There are many job opportunities, especially for academics, but the chance of finding housing is much smaller. Around 136,000 people commute to work in the city every day.
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Bonn Bonn is “a capital of the free world” – a sentence that was immortalized in the memory of the city’s residents in 1963. It was US President JF Kennedy who spoke it to a packed, enthusiastic audience of 45,000 in the market square. The traces left by the former beacon of hope are gray asphalt.
The “Kennedyallee” named after him also runs through Plittersdorf in the north of the district of Bad Godesberg. And right there, the formerly celebrated like a pop star now gets well-known company.
“Jackie K.” is the “transitional name” for the new residential and office quarter of the developers Gerchgroup and BPD. The area covers around 25,500 square meters for apartments (40 percent of which is subsidized). In addition, 13,500 square meters of office space, a daycare center, an underground car park and green roofs and facades will be created.
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