A few years back, Tempelhof closed as an airport. The city was left with no real plan beyond basic concepts about what to do with such a large swath of real estate suddenly available. Here's an article from 2008 that covered a bit of the story heading up to the closing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/arts/design/20tempelhof.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1353672644-sjgy6Sg2ab3ey554EWaTmQ
(As long as the link still works, there was an accompanying slide show with some good photos of the airport that is worthwhile.)
A competition for redevelopment plans went out - now that it has been a few years since all of that, there is a new plan for what will happen going forward. As I understand it, several of the perimeter areas will be dedicated to new housing and office parks, but the main building, the runways, and the central part of the airfield will be preserved for historical purposes and made into a recreation area.
Next week I will get another post or two put up on these new developments - they appear to give a good reason to get back and check out the old homestead by 2017, if not sooner.
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