BERLIN, Germany -- The Berlin based Acrest Property Group continues to strengthen its team with the appointment of Lutz Schilbach (43), a qualified architect, who has joined the firm as Head of Technical Project Management and Construction Procurement, taking charge of the 11-strong department responsible for managing the planning and implementation of construction projects.
Lutz has joined Acrest from TAG Immobilien AG in Hamburg, where he performed strategic real estate management tasks and, as Managing Director of TAG Stuttgart-Südtor Projektentwicklungs GmbH & Co. KG, had joint responsibility for a new construction project worth over EUR 65 million.
Previously, in his capacity as Technical Manager and Head of Project Management at TAG Gewerbeimmobilien GmbH, he managed real estate with a value of EUR 400 million. Before his seven-year association with TAG, he worked as architect and officer manager at Schulz & Schulz Architekten GmbH in Leipzig.
Acrest's Technical Project Management and Construction Procurement department cover tenant coordination, technical inventories, tenders and contract awards as well as oversight and reporting functions vis-à-vis owners and banks.
About Acrest Property Group GmbH (www.acrest.de)
Acrest Property GmbH is an asset manager and developer of retail properties in Germany. The company was established in Berlin in 2006 and with its over 120 employees currently manages real estate assets worth EUR 3.7 billion and measuring a total of 2.5 million sq m (about 26,910,656 sq ft). The areas of investment, technical management, asset management, property management, centre management, consulting, and retail letting are integrated under one roof. ACREST pursues a holistic approach to managing retail properties as a one-stop shop for real estate investors. The approximately 400 properties currently managed by ACREST include, among others, around 90 Woolworth properties in Germany and Austria, 43 Metro Group locations, various specialist store centres, as well as a large number of retail properties in inner city locations. Examples of current project developments are the Opel Forum in Rüsselsheim measuring around 36,000 sq m (about 387,513 sq ft) and Staufen Galerie in Göppingen with around 30,000 sq m (about 322,927 sq ft) of leasable space.
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