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HIDDEN PLACES - ORCO Germany

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Chanel and other luxury businesses and its almost unbelievable<br />

size of 30,000 square meters - all this makes the Haus Cumber-<br />

land a really exciting and extremely important project for us.<br />

The Haus Cumberland will give Berlin a whole fresh momen-<br />

tum. That‘s what I find so wonderful about Berlin - it continually<br />

finds itself anew.<br />

What, in your opinion, is the difference between Berlin and<br />

other European cities?<br />

If you want to set something in motion in London or Paris, you<br />

have to belong to the right clubs and societies. In Berlin, you<br />

just don‘t have bogged-down structures like that. About a third<br />

of the population has changed since the wall came down and<br />

that‘s why Berlin is above all trademarked by a generous trans-<br />

parency. If you have ideas here, and you go to someone and<br />

speak frankly about them, you‘ll be met with frankness.<br />

Inmitten einer Karriere im Investmentbanking haben Sie sich für eine Tätigkeit als<br />

Immobilienentwickler entschieden, verraten Sie uns, warum?<br />

Ich hatte damals schon viele Jahre mit Aktien gearbeitet und habe irgendwann ein-<br />

fach gemerkt, dass es nicht das ist, was mich erfüllt. Andererseits hatte ich aber in<br />

jener Zeit die Möglichkeit, viel über die asiatischen Kapitalmärkte zu lernen, deren<br />

Anteile an Immobilienaktien sehr groß ist. Deshalb, und auch aus persönlichem In-<br />

teresse, lag dieser Bereich sehr nahe. Darüber hinaus ist die Immobilie einfach etwas<br />

Konkretes – man kann es anfassen. Es bleibt. Und man kann durch Immobilien das Le-<br />

ben von anderen Menschen aktiv mitgestalten und wird so Teil einer sozialen Struk-<br />

tur. Was einerseits schön ist, aber auch eine hohe Verantwortung impliziert.<br />

Wie tragen Sie dieser Verantwortung rechnung?<br />

Many original details from the time of the founder have been preserved in the<br />

Haus Cumberland on the Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin and today these help to<br />

shape the representative style of this property.<br />

Nun, zum einen natürlich in sozialen und ökologischen Fragestellungen. Andererseits<br />

Mr. Bormann, thank you for talking to us.<br />

Orco Property Group<br />

With assets under management of EUR 737 million (as at 31.12.2005), the Orco<br />

Property Group is a leading investor, developer and asset/fund manager on the real<br />

estate and hospitality markets in Central and Eastern Europe. The company is ba-<br />

sed in Luxembourg and listed on the Euronext and Prague Stock Exchanges. Since<br />

1991 Orco has been operating in Central Europe. The investment portfolio includes<br />

IPB Real, MaMaison Apartments & Hotels, Orco Real Estate and further commercial<br />

real estate.

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