Leipzig presents itself at MIPIM 2025

Leipzig, 4 March 2025 - Invest Region Leipzig (IRL) will once again be represented together with the City of Leipzig at the world's leading real estate trade fair MIPIM in Cannes in 2025. From 10 to 14 March 2025, the Leipzig region will be showcasing its potential as an innovative business location with outstanding investment opportunities. The focus will be on key projects that offer both urban and regional opportunities for companies and investors.

Presentation of key projects in the city of Leipzig

‘More locations compete for fewer investors. Competition between business locations is becoming tougher in the current situation. And it is not only being fought within Germany. That's why we are broadening our horizons and looking for investors in Europe and beyond. And we have outstanding products to offer, such as the premium site in the immediate vicinity of Leipzig/Halle Airport and Porsche Leipzig. At 100 hectares, it is one of the largest contiguous industrial estates in Saxony or even Germany. Investors will find an area with excellent connections and potential for large-scale industrial development here,’ explains Clemens Schülke, Mayor for Economic Affairs of the City of Leipzig.

MIPIM 2025 is a showcase for some of the most exciting investment projects in Leipzig and the region. In addition to the Airport Industrial Park, the industrial area at the airport, the BioCity Campus will be presented, a central development project in the heart of the city that offers 100,000 m² of modern office & laboratory space. The area is already established as a centre for companies in the biotechnology and biomedicine sector.

Another highlight is the TechPark Leipzig in the north-east of the city. An innovation park is to be built here on an area of approx. 13 hectares, which will appeal in particular to institutes and companies from the fields of energy and environmental technology and chemistry.

Regional highlights of the Leipzig district: sustainability and innovation

There are also exciting projects in the district of Leipzig that will be presented at MIPIM. Particularly noteworthy is the Zwenkau Green Business Park, which focuses on companies from the fields of renewable energies and innovation technologies, such as hydrogen, and sends a strong ecological signal. A new development in the region is the planned expansion of the Borna business park, which will appeal to companies from various sectors with a focus on production and position itself as a sustainable business location.

‘Our region not only offers excellent transport connections and highly qualified skilled labour, but also a large number of innovative and sustainable projects that have the potential to attract investors from all over the world,’ says Michael Körner, Managing Director of Invest Region Leipzig.

Leipzig among the top 5 of fDi's Mid-Sized European Cities of the Future 2025

Leipzig was selected by fDi Intelligence magazine as one of the top 5 of fDi's Mid-Sized European Cities of the Future 2025 in the FDI Strategy category. This award emphasises the future-oriented focus of the city and district of Leipzig. The European Cities & Regions of the Future 2025 ranking, which assesses European cities according to their economic, financial and entrepreneurial strengths, will be published in February 2025. The award ceremony will take place during MIPIM.

MIPIM - International platform for investors and developers

MIPIM is the most important trade fair for international property investors and one of the most important meeting places for the property industry worldwide. Invest Region Leipzig and the City of Leipzig will be presenting their projects to an international audience and forging new partnerships at the joint stand ‘German Cities & Regions Pavilion’ (Stand R8.D24) together with the City and Region of Hanover and the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region.

Leipzig region: an important business location

The Leipzig region has developed into one of the most important business locations in Germany in recent years. Conveniently located commercial areas, a high quality of life and unprecedented population growth speak in favour of the location. With a current population of over 630,000  inhabitants, Leipzig is the seventh largest German city, forecast for 2040: 700,000, making it Germany's 6th largest city. Leipzig attracts young people like almost no other location - the average age of its inhabitants is 42.1 years, well below the national average of 44.6 years.