Verband Region Stuttgart

Verband Region Stuttgart
Kronenstraße 25
STUTTGART, D-70174

Image of Stuttgart by Sebastian Dahler via Flickr

Primary METREX contacts

Thomas Kiwitt
Chief Technical Director
Frieder Oesterle
Coordinator of European Affairs

Major projects

  • Stuttgart 21 station redevelopment and railway network upgrading, related S-Bahn improvements

  • Extensions and upgrading of suburban railway network, including accessibility

  • Regional Transportation Plan

  • European and international marketing, projects, networking and lobbying, economic clusters and competence centres

  • International Building Exhibition “StadtRegion Stuttgart” 2027: creative 10-year process as a preventive structural change

  • “Remstal Gartenschau” 2019: first inter-municipal horticultural show of its kind

  • Implementation of Landscape Park Concepts

Planning issues

  • Transit oriented development

  • Comprehensive regional planning

  • Retailing, vitalization of the inner city

  • Open space protection and development

  • Demographic changes

  • Industrial real estates

  • Influx of the population into the region

  • Affordable housing

  • Structural transformation

  • Climate change adaptation

  • Renewable energies

  • Sustainability

  • Competitiveness

  • Innovation

  • Mobility

  • Support for municipalities