Padovicz-Gruppe, the landlord widely blamed for pricing Watergate and Wilde Renate out of Berlin, has told broadcaster RBB that an unnamed "internationally successful" club operator is taking over Watergate's old riverside room at the Oberbaumbrücke.
Germany's federal cabinet has approved a planning-law change that would reclassify nightclubs as cultural institutions instead of grouping them with casinos and brothels, giving venues stronger protection against developers, rent hikes and noise complaints. It still needs the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
Weeks before its scheduled 2025 closure, Wilde Renate secured a surprise 10-year lease on 15 December 2025, with the breakthrough credited to Berlin's economic-affairs senator, Franziska Giffey, not the culture department.
Berlin opened a 721 million euro stretch of the A100 in August 2025, and the planned next phase through Ostkreuz would put roughly 21 cultural venues, including ://about blank, Club OST and Salon Zur Wilden Renate, directly in the path of a state-built motorway.
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