Taufkirchen gets new quarters
Created: 11/26/2022, 12:20 p.m
By: Laura May
Living in a vacuum: A quarter with a hotel and office building is to be built next to the Jochen Schweizer Arena – so far there has been a lack of other infrastructure.
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Flying, surfing and diving into virtual worlds - that's possible in the Jochen Schweizer Arena.
But the propeller-shaped building has so far been lonely and secluded in the east of Taufkirchen.
This is about to change soon.
Taufkirchen
- A hotel on the A8 side and an office building on Ludwig-Bölkow-Allee are to make a so-called quarter out of the surrounding open space.
Representatives of Art-Invest Real Estate presented the project to the building committee.
Actually, construction should have started two years ago, but: "Corona has caused delays everywhere," said Mayor Ulrich Sander (independent).
According to Pier Mura, the technical project manager at Cologne's Art-Invest, the could start next November.
His remarks describe a space in which many things should come together: digital mobility concept, sustainable energy concept including groundwater use, green roofs and green inner courtyards, as little CO2 footprint as possible in the construction phase - "an overall focus on the topic of sustainability".
Plaza as center
A five meter high plaza will form the center of the site – a common area for hotel guests, office workers and adventure seekers.
"A space in which working and living no longer know any clear demarcation." Art-Invest's team even had a specialist for digital parking space management on the building committee: Neven Heuberger from the Munich-based company Park Here.
According to him, his digital parking concept, in which all available parking spaces are booked in advance via an application and thus optimally distributed between users, could reduce the need for parking spaces from 386 to 207.
Parking is an issue
However, the local councils were only moderately enthusiastic about the idea of building fewer parking spaces and thereby sealing less ground.
The planned site is too remote and poorly connected to public transport to save on parking spaces.
"In the best case, all jobs are occupied, then we also need all parking spaces," said Peter Hofbauer (FW).
Pier Mura replied that in modern offices and new working environments not all employees are always there, but that fewer parking spaces are needed due to hybrid concepts of home office and open workspaces without fixed places at office desks.
However, the new companies would consider this when they moved in and would only rent the necessary office space, said Jutta Henkel (Greens).
"It's different whether an existing office is no longer being used or a company is relocating."
In the end, the detailed parking lot situation rather distracted from the planned large-scale project "Jochen-Schweizer-Quartier".
When the planned U5 extension comes, the infrastructure here will change a lot anyway.