When “Madness” takes to the stage at this year’s Stadtpark Open Air, both the iconic British band and their fans are taking a gamble on Hamburg’s notoriously unpredictable weather. For the many pop music fans in Germany’s second-largest city, it’s also a race to buy tickets: There are just under 4,000 seats, and by mid-June, most of them had already been sold.
Fans of the Bundesliga basketball team Veolia Towers Hamburg are accustomed to the frustration of tickets selling out quickly for home games. For particularly popular games, the club moves from its home venue, the Inselpark Arena (with about 3,500 seats), to the larger Barclays Arena (13,000 seats).
The need for a modern, medium-sized, multifunctional arena seating 8,000 – 10,000 will soon be better met, however, as Hamburg is creating an opportunity for private developers and operators to benefit from the further development of the city’s first-class cultural and sports scene.
In the centrally located Neuer Huckepackbahnhof district, the municipal Billebogen Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (BBEG) has put a suitable plot of land up for development...» Read more | 
