IC opens THE FIZZ+ Freiburg

International Campus opens “THE FIZZ+ Freiburg” with 149 high-quality student apartments 

• All apart­ments of the first construc­tion phase sold
• More than 90 per cent of apart­ments already leased 

The student residence “THE FIZZ+ Freiburg” in the popular district Freiburg-Zähringen has been completed and is now open. More than 90 per cent of the 149 high-quality, fully-furnished one and two-room apart­ments have already been leased. While a few of the apart­ments constructed in the second phase are still available, all first-phase 116 apart­ments have been sold. For the manage­ment and letting of “THE FIZZ+ Freiburg“, which is constructed with the low-energy building standard “Freiburger Effizi­enz­haus 60”, Inter­na­tional Campus AG is respon­sible. 

Horst Lieder, CEO of Inter­na­tional Campus AG: “Just in time for the start of the winter semester 2014/15 and the tradi­tional welcome-day of the Univer­sity of Freiburg in the stadium of SC Freiburg the “THE FIZZ+” is ready. We are delighted that our premium student residence has been almost fully leased before the semester has even begun.” Around half of the apart­ments are occupied by inter­na­tional students, many of them on the European Erasmus + programme. “We wish all students a warm welcome as well as a successful start to their studies,” Lieder added. 

“THE FIZZ+ Freiburg” offers a high quality of living and studying thanks to spacious, fully-furnished apart­ments of between 27 and 30 square metres on average, most of them with their own terraces or balco­nies. Other highlights include seminar rooms, a laundry room, and a house coordi­nator, all of course in an excel­lent location. The student residence has around 100 spaces for bicycles and 29 parking spaces for cars as well as an inner garden area. The priva­tely financed student residence on the corner of Zähringer Straße and Tulla­straße repres­ents an invest­ment volume of 2 roughly €22 million for both construc­tion phases. The all-in rents, which include electri­city, heating, water, furnis­hings, high speed internet access and all ancil­lary charges, start at around €450 per month. 

Aribert Frece of Stuckert Wohnbau AG, that developed “THE FIZZ+ Freiburg” in a joint venture with GEWO GmbH, commented: “Due to the innova­tive concept and high-quality construc­tion of the student residence, we have struck a chord with inves­tors, while at the same time easing the tight market for student housing in Freiburg.” Frece added: “Now that “THE FIZZ+” is finished, it is easy to see that it fits in well with the rest of the Zähringen neigh­bour­hood. Thanks to the building’s well-designed struc­ture, the concierge service and the excel­lent insula­ting materials that have been used, the noise level won’t be any higher than when the Esso petrol station used to be there.” 

With over 215,000 inhabi­tants, the city of Freiburg im Breisgau is a renowned univer­sity town with a prospe­ring economy. Besides the Albert Ludwig Univer­sity of Freiburg, the city is home to other educa­tional and research estab­lish­ments, inclu­ding insti­tutes of the Max Planck Gesell­schaft and the Fraun­hofer Gesell­schaft. In winter semester 2013/14, more than 32,000 young people from Germany and abroad were studying in the city on the Dreisam river.