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Berlin Business Location Center

Internet business portal

The Berlin Business Location Center (BLC) is an Internet business portal and consultation center serving companies that wish to invest or set up a business in Berlin. The BLC is an information service provided by Berlin's economic development agency. Since 2001, the BLC has been advising investors on how to locate their business in Berlin, while also assisting Berlin-based companies with their foreign-trade activities.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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The Berlin Business Location Center (BLC) is an Internet business portal and consultation center serving companies that wish to invest or set up a business in Berlin. The BLC is an information service provided by Berlin's economic development agency. Since 2001, the BLC has been advising investors on how to locate their business in Berlin, while also assisting Berlin-based companies with their foreign-trade activities.2

The story

The BLC was established in 2001 by then-Mayor Eberhard Diepgen and the Senator for Economic Affairs Wolfgang Branoner.

This had been preceded by a 1998 resolution of the Berlin Senate to overhaul the whole range of the city's economic development activities. The objective was to convert the previously heterogeneous organization of Berlin's business promotion into a centralized agency.

In this way, the BLC played a pioneering role in Europe as the first agency providing information to potential investors, not least because Berlin was the only city in Germany that has been mapped in a fully textured 3D format. The virtual presentation of Berlin as a site of business and industry in the 3D city model of Berlin, combined with industry-specific data about Berlin's economy gives potential investors all the information they need and a precise understanding of the location and surroundings of their future address in Berlin.

From Wikipedia’s article on Berlin Business Location Center, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

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