Business start-ups will soon have a home - topping-out ceremony for the start-up center

Created: 09/16/2022, 18:34

By: Stefanie Zipfer

The result after 167 days of construction is impressive: The topping-out ceremony was held yesterday at the Dachau start-up center on the Wettersteinring.

"Gründwerk" chairman Max Kaiser (3rd from left), Mayor Florian Hartmann (2nd from right) and deputy district administrator Martina Purkhardt held the speeches.

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The construction of the Dachau start-up center at the Wettersteinring is progressing in leaps and bounds.

After the start of construction at the beginning of May, the topping-out ceremony took place yesterday.

The planned opening date is April 1, 2023. The city and district are sponsoring the prestige project - which, however, is not that easy due to various EU regulations.

Dachau – Max Kaiser and his colleagues from the “Gründwerk” association are very proud of what they have built from scratch in terms of organization and construction over the past few months.

After only five months of construction, the topping-out ceremony for the Dachau start-up center took place yesterday.

According to Kaiser, the building “is already taking on really concrete forms.

I am pleased to be able to show you this today”!

“What a power behind it”

Among the visitors addressed were representatives from politics and business.

And everyone was impressed.

"What a power there is behind it," said Deputy District Administrator Martina Purkhardt.

She therefore hopes that the start-ups who will find their place there from next spring will be “accompanied by this power”!

Mayor Florian Hartmann explained that he was "convinced from the start" that the start-up center is "important for the city and the region" - "it doesn't all have to be in Munich".

Office and co-working space rental

In addition to private sponsors, the two Dachau banks as well as the city and district contribute to the financing of the start-up center.

In the long term, the income from renting the offices and the co-working space should also ensure the profitability of the center supported by the "Gründwerk" association.

While X-Werk GmbH has its place on the ground floor of the 1,650 square meter building as a normal, commercial tenant, the two upper floors with their total area of ​​700 square meters and subsidized rental prices are exclusively available to start-ups or users of the co-working space.

In the modern world of work, co-working spaces are shared or open-plan offices in which the self-employed can rent a workplace.

The aim of the center: young talents, creative people and young entrepreneurs from the city and district should have a central contact point at the Wettersteinring, be able to network and - above all - be able to work at affordable rents.

Not yet cost-covering

Since the start-up center cannot be operated to cover its costs, especially in the early years, the city and district have committed themselves to a five-year subsidy of 50,000 euros per year.

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However, the fact that it is not so easy for the public sector in this country to put their money in the hands of young, smart entrepreneurs has become a painful experience for the town hall and district administration over the past few months.

"Giant" is the effort that "is behind it, so that we as a municipality can support this project", according to Lord Mayor Hartmann.

Only with the help of a specialist lawyer for EU state aid law and a tax consultant was a model finally developed that ensures that EU competition law is not violated and that funding is still targeted.

Basically, according to the mayor, the start-up center construct of operator association and supporting municipality is exactly right: It is "always the best" if entrepreneurs like Kaiser & Co. take care of the operation and "we as a municipality support".

By the way: everything from the region is also available in our regular Dachau newsletter.