The city of Frankfurt and the NGG trade union are committed to preserving jobs at Binding.
Two city councilors want the area to remain a commercial area.
Frankfurt – The Food, Enjoyment and Restaurants Union (NGG) still sees opportunities to prevent the closure of the Binding brewery announced by the Radeberger Group, which would affect around 150 employees.
The resistance is slowly starting, said the Frankfurt NGG boss Hendrik Hallier on Tuesday.
He not only considers the planned closure of the Sachsenhausen site to be irresponsible.
This is also not economically necessary, he said.
It is important, however, that city politicians make it clear to the company that the site on Darmstädter Landstrasse will remain a permanent commercial location, i.e. that it must not be converted into a residential area, as was the case with the neighboring former site of the Henninger brewery.
Because then selling the site would be less attractive than continuing to operate the brewery, reports fr.de.
Frankfurt's head of economic affairs Wüst: Binding area should remain an industrial area
The Frankfurt economic department head Stephanie Wüst (FDP) assured on Tuesday when asked that she agreed with the planning department head Mike Josef (SPD) that the Binding area should remain an industrial area in the future.
She has already commissioned the city's economic development agency to develop proposals for using the brewery.
In talks with Radeberger, the focus will be on preserving jobs, said the city councilor.
She declined to comment further on Tuesday.
The parliamentary group leader of the left in the Römer, Michael Müller, assumes that the "gambling for the valuable areas" on the Sachsenhäuser Berg has already begun.
"Here, the magistrate must intervene to regulate and accompany the development of the area," he demanded.
The end of the brewery, which Radeberger wants to close in a year at the latest, would be another blow to the site.
Once again, the magistrate was "caught cold" by a plant closure, criticized Müller.
Wüst must now work to preserve jobs.
The decline of the manufacturing industry in Frankfurt must be stopped.
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The Binding brewery in Frankfurt's Sachsenhausen district is scheduled to stop production in a year at the latest.
That's what the Radeberger Group is planning.
But there is resistance.
© Renate Hoyer
Many questions about binding in the Frankfurt Economic Committee - and few answers
In the economic committee of the city council, his parliamentary colleague Monika Christann wanted to know whether the city had a right of first refusal for the area.
She also brought up the use of the brewery by small breweries.
The committee members also had a number of other questions.
"What has been done?
What did the head of department know?
What's next for the area?” Robert Lange (CDU) wanted to know.
But most of the questions remained unanswered.
City councilor Wüst and the head of economic development, Oliver Schwebel, were not on the committee on Tuesday because they were advertising for Frankfurt at the Expo Real real estate fair in Munich.
As an alternative, Bernd Rentmeister from the Industry Competence Center for Economic Development provided information on behalf of the city - and assured that all possibilities were being examined to preserve the jobs concerned.
However, Lange criticized the fact that Wüst had not even informed the committee in writing about this important topic for Frankfurt.
A short report should only be sent after the meeting.
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The hope of getting the Binding brewery in Sachsenhausen is not very high
The hope that the city and the union could still get the brewery to continue operating was limited.
"I don't think Radeberger will row back," said Stella Schulz-Nurtsch (SPD).
Several city councilors pointed to the drop in beer consumption.
"Have you already given up?" Nico Wehnemann (Die Faction) asked.
"A brewery belongs at this point." On the other hand, there was consensus in the committee that the city should keep the area as an industrial area, i.e. not allow any conversion.
IHK President Ulrich Caspar spoke on Tuesday at FR request of a heavy loss for the location.
The end of binding also stands for the problems that industrial companies are struggling with.
"The energy prices are weighing heavily on them and there is a lack of development space." Caspar is now calling for a "broad discussion about available space".
(Christoph Manus)
List of rubrics: © Renate Hoyer
