Bonn is booming - this is visible everywhere in the city, but most clearly in the Bundesviertel, the former government district between Bonn and Bad Godesberg. The former center of German politics has undergone a transformation of the highest order.

Over the past 20 years, a new district has grown up four kilometers long and 1000 steps deep around Bonn's "Central Park", the Rheinaue: with international corporate headquarters, new companies, scientific institutions, ministries, the World Conference Center Bonn and the campus for the United Nations. In total, more than 90 new companies and institutions have established themselves here since 1991. With more than 45,000 jobs (before the move, there were around 20,600), almost a fifth of all jobs in Bonn are concentrated here.

The heart of the Federal District is the United Nations Square with the UN Campus and the Word Conference Center Bonn. There have been UN organizations in Bonn since 1996; there are currently 25. Since summer 2006, most of them have moved into the UN Campus, at Platz der Vereinten Nationen No. 1. Its main building is the former high-rise parliament building, the "Lange Eugen". The largest UN institution in Bonn, the Climate Change Secretariat, moved into the sustainably renovated high-rise building in 2013. And the UN Campus continues to grow: in spring 2022, an extension building, the "Climate Tower", was handed over to the United Nations, which offers space for 330 people and meets the highest energy efficiency requirements.

The world negotiates at the World Conference Center Bonn, at Platz der Vereinten Nationen No. 2: a spacious conference center for up to 7,000 people has been built around the former plenary hall of the German Bundestag, whose light architecture attracts conference guests from all over the world. A new main building has been constructed to make it primarily usable for the United Nations, and a high-class hotel has been built right next door. The extension was officially opened in June 2015 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Since then, a wide range of events have taken place there, from UN conferences to classical concerts.

In November 2017, the world once again looked to Bonn: the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change gathered on the Rhine for the 23rd Climate Change Conference (COP23). Around 22,000 participants from more than 190 countries made COP23 the largest international conference in Germany to date. The city of Bonn presented itself as a cosmopolitan, accommodating host and recommended itself for further international conferences.

• The Villa Hammerschmidt with its extensive park is the official residence of the Federal President in Bonn.
• The Federal Chancellery complex is the seat of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), while the Federal Chancellor has his or her Bonn office in Palais Schaumburg.
• The German development aid organizations, the German Development Institute and the Federal Network Agency have made the "Tulpenfeld" their home.
• At the foot of the UN Campus is the broadcasting center of Deutsche Welle, which broadcasts its programs in 30 languages from Bonn all over the world.
• Deutsche Post DHL Group has its corporate headquarters, the Post Tower, to the south of the Deutsche Welle broadcasting center. The 162.5 meter high building, designed by architect Helmut Jahn, has become a landmark for structural change in Bonn.
• Deutsche Telekom AG also has its corporate headquarters in Bonn. Opposite its headquarters building on Friedrich-Ebert-Allee, the company has erected spacious new office buildings and connected the two complexes with a glass pedestrian bridge.
• If you extend the radius a little further, you come to Bonn's Museum Mile with the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Art Museum of the City of Bonn, the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Koenig Zoological Research Museum.
• Right next to it, a center of German development policy has emerged: the Bonn headquarters of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit in the so-called "Meander Building", which has just been extended by another building.

A framework plan for the Bundesviertel adopted in 2020 describes the goals and guidelines for the further development of the Bundesviertel in a structural concept, a utilization concept, a high-rise concept and a mobility concept . To create additional living space, it includes a residential share of 65.4 percent for further structural development.

The concepts show scope for development, but also describe guiding specifications. A final implementation concept identifies key projects that will provide impetus and for which prompt implementation is recommended. The framework plan outlines how the Bundesviertel can be changed and densified in the future in terms of program, construction and space, how mobility can be further developed in a climate-friendly way and how the green and open spaces can be upgraded. In the future, the district as a whole will be more urban, more diversified and of higher quality.

The master plan is a long-term urban development concept. It does not itself create any new planning law, but is to be taken into account in future when drawing up and amending urban land-use plans. Naturally, there will be intensive public participation in these procedures.