Ibn Gvirol Street is one of the most significant streets in Tel Aviv-Jaffa's city center, crossing the city center quarters and leading to the southern parts of the city and its northern neighborhoods. The street serves as an axis for pedestrians, cyclists, public transportation, and the light rail – the Green Line – is currently being planned and implemented along it, and is crossed by the Purple Line on Arlozorov Street.
This is a mixed-use and bustling street, with many attractions along its length and with clear construction characteristics. In addition, the southern part of the street is included in the UNESCO declaration, as a World Heritage Site in the city center, with architectural values in the international style.
The plan, covering an area of about 198 dunams, includes both sides of Ibn Gvirol Street. The goal of the plan is to renew the street by intensifying construction and mixing its uses and adapting it to the planned implementation of the Green Line, while preserving the values of the street and its unique construction, while preserving the characteristics of the existing fabric in the area of declaration, and as a complement to the plan for the 3rd-4th districts that did not include the street.
The plan defines the areas on the street as mixed, "residential, commercial and employment", requires an active commercial façade towards the street, above which is an employment and commercial floor, and allows the utilization of the subsoil in determining commercial and employment uses on these floors. In addition, the plan establishes instructions for the renewal of Castel Square at the intersection of Pinkas and Nordau streets, which will include, inter alia, building rights for a café and upgrading the public space.
Plan for the renewal of Ibn Gvirol Street (Photo: official website, illustration: Danny Lazar Architects)
The plan stipulates that at least 50% of the new construction will be residential and establishes a diverse mix of apartments, in which 20% of the apartments will be small apartments, 50 square meters in size. In addition, uses of a public nature are proposed for the benefit of the residents of the area, such as clinics, daycare centers, kindergartens, activity workshops for classes and gyms, and also allows hotel use.
The proposed building volumes on the street are in accordance with the division of the White City declaration area: the area outside the boundaries of the declaration area and within the boundaries of the declaration area. Outside the declaration area, the plan allows for demolition and reconstruction up to a height of 8 floors + a roof floor in retreat. In the declaration area, the plan allows for two tracks for renewal: demolition and reconstruction up to 6 floors high + roof floor in retreat, and an addition track to an existing building that allows the addition of a typical floor + a roof floor in retreat up to 5 floors high + a roof floor in retreat.
Chairman of the Tel Aviv District Planning and Building Committee, Eran Nitzan: "Ibn Gvirol Street is one of the most important arteries in the city of Tel Aviv. The Ibn Gvirol plan, initiated by the city of Tel Aviv and approved by the District Committee, will enable the renewal of this central street against the background of the Green Line that is expected to pass through it and its construction is underway. Raising buildings to nine and a half floors, designating the foundation floors as commercial floors, expropriating sidewalk areas for pedestrians, arranging the colonnade along the street, the policy of exit rooms to rooftops – all these and many other issues are included in this important plan. The renewal plan for Ibn Gvirol Street reflects Tel Aviv's vision of vibrant commerce around the metro lines alongside municipal and district policies to increase construction around the light rail lines, reduce parking and give priority to pedestrians, cyclists and light rail users."
Tel Aviv District Planner at the Planning Authority, Arch. Erez Ben-Eliezer: "The goal of the Ibn Gvirol Street renewal plan is to bring about the renewal of the street by intensifying construction and mixing its uses and adapting it to the planned implementation of the Green Line, while preserving the values of the street and its unique construction, while preserving the characteristics of the existing fabric in the area of declaration, and as a complement to the plan for Quarters 3-4, which did not include the street."
The plan was initiated by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Local Committee and was prepared by Danny Lazar Architects.
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