Overview

• All 690 employees of Galeria’s service center will relocate to the 1974-built RWI 4 building in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk on September 1.
• The Essen headquarters was designed by Walter Brune between 1967 and 1969 and placed under heritage protection in 2017.
• Portions of the Essen complex have been rented in recent years by the North Rhine-Westphalia state police.
• The property, formerly owned by René Benko’s insolvent Signa Group, was handed over as part of Galeria’s insolvency exit plan.
• The bus stop named “Karstadt Hauptverwaltung” will retain its name and is not scheduled for renaming.