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Downtown revitalization: Funding for five cities and municipalities in the Weilheim-Schongau district

2021-07-12T06:22:01.796Z


With the special fund "Revitalize inner cities", the Free State is helping municipalities in the Corona crisis. Among the successful applicants are five cities and municipalities from the Weilheim-Schongau district.


With the special fund "Revitalize inner cities", the Free State is helping municipalities in the Corona crisis.

Among the successful applicants are five cities and municipalities from the Weilheim-Schongau district.

District

- When building minister Kerstin Schreyer published a press release on Friday lunchtime about which municipalities had successfully applied for funding from the “Inner City Revitalize” fund, those affected did not yet know about their happiness. As fresh as the news was, the joy of the financial blessing from Munich was just as great. "We are of course very happy about it," said

Schongau

Mayor Falk Sluyterman.

With 624,000 euros, his town in the district received by far the largest part of the funding pot, ahead of

Weilheim

(240,000 euros),

Penzberg

(

224,000

euros),

Peiting

(96,000 euros) and

Hohenpeißenberg

(56,000 euros).

The special fund that the Free State has set up for Bavarian municipalities and cities to counteract the consequences of the pandemic in city centers and town centers comprises a total of 100 million euros.

The run on the funding program was great, and 279 municipalities ultimately got a chance.

Great joy in Schongau and Weilheim

The municipalities had until June 10th to apply and had to indicate which projects and measures they wanted to implement to strengthen their town center. In Schongau, the city council decided on four modules. This included, among other things, the renovation of the Sonnengraben and the winter revitalization of Marienplatz. The total amount of the proposed measures was 785,000 euros. With a funding rate of 80 percent, "it looks as if we can implement all four building blocks," said city architect Sebastian Dietrich, pleased with the amount of funds committed on Friday afternoon. "Of course that's great."

Jutta Liebmann, head of the Office for Economic Promotion, Culture and Tourism in Weilheim, responded enthusiastically to the customer from Munich.

With 240,000 euros a lot can be achieved, she said happily.

Because the funding decision with the exact details was not yet available, Liebmann was not yet able to provide any information about which of the ideas presented to the city council would receive financial support.

One had applied with a project fund, among other things, the activation of fallow land such as the “Drei-Mohren-Stadel” or the renting of vacant rooms for temporary use were on the list of measures submitted.

These projects are to be tackled in Penzberg

Another 224,000 euros are to flow from the special fund to Penzberg. "We are pleased that we are taken into account," said Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU). According to him, the city of Penzberg had put together and submitted a package which, for example, covered the activation of vacant buildings in the city center, vacancy management, digitalization and even new, modern Christmas lights. Some of them were apparently recognized as eligible. Korpan was unable to say on Friday which projects these are, as the official notification of funding has not yet arrived at the town hall. The Penzberg “Pro Innenstadt” chairwoman Monika Uhl is also happy. “That's great, it's nice that money is flowing to Penzberg,” she said.“Pro Innenstadt” had initiated the special fund with other retailer associations - it was part of their petition to the state government. The inner cities of the various municipalities, she announced, would “continue to work together and push things forward”.

Peiting was also pleased to note that the application for the special fund had been successful. Even if the windfall of 96,000 euros was much lower than in neighboring Lechstadt, for example. However, at 256,000 euros, the total amount of the measures submitted was also significantly lower than in Schongau. Mayor Peter Ostenrieder found the fact that around half of them were approved as "a great story". Now we have to wait and see which projects will be funded. Among other things, the municipality had applied with the revision of the urban development concept and the construction of an inclusive playground on the main square.

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