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We develop real estate for peopleand companies.

Innovatively, successfully and sustainably.

Creating sustainable value

Urban Innovation’s goal is to work with users, capital partners and institutional investors to create sustainable economic value.

Our breadth of experience stems from large-volume project developments meeting the highest quality and sustainability standards since 2005.

Responsibilities

by Henning Dumrese

> 360 M €
project turnover since 2005
> 140,000 m²
project developments since 2005

Stepping up to the challengeof shaping our cities

With our project developments, we want to contribute to making urban spaces – as spaces for people to communicate and interact – more livable, healthier and safer.

This also means laying the foundations for the intelligent mobility of the future. And anticipating the effects of climate change now, to meet this challenge head-on with innovative measures.

Henning Dumrese, CEO of Urban Innovation

Working together in a spirit of partnership with users and investors, the public sector, neighbors and the general public.

Henning Dumrese is CEO, has been active in the real estate industry for more than 20 years, and has successfully managed project development companies with significant project volumes as Managing Director.

He was previously an associate partner at Lang & Cie. Rhein-Ruhr Real Estate AG. For his office development in Düsseldorf, compliance with the EU Taxonomy Regulation was already certified in 2021.

From 2012 to 2019, he was Managing Director Projects at Development Partner AG, where he initiated, designed, managed and marketed numerous project developments to well-known companies or entities such as Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Reserved LLP, the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA) or the City of Cologne.

Winning new talents

We support our customers in creating contemporary working environments that motivate people and stimulate them to fulfill their potential together.

Raising values

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Urban Innovation supports companies that want to better leverage their market standing.

Office space can be rented – or it offers the opportunity of a (partial) investment in a client’s own, innovative property, which is tailored to its own, future requirements.

The advantages for your company are best established in a personal conversation.

Focus on asset classes

  • office
  • retail
  • commercial housing
Graphic showing the sustainability goals of Urban Innovation
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ESG – Environmental, Socialand Corporate Governance

In terms of impact, ESG is one of the most significant issues in the real estate industry. Our projects anticipate the effects of climate change and use innovative measures to meet that challenge head-on.

Urban Innovation offsets carbon emissions

Since its inception, Dumrese. Real Estate has been committed to measuring and reducing its carbon footprint. Together with Climate Partner, Munich, climate protection projects are supported worldwide.

Climate contribution by Urban Innovation

Helenenwallstraße Cologne

Helenenwallstraße Cologne — visualisation of the neighbourhood square with building, trees and tram

Rethinking Cologne. A new, diverse place in Deutz.

A sustainable landmark with roughly 750 to 1,000 workplaces by the Rhine. Planning, expert reports and the state of the procedure are documented on the project website.

helenenwallstrasse.koeln

Partner Asset Management

SONAR Real Estate

Partner Project Management

NOVIA

Memberships

Urban Innovation is a member of initiatives such as the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) or the Urban Land Institute (ULI), which provide a network for the real estate industry to achieve a sustainable future.

IMMOEBSChamber of Architects North Rhine-WestphaliaUrban Land InstituteMember of the DGNBExpobikegif — German Society of Property Researchers
Thomas Daily

Thomas Daily Market Expert

Contact

Urban Innovation

Dumrese. Real Estate GmbH

Visitor: Gereonshof 12, 50670 Cologne, Germany

+49 221 169 369 79

info@ui-dre.com

Career

You would like to be part of a corporate culture based on integrity, professionalism and responsibility? Then we look forward to receiving your speculative application:

career@ui-dre.com