Emporis GmbH was a
real estate
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more genera ...
data mining company that was headquartered in
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
, Germany. The company collected data and photographs of buildings worldwide, which were published in an online database from 2000 to September 2022.
On 12 September 2022, the managing director of
CoStar
CoStar Group, Inc. is a Washington, DC-based provider of information, analytics and marketing services to the commercial property industry in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Spain. Founded in 1987 by Andrew C. ...
Europe posted a letter on Emporis.com, informing its community members of the decision which had been made to retire the Emporis community platform, effective 13 September 2022.
Emporis offered a variety of information on its public database, Emporis.com.
Emporis was frequently cited by various media sources as an authority on building data.
Emporis originally focused exclusively on
high-rise buildings and
skyscrapers, which it defined as buildings "between 35 and 100 metres" tall and "at least 100 metres tall", respectively. Emporis used the point where the building touches the ground to determine height. The database had expanded to include low-rise buildings and other structures. It used a point system to rank skylines.
History
Michael Wutzke started a website about skyscrapers in Frankfurt in 1996. In 2000 he started skyscrapers.com, which was folded into Emporis in 2003.
In 2004, Stephan R. Boehm assumed the role of chairman. Wutzke was Chief Technology Officer and managing director until 2010, when he left the company. Since then, Daniel Grözinger and Sven Schmidt are managing directors at Emporis
In 2005 Emporis formed a partnership with the
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), under which Emporis served as the official CTBUH high-rise buildings database until the launch of The Skyscraper Center in 2011.
In 2007 venture capital firm
Neuhaus Partners
Neuhaus (German for "new house") may refer to:
Places
*in Germany:
**in Bavaria:
***Neuhaus an der Pegnitz, in the district Nürnberger Land
***Neuhaus am Inn, in the district of Passau
**in Lower Saxony:
***Amt Neuhaus, in the district of L� ...
and
KfW Bankengruppe
The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment and development bank, based in Frankfurt. As of 2014, it is the world's largest nationa ...
invested several million euro in the company. Effective 1 January 2009, the company moved its headquarters from
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse ...
to Frankfurt. In 2011, the company moved from Frankfurt to Hamburg.
On 26 October 2020,
CoStar Group, Inc., based in
Washington, D.C., completed its acquisition of Emporis GmbH.
CoStar Group added Emporis to its portfolio of brands.
The other brands included
LoopNet
LoopNet is an online marketplace for commercial property, primarily providing commercial property listings for sale and for lease in the United States and is currently owned by commercial property data company CoStar Group.
History
LoopNet wa ...
, Apartments.com, Apartment Finder, Belbex, amongst several others.
The merger of Emporis GmbH into CoStar Group subsidiary
STR, Inc's German division, STR Germany GmbH, was finalized on 27 January 2021, with Emporis GmbH's removal from the Common Register Portal of the German Federal States (german: gemeinsame Registerportal der Länder)
On 14 September 2022, the entirety of the Emporis website's original content, including the building database, articles and data regarding
Emporis Skyscraper Award recipients, and corporate information, was removed.
Emporis Skyscraper Award
In 2000 a group of Emporis senior editors began presenting the
Emporis Skyscraper Award. Eligible buildings are selected from a list of all buildings in the world at least 100 meters tall which were completed that year.
See also
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SkyscraperCity
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SkyscraperPage
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Structurae
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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
References
External links
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Companies based in Hamburg
Architecture websites
German real estate websites
Defunct websites
Internet properties disestablished in 2022
Internet properties established in 2000
Internet properties established in 1996