans Sachs, who invested 3.2 million German Marks into the renovation of the villa (from around 1870), aims to reconcile functionality with historic preservation.

The multiplex cinema in Holtzendorff Park will be opening on 10 December. This date has been confirmed by the operator company United Cinemas International (UCI).

About 200 workers are still working around the clock on the huge construction site of the new multiplex cinema, doing everything they can to ensure that it will be ready in time for the grand opening on 10 December. The exterior of the prestigious building with its large glass surfaces and blue facade is nearly complete.

Kaiserslautern – the city of cinemas: This was the motto under which a battle was waged in the city this year. Three interested parties sought the contract for the development of a large multiplex cinema in the city.

A multiplex cinema is to be built on the grounds of the Holtzendorff barracks. Kaiserslautern entrepreneur and PRE shareholder Hans R. Sachs wants to build the cinema. It will be operated by Michael Wiedemann, the operator of the Central Cinema. The building application was submitted yesterday with the building authorities.

The name of the new investor for the Holtzendorff barracks: PRE Regional Development. The investor group, consisting of seven Kaiserslautern business people, won the city council’s vote of confidence by a wide margin yesterday evening. In a secret ballot, 35 council members voted to award PRE the contract for building a service and business park on the grounds of the former barracks.

Which investor will get the Holtzendorff barracks after Stuttgart real estate investor Bernd Schulze-Bergmann fell at the first hurdle? The city council is facing the difficult decision who to recommend as negotiating partner to the Federal Property Administration. A simple review of the application documentation is certainly not enough. The council will also need to trust its instincts on who is most likely to succeed with converting the former French military barracks into a service and business park.

The cinema will be opening in mid-November, if everything goes according to plan. Then the converted Central Cinema will open its doors once again, this time under the more sonorous name of Central Film Palace. This was announced by investor Hans Rainer Sachs. The building shell should be be ready by mid-September. Two months are planned for the interior. “All contracts have been awarded, we are right on schedule,” said Sachs.

The Kaiserslautern cinema scene is undergoing a major transformation. The Rex in Riesenstrasse will be closing down soon and the Central Cinema in Osterstrasse is to be converted into a modern film palace. The plans were announced yesterday by the incumbent operator of the two cinemas, Alfi Mayer, and Kaiserslautern entrepreneur and investor Hans Rainer Sachs.