Blocking the Egerlandstraße: shops suffer from the construction site
Created: 06/25/2022, 12:00 p.m
By: Susanne Weiss
Construction site after construction site: Egerlandstraße is being restored, a teardrop-shaped roundabout is being built to Fasanenweg and this week another road maintenance measure was added.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
Due to the construction site on Egerlandstraße, fewer customers come into the shops.
The junction with Fasanenweg has also been closed for two weeks.
Geretsried – A woman drives along the Fasanenweg in her red car.
At the turnoff to Egerlandstraße, it doesn't go any further.
Construction site, barrier, round prohibition sign.
The woman looks helpless for a moment and then turns around.
The confluence has been closed for two and a half weeks.
Word hasn't gotten around to everyone - not even that all shops can still be reached.
Much to the chagrin of the owners.
They have been struggling ever since demolition and new construction of the residential and commercial buildings owned by the building cooperative and savings bank, including underground parking, began.
Due to the blocked junction, another 25 to 30 percent of customers stayed away, says Ludwig Schmid from the bakery of the same name.
His neighbor Frederik Holthaus, who owns the Isar department store, even speaks of 30 to 35 percent compared to this point in the previous year.
Geretsried: Shops accessible despite construction site
Frederik Holthaus, Managing Director Isar department store © Sabine Hermsdorf
"Customers complain because they don't know how to reach us," says Elvine Engelhardt, who runs the Paracelsus pharmacy across the street.
It was particularly bad for her that she found out about the blocking from the newspaper.
"Neither the city nor the building cooperative have informed us," reports Engelhardt.
She would have liked to have planned the staff's vacation accordingly.
Frederik Holthaus praises the commissioned construction companies as "cooperative".
He is in daily contact with the site managers.
"They try, but a construction site is a construction site," says the head of the Isar department store.
It was particularly annoying for Schmid and him that other sections of Egerlandstraße in the area of the pedestrian crossings were surprisingly torn open on Monday.
This resulted in a slalom course for customers and employees.
"The delivery was difficult, but that has been clarified so far," said Schmid on Wednesday.
Business people hope that the redesigned Egerlandstraße will develop well
The construction workers there were finished the next day, says Thomas Loibl, spokesman for the city of Geretsried.
It was a municipal road maintenance measure.
"The cobblestones at the red road crossings have been loosening for some time," explains Loibl in an interview with our newspaper.
That would have had to be repaired at some point, but now the opportunity has been taken because the traffic frequency is low due to the blockage.
Rudi Utzinger, Managing Director Intersport Utzinger © Hans Lippert
It is important for the business people on the southern Egerlandstraße to emphasize: In the shops, visitors do not have to cut corners and they can be reached.
"Customers can drive to our parking lot," says Frederik Holthaus.
That's what it says on a joint banner from the Isar department store, Schmid Bäck' and Istanbul supermarket on one of the site fences.
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On the opposite side, Rudi Utzinger from the Intersport store of the same name is trying to make the best of the situation.
The latest SUP boards are on barriers.
The specialist retailer also presents its goods under a pavilion between the shop and the construction site.
He also activated online trading a little further, reports Utzinger.
"Of course, we feel a construction site of this dimension, but it will all pass." Utzinger still remembers the last renovation work on Egerlandstraße.
"The situation was similar there." But you got over that too.
"Intersport Utzinger has been here for 43 years."
Utzinger reports that he is often at Karl-Lederer-Platz to plan the Alpenland company run on July 20th.
"The flair there has changed radically for the better," says the managing director.
He assumes that the Egerlandstraße will develop in a similar way.
“People can park in the underground car park and stroll upstairs.
Wonderful."
Work on Egerlandstraße and Fasanenweg
At the junction of Egerlandstrasse and Fasanenweg, the city is having a drop-shaped roundabout built that will lead to the new underground car park.
During the work, the crossing area is expected to be closed up to and including Friday, August 5th (we reported).
During this time, passage is not possible from any side, not even temporarily.
"A temporary passage during the construction work in the crossing area was definitely checked, but is not possible from a traffic point of view," explains Ute Raach, manager in the town hall, when asked by our newspaper.
The junction area is part of a total of around ten construction phases in which the city is restoring the Egerlandstraße.
As is well known, it was torn up to create the public underground car park between the new residential and commercial buildings of the building cooperative and savings bank.
"All construction phases are always coordinated with the neighboring construction sites and are particularly closely interlinked with the work of the building cooperative," reports Managing Director Raach.
Almost all orders for the restoration of the Egerlandstraße have been awarded.
“Only the landscaping work is still open.
The tender is currently being prepared here together with the architect Kehrbaum.”
The design of the public space is based on that of Karl-Lederer-Platz.
The city is currently assuming that the restoration costs will be around 4.3 million euros.
The Egerlandstraße should be finished by the end of this year.
That is "but heavily dependent on the weather with regard to the application of the colored asphalt," says Raach.
After all, fortunately all materials could be delivered at the moment, "even if the delivery times have in some cases been significantly extended".
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