Investments

Project Bird Nest is a residential building of around 4,000m² located in a highly sought-after district of Paris, close to several private schools and green spaces. The strategy for this asset is to undertake major renovation work to improve its energy performance and transform it into a luxury residence that meets today's highest standards.

Founded in Paris in 2012, Costockage is an online marketplace enabling professionals and individuals to rent storage units from operators and/or unused storage spaces from individuals. In 2017, Costockage launched Kostok, its self-storage center operating arm which develops and operates storage spaces with an innovative digital approach.

The property is located on Amerigo Vespucci 2 street in the heart of Milan’s Porta Nuova district. The building consists of approximately 12,300 sqm of floor space across for a total of 11 floors - of which nine are above ground. The property is mainly vacant and will benefit from a major investment and redevelopment plan. The refurbished building will be aligned with the highest ESG level and targets the most important international green certifications. As part of the redevelopment, it will also become a Net Zero Energy Building.

53,000sqm Pointe des Arts de l'Île Seguin project, located on the Seine in Boulogne-Billancourt, in close vicinity to Paris is one of Ardian’s largest property investments to date.
The project is being co-developed with Emerige, a developer committed to urban transformation, and AOG, a private investment company. The large-scale development will create a fully integrated, mixed-use environment in the heart of the Vallée de la Culture and the ZAC Ile Seguin Rives de Seine developed by SPI Val de Seine Aménagement – a tertiary, leisure, tourist, and cultural zone, located close to the headquarters of major companies as well as to several public transports.
Seguin is a mixed project designed as an ecosystem generating synergies with its environment consisting of 3 buildings:

A 22,000sqm mixed-use building with a cultural focus designed by Catalan firm RCR Arquitectes (Pritzker Prize 2017) and French agency CALQ Architecture

A 4-star hotel designed by the Austrian agency Baumschlager Eberle Architekten with about 230 rooms offering premium amenities in a prime environment for business and leisure customers

An office building also designed by RCR and CALQ offering 16,000sqm of prime office space

Ritterhof is an office and administration building, located at Ritterstrasse 11 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Built during 1905 and 1906, the office complex is characterized by its historic industrial architecture, with reddish-black bricks and the white brick façade of its courtyards. The architectural monument is one of the few surviving historical buildings in Berlin’s former “export quarter”, or “Rollkutscherviertel” - named after the high-volume of horse drawn carriages once used to transport goods. The property consists of three courtyards, eight staircases and three covered passageways, with around 13,000 square meters of space available to rent. Ardian Real Estate will extensively refurbish the asset to offer contemporary office spaces tailored to tenants needs and aims significantly increase the energetic performance of the property.

Project Tower is the second investment by Ardian Real Estate Europe Fund II in Spain. Built in 1993, the c.13,200sqm office building is located in Mendez Alvaro, a thriving and consolidated mixed office, residential and commercial area near Atocha train station and the M-30 inner ring road. The asset will be fully vacated by December 31st, 2022.

The building has fifteen floors (ground floor and fourteen upper floors) and has c.225 underground parking spaces across four underground floors.

Ardian Real Estate intends to carry out a full refurbishment of the building to transform it into a net zero carbon building.