Extensive reconstruction was started in 1964. The Bitterfelder Straße loop track was completed by 1968. From 1980, trams could no longer turn directly from the Apelstraße in the direction of the Berliner Straße, but only away from the town center ("landwärts"). This measure had become necessary because the LVB wished to expand the open-air storage yard by an additional 11 tracks. The modernized workshop was reopened on 8 November 1992. In the late 2000s, the depot was turned into a storage facility and finally closed in late 2015. In 2019, the depot was reopened as new location of the Leipzig tramway museum and is now the home of all historic tramway cars of the city.