Hi all, I would like to introduce you (for those who are not yet informed) of the new project I would like to start. Let's just begin with background and motivation. As you all know, I moved to Berlin on purpose, especially for the quality of life. This means that life is globally affordable for the majority. Sadly, time are changing, and the city center is becoming more and more expensive and of course this phenomena is propagating further. As a consequence, many alternative places are closing one after the other, not being always able to move to another location. This is due to the fact that most of them just rented the place for a small amount of money, and at the expiration of their contract, the market was ready for more juicy business. (Like Tresor which moved from Postdamer platz to Köpenicker strasse). The places themself are also evolving to transform into more and more commercial environments. As a result, I would like to go in the other direction and open a new alternative place in Berlin big enough to host several projects inside. Namely, the current location has a size of 6000 m² including more than 3000 m² of covered space. It is composed of a main building (tyrollian style) representing 1500 m², then 2 big halls of 750 m² each, then an inner court with some wood protection, and a set of smaller buildings (currently in bad shape but with a big potential). I already visited the place with Masha and you could check the photos at the following address: https://picasaweb.google.com/103355319415668502110/PhotosLocauxNeukoln?authkey=Gv1sRgCOTGr5PD0PaGxwE&feat=directlink. In complement, attached is an expose of the object delivered by the agency. Below is a list of things I would like to do in this place: - pulse-AR office (android development) - co-working space (like Beta-Haus: www.betahaus.de ) - several living projects (might be inspired from www.microhouse.at ) - simple bar/catering (mainly to be used for co-workers) - specialized bars (including a sand-bar with a pool!) - specialized restaurants (from different country) - a BIG club - dance school - barman school - martial art school (Aikido, Judo, Karate, ...) - cinema (in hall or open air) - micro-agriculture / perma-agriculture - a satellite of c-base (check for this: www.c-base.org) - a bike shop and repair facility - different artist projects (through contests and for a fixed period of time) - a studio to record music - your own? All of them won't be of course launched at the beginning, but will be added years after years. Needless to say, that I would like the place to be automated at maximum, and therefore used as a demonstration platform for different technologies. (I am trying to get into contact with google in that direction since they are late in Europe compared to the effort of M$ to get in the place) Now, let's come to the point. I am writing you to ask you if you are interested by the following proposals: - invest directly in the project (in terms of money) - set up your own project to be located in the place - bring your skill and work in the place - propose your own ideas - your proposal ? The all place will cost around 2.3M€ (including agency fees), but I will of course enter in negociation after the first feedbacks of bank. The other idea is to introduce a new business model where people will pay in fonction of their revenue for all the services provided in the place. For the people interested, I could develop further the mechanisms and ideas behind this. Of course, the goal is not to me money or profit, but to invest internally the benefit done. (if any ! :)). As a conclusion, the people interested by this project are invited to reply to me as fast as possible and to give me its background and foreseen investment/activities in the place. Also, the people interested by the visit of this friday could also inform me. Very best regards, Pascal