Many open questions at the "Active Center"

Created: 12/23/2021 Updated: 12/23/2021, 4:37 PM

From: Bernhard Jepsen

The activity center next to the ice rink is to be an elongated building with a floor area of ​​650 square meters.

Seven changing rooms for the ice rink, as well as referee and coach rooms and a tea kitchen are planned on the ground floor.

The building is to be equipped with an elevator.

Among other things, an exercise and multi-purpose room is planned on the upper floor.

The total usable area is 828 square meters.

© graphic: planning office kreutterer

As part of a builders' association, the municipality and TSV Peißenberg want to build an activity center next to the ice rink (we reported). The draft planning has now been presented to the market council. Compared to the preliminary planning, there was a cost increase of 20 percent. But the now estimated three million euros are still not a valid figure.

Peißenberg

- To put it carefully: if it is actually built, the planned activity center, which is to be built on the former roller-skating rink on Pestalozzistraße, will certainly not be an architectural eye-catcher. The intention pursued by the two builders with the longitudinal construction of building class three is different - if only for financial reasons: The budgets of the TSV and the municipality are known to be very limited. The commissioned planner, Georg Kreutterer, gave a lecture on a "relatively simple functional building in solid construction" in the market council at the presentation of the draft planning. There was no euphoria in the market council regarding the planning. The project still raises questions. The following is an overview of the most important backgrounds and possible sticking points:

Why does the TSV actually need an activity center?

The term “active center” ultimately stands for a combination building.

On the one hand, rooms are to be created for general club use and, on the other hand, changing rooms for the ice rink.

The existing cabin wing has been ailing for a long time.

The flat roof structure is docked to the "Rigi-Rutsch'n" company building - not only structurally, but also in terms of supply.

The TSV - not the ice hockey division, but the main club, mind you - is only a tenant.

Owners are the municipal works.

How did the constellation come about?

Rather coincidentally. The changing rooms used to be clearly assigned to the ice rink. When the “Rigi-Rutsch'n” was transferred in the 1990s from the municipality to the then own company “Gemeindewerke”, the changing rooms were also included in the transmission mass.

Today's municipal company (KU) has been signaling for a long time that it wants to tear down the cabins and create space for an extension of the rehabilitation center located on the upper floor of the pool park, but not sustainable in its current size. The TSV had definitely given consideration to renovating the existing cabins and enlarging them in the direction of Pestalozzistraße. The bottom line is probably a more cost-effective solution than a completely new building. The idea was that the municipal utilities could have put an additional structure on top of the low-rise building for rehab. According to TSV President Stefan Rießenberger, there was also an on-site meeting with the KU. But the municipal works waved it off. "That's why we had to develop a plan B," said Rießenberger.The cabins for ice skating are now planned on the ground floor of the activity center. The TSV Presidium is under strong pressure to act. On the one hand, the ice hockey division is putting pressure on it, and on the other, income must be generated for the ice rink in order to be able to at least partially cover the deficit gap of the locally subsidized sports facility (around 100,000 euros annually).

The hobby teams, who book ice times with TSV as hall operators, flush money into the till.

But they only do that in the long term if the accompanying infrastructure is right, i.e. reasonable shower and changing facilities are available.

However: The main problem of the TSV, namely the question of how the ice arena can be organized and financially viable in the long term, would not change anything through the construction of the activity center.

It would only improve the infrastructural framework.

But what if the ice rink itself needs major renovation?

The TSV would be bare.

Why does the community need an active center?

Critical voices claim that the activity center is actually only being built to make it easier for the TSV to finance the construction of the new cabin. In the context of the market council, the new youth center is referred to as an example behind closed doors. The same was combined with the construction of a town house, because the Juze building alone would not have received any funding. Now it is difficult to find uses for the community center.

There are also no specific plans for the “actual” activity center, which is designed with a multi-purpose and exercise room on the upper floor, among other things.

According to Rießenberger, there is definitely a need.

The three gyms on site are fully occupied.

“We need the activity center from the hall times alone.” In the conversation, there was also a use by the “Frohsinn 2000” carnival association, which has several dance gardens at the start.

How is the construction of the active center financed?

The biggest sticking point for the “Aktivzentrum” project could be funding. As part of the design planning, a gross figure of 3.0 million euros is assumed. In the preliminary planning it was still 2.5 million euros. Kreutterer has incorporated the recent price increase (13 percent) and a forecast increase in costs (7 percent) into the new estimate. But the concrete cost calculation is still pending, it is usually higher than the calculation approach. If, contrary to expectations, it stayed at the three million, the community would account for a share of 1.2 million after the division of use (activity center / changing rooms). The town development subsidy promised a grant of 900,000 euros for the market. The municipality would have to pay the remaining 300,000 euros out of pocket. The TSV in turn would have to be the proud sum of 1,Carry 8 million euros.

“We can do it.

We can do it, ”assured Rießenberger in the market council.

You still need the approval of the general assembly, but the active center is very important for the association: "We need it for our young people and for popular sport as a whole."

How does the TSV finance its share?

Initially, the club expects a generous amount of funding from the Bavarian State Sports Association. The BLSV has not yet given its approval. Furthermore, the TSV would have to take out a loan, apparently there have already been promising talks with the house bank. And last but not least, the municipality would be ready again - namely with a grant of 200,000 euros already granted in 2020. A total of around 0.5 million euros would then flow from the municipal budget into the “Active Center” project - all based on the cost estimate of three million euros, mind you. From the point of view of the community, this is a decent chunk of money, especially since it is not a compulsory municipal task such as the expansion of the Josef-Zerhoch-Grundschule or flood protection.

There is no room for further extras. The suggestion by Christian Quecke (CSU / non-party) to equip the northern part of the Active Center's building with an upper floor (“This is otherwise wasted space”) was countered by Michael Liedl in the market council: “We are talking about voluntary services here. We have to finance it somehow, ”explained the treasurer. He doesn't want to have to redefine at some point. Liedl also addressed equal treatment with other clubs. Excessive financial commitment to the "Aktivzentrum" project could contradict this principle: "We have to keep that in mind."

Conclusion:

The market council has not yet decided on the construction of the active center.

A final decision should only be made when the statements of the funding agencies and a specific cost calculation are on the table.