Overview
- The 43-meter-long, two-meter-high lettering returned to the terminal roof on October 13 and is expected to glow in light blue by Thursday or Friday.
- Restorers used a non-invasive, conservation-led approach, retaining historic material and replacing only 12 of 213 custom neon tubes.
- Heckmann GmbH & Co. KG completed the work in a Hoppegarten workshop under Tempelhof Projekt GmbH oversight, with funding drawn from the city’s SIWA program.
- The reinstalled sign is a small milestone within a multi-year concrete and roof rehabilitation of concourses A1/A2 covering about 21,000 square meters, budgeted at roughly €32 million and targeting first-half completion by early 2027.
- Debate over the site’s future continues, with about 120,000 square meters currently rented to the police and a developer’s updated proposal for a sunken congress and events center on the forecourt under discussion.