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Since the early 2000s, there has been talk of the city buying back the hill. However, this is unlikely, as the area is encumbered with a mortgage of almost 50 million euros. In the summer of 2016, landlord Marvin Schütte opened the site to visitors, who can climb the towers of the listening station and admire the ever-evolving "Street Art Gallery" in the abandoned buildings. [16] The grounds and buildings show strong signs of vandalism. Access to the main dome is via a pitch-black staircase in the middle of the building. As of April 2017, there is a fee to enter at the main entrance and a sign informs visitors that it is open from 10 a.m. to "one hour before sunset". [17]
After announcing plans to demolish the site and reforest the hill, there was renewed talk in 2009 about preserving the site, led by the Field Station Berlin Veterans Group, which hopes the memorial will be named in honor of Major Arthur Nicholson, the last military victim of the Cold War, the officer of the U.S. Military Liaison Mission, who was shot dead by a Soviet guard near Ludwigslust on March 24, 1985.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Station_Berlin