Update 30 September 2020: Rene Benko's real estate and retail group Signa is sticking to its megaproject "KaDeWe Vienna" despite the corona-related crisis in the city hotel industry and consumer reticence, but the conversion of the current Leiner flagship on Vienna's Mariahilfer Strasse into a department shop à la "Kaufhaus des Westens" will take a year longer than originally planned. The opening is scheduled for autumn 2024, said Signa managing director Christoph Stadlhuber on Thursday.

16 October 2019: Berlin-based department store KaDeWe is set to launch a new outpost in the Museumsquartier section of Vienna. Designed by OMA architecture firm, the project will comprise two volumes: a retail space and a hotel. The store should gather 30 000sqm of selling space while the hotel will house 150 rooms. Public gardens will stretch across the rooftops with a diverse layout of spaces, from tree gardens to sundecks that frame unprecedented urban views. Construction work should start first semester 2021 and be completed by fall 2023.