Commercial space in Freising "sold out": FSM wants to take countermeasures - otherwise there is a risk of mismanagement

The city of Freising has sold almost all of its own commercial space.

The FSM now wants to create new commercial areas in order to be able to keep local businesses.

Freising

– Almost all commercial space owned by the city of Freising has been sold.

It will be years before new commercial areas are designated and development plans drawn up as part of an update of the land use plan.

But local companies that want to expand cannot wait that long.

The Freising center is therefore committed to short-term solutions.

"Hardly a month goes by without companies located in the city asking for space," reports the FSM parliamentary group leader, Reinhard Fiedler, during a press conference.

He expects that demand will increase significantly as soon as the economy picks up again.

A demand that the city is currently unable to meet.

Finding ways to support and keep these businesses has long been important to us.

Finance officer Monika Schwind

"We're sold out," clarifies planning officer Hans Hölzl.

"We can't offer companies anything at the moment, and that's a bad sign for the city." The administration in the town hall is already working on updating the land use plan.

However, Hölzl emphasizes that it can take up to ten years for new business parks to develop in this way.

However, the FSM is currently not concerned with large new commercial areas and the settlement of external companies, but with finding short-term solutions on smaller areas for local companies.

Finance officer Monika Schwind gives examples of handicraft businesses that are located in the middle of a residential area and want to move.

Successful companies looking to expand their operations.

Or start-ups that started out in the Weihenstephan business incubator, for example, and are now looking for their own space.

“It has long been important to us to find ways that we can support and keep these businesses.

Because once they're gone, they won't come back."

The negative effects are obvious.

The trade tax revenue, which is already meager at the moment, would be further reduced - and that in times when the city no longer has any reserves, as Schwind emphasizes.

"Everything that we spend from now on, we have to finance with income." But for the local people, too, the relocation of companies would be a loss of quality, as local jobs and training places would then be lost.

Thanks to the use of modern technology and construction methods, the commercial settlement can succeed in a space-saving, resource-saving and low-emission manner.

Planning officer Hans Hölzl

In order to counteract this, the FSM has submitted an application to the town hall: The administration should promptly examine where further areas for the settlement of trade could be designated.

The results of the company survey, which is currently being carried out and provides information about the specific need, should also be included.

The city council would then have to decide on suitable areas.

Hölzl thinks of private properties that are in existing building areas or on the edge of current commercial areas.

The city not only has the option of buying the appropriate areas, but can also offer the owners an exchange, since the city, at the instigation of the FSM, has acquired interesting areas for precisely this reason.

"Thanks to the use of modern technology and construction methods, the commercial settlement can succeed in a space-saving, resource-saving and low-emission manner."

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The application by the FSM is to be discussed on Thursday.

Then the city council meets.

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