Stock Photo - PRODUCTION - 23 August 2023, Saxony, Leipzig: View of the approximately 25-hectare site of the former Eutritzscher Freiladebahnhof in the immediate vicinity of Leipzig's city center. A new quarter with around 2,400 planned residential units, over 100,000 square meters of commercial space and an attractive public park is planned for the wasteland. In addition, a school and sports campus with a community school, two daycare centers with a total of 330 places and cultural-social facilities are to be built. Moreover, as a ""sponge city,"" the area will hold all the rainwater in the neighborhood like a sponge and use it for climate-friendly irrigation and evaporation on site. (Aerial drone view) Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa. - Leipzig/Saxony/Germany