The ipartment Leverkusen @HOME by Best Western building is located in the heart of the new ‘railway town’ of Opladen. A new district with residential and commercial areas is being created in the new railway town. The central component is the establishment of the 11th Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. This is where the Leverkusen campus is being built. Opladen city center and the train station, with good connections to Cologne, are just a few minutes' walk away.
Leverkusen, home to the DAX-listed companies Bayer AG and Covestro AG, is also only a few minutes' drive away.
With a catchment area of approximately 17 million people, within a radius of approximately 100 kilometers, the city of Leverkusen is one of the hubs of Europe's most economically powerful region, the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. Located in the vicinity of the two top seven cities of Cologne and Dusseldorf, it has a highly developed infrastructure with the A1, A3, and A59 motorways, and the international airports of Cologne/Bonn and Dusseldorf. In the middle of the densely populated Rhine corridor, Leverkusen is excellently connected to all transport routes as a European hub.