Home builders get their money’s worth
More than 16 years ago, wolfgang heyder and steffen marx sat down together to look for ideas on how to open up the brose arena, which at the time was already well occupied with sports and cultural events, for further public events. "We came", so steffen marx now in the conversation with our newspaper "on the idea to develop a fair, which should serve the domestic economic demand" wrote jaki there. Years later, the franken real estate fair in bamberg has long since outgrown its infancy and has become the leading theme show in southern germany.
For the sixteenth time the real estate fair franken took place last saturday and sunday. This time with the special theme "sustainable construction and renovation, climate, energy and security". The organizers hit the nerve of the audience and the fair was able to set some records in the sixteenth edition again. The demand from exhibitors is continuing, said managing director marx happily when he opened the fair on saturday afternoon in the presence of third mayor wolfgang metzner (SPD), district administrator johann kalb (CSU) and numerous city councillors as well as many mayors and municipal councillors from the district communities.
Marx said that with 200 exhibitors at 160 stands, the event had reached new dimensions. In concrete terms, work has begun on the reserve exhibition space on the upper floor of the arena and, of course, a new record number of visitors will be welcomed. Mayor metzner, who represented the fair patron andreas starke (SPD), who was prevented from attending, and district administrator kalb thanked marx and heyder, as well as the exhibitors, for their commitment to the fair and to the local economy.
Finally, metzner explained that bamberg is continuing to develop into a boomtown and that the city’s real estate management is facing up to the associated challenges. He referred to the new construction area "megalith" in the district of gaustadt, the decision on a development plan in the district of wildensorg and the development of the former lagarde barracks and the former officers’ quarters on podeldorfer strabe.
The county councilor emphasized the wide range of information opportunities offered by the fair. On the one hand there are the competent exhibitors and on the other hand there are more than forty lectures in the betongold-forum and the oddset-business-lounge during the two days of the fair.
And indeed, at this fair, all visitors were excellently catered for. Whether house builders, house renovators and refurbishers, tenants, owners, minimalists or experimenters, manufacturers, service providers or suppliers – they all got their money’s worth.
