In Berlin, a Grass-Roots Fight Against Gentrification as Rents Soar

Re:In Berlin, a Grass-Roots Fight Against Gentrification as ... by smcl on Sunday March 19, 2017 @05:02AM (#13906043)

BTW for anyone curious for more info about the new Berlin airport fiasco Bloomberg did a nice writeup: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-23/how-berli...

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Re:In Berlin, a Grass-Roots Fight Against Gentrification as ... by ptaipale on Sunday March 19, 2017 @11:21AM (#13907598)

And this site reports the current status:

http://istderberschonfertig.de/

Latest updates are that the new manager mentioned in Bloomberg article, Karsten Mühlenfeld, has fired technical director Jörg Marks, and that right after that Mühlenfeld himself had to go due to deep disagreements with the governing board. He will be replaced by an SPD politician, Lütke Daldrup.

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Re:In Berlin, a Grass-Roots Fight Against Gentrification as ... by martinald on Sunday March 19, 2017 @12:15PM (#13907942)

Very cool site. I fly to Berlin a lot (mainly SXF) and it is such a pain this airport is still not open.

SXF is a horrendous airport. Not enough seating and i know of two plug sockets in the whole airport. Recent passenger growth combined with the appalling layout means it is horrendously congested.

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Re:In Berlin, a Grass-Roots Fight Against Gentrification as ... by ptaipale on Monday March 20, 2017 @04:22PM (#13917353)

The description applies very much to TXL as well.

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Re:In Berlin, a Grass-Roots Fight Against Gentrification as ... by maze-le on Sunday March 19, 2017 @05:33AM (#13906123)

Holger Klein has done some very good in-depth interviews with Martin Delius (part of the parlamentary inquiry) about this issue. Sorry it's only in german, but is definitly worth listening if you can overcome the language barrier.

[0]: http://www.wrint.de/die-ber-gespraeche/

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