As of: February 9, 2024, 10:00 a.m
By: Armin Forster, Ulrike Wilms
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After the two warehouses have been demolished and the area has been leveled, there are no plans to sell the area.
What (or whether) will be built there is unclear.
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Two halls were demolished at the Ikea site in Eching near Munich.
But contrary to what was planned, there will be no new construction there for the time being.
Now there are other options.
Eching
– What’s happening there?
Or also: What should go there?
These questions arise involuntarily when looking at the huge demolition area in the Eching-Ost industrial area north of Echinger Straße, between the two furniture stores Kare and Ikea.
Heaps of asphalt, chunks of concrete and gigantic mountains of gravel as well as excavators, cranes and other construction machinery combine to form a spectacular crater landscape that could even come from a film set.
The site in question on the state road is owned by Ikea and was intended to become the site of a new, enlarged shopping complex for the furniture store, which has been based in Eching since 1974, in 2018.
Sudden strategy change and realignment
But a change in company management was accompanied by a sudden change in strategy and a conceptual realignment with a focus on metropolitan regions and inner-city locations.
The expansion that had already been initiated for Eching - the reopening was to be celebrated in 2020 - has been put on hold until further notice.
And it should stay there for the time being.
When asked, Mayor Sebastian Thaler said that Ikea currently has no immediate plans for use.
After the halls have been demolished and the area has been leveled, there are no plans to sell the area.
However, as Thaler reports, Ikea has offered the empty site to the community on an interim basis for possible temporary use: From his point of view, the spacious area might not be a bad location for a folk festival or something similar.
This is what the Ikea press office says about the demolition work
This corresponds to the information provided by Ikea spokeswoman Louisa Klink: “As owners, we also bear responsibility for securing our properties.
By dismantling the Rodamco halls at Heisenbergstrasse 10, right next to our furniture store, we are fulfilling our obligation to make the area safe for traffic." The property has been owned by Ikea since the end of the 1990s and was used to store goods and for storage until the beginning of 2023 Rental to third parties has been used.
“Due to the age and condition of the building, we decided to dismantle the Rodamco halls.”
The demolition work is scheduled to be completed by spring 2024.
There are currently no concrete plans for the further use of the area.
Klink: “An interim use of the gravelled area for local companies is conceivable.”