PRESS REVIEW
„It gets harder and harder to find large sites to locate businesses with a need for vast land requirements“, says Martin Tönnes, division planning manager for the RVR. „gate.ruhr, or rather AV 3/7, is virtually predestined to be developed as a regionally significant business location."
Marl Erleben 04/17, „Regionally outstanding"
„The ‚gate to the future‘ opens up in glorious sunshine: The temperatures are well into the 20s when approximately 60 visitors are walking past the gatekeeper’s house of the former coal mine Auguste Victoria 3/7. The RAG Montan Immobilien and Marl’s city council invited the public to explore site which is not usually accessible to everybody, to inform people about the plans for the 90-hectare area.
Marl Erleben 03/17, "gate.ruhr: With giant steps into the future"
„Engines, gear boxes, ventilators, conveyor belts: hundreds of metres under the earth’s surface the pitmen did a spectacular engineering job in the Auguste Victoria 3/7 coal mine. In a future not too far away it can be a similarly impressive place again, but above ground. There are plans to level the former power station area and the stuck pile behind it at the same height.“
Marl Erleben 02/17, „XXL-reboot after the last shift"
„Until 2020, only five years after the end of the stone coal mining, the city of Marl and the RAG Montan Immobilien GmbH want to breathe new life into the attractive site - and create up to 1,000 new jobs there. gate.ruhr is considered to be the gate to the Ruhr valley and the future..“
Marl Erleben 01/16, „gate.ruhr: The gate to the future"
As part of the guided tour across the site, the visitors get an impression of the dimensions of the site and the buildings, which are still partly in use by the mining industry. […] 100 employees are still working there, responsible for the drainage underground as well as the dismantling and selling of machinery.
WAZ – UNSER VEST, "GATE.RUHR – THE GATE TO THE FUTURE", MAY 19, 2017
The city of Marl cooperates with the RAG Immobilien GmbH to open the ‚gate to the future’ in 2020. 1,000 jobs are the set target.
MARLER ZEITUNG, „MACHINERY IN A SLEEPING BEAUTY STATE", MAY 19, 2017
While the coal was still being produced in the facility AV 3/7, the Marl city council, the RAG Immobilien GmbH and Evonik began gathering ideas together with other regional partners for after use plans for the AV 3/7 site.
MARLER ZEITUNG, „EXPLORE THE GATE TO THE FUTURE", MAY 6, 2017
With the new Victoria we are aiming to create the fastest revitalised site of the Ruhr Valley, which will be made available to new businesses then.
WAZ – UNSER VEST , "GARRELT DUIN WANTS TO SET NEW RECORDS ON FORMER AV SITE", SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
The gate to the Ruhr valley is being developed in Marl.
MARLER ZEITUNG, „NEW VICTORIA WANTS TO ACCESS THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET", APRIL 27, 2016
What follows coal? The future!
BILD ZEITUNG, „THIS HAPPENS AFTER THE COAL", APRIL 27, 2016
This is a superb site. It is connected to road, rail and canal, and offers plenty of space for large businesses.
BILD ZEITUNG, „1,000 NEW JOBS TO BE CREATED AT AUGUSTE VICTORIA", SEPTEMBER 4, 2015