As of: February 19, 2024, 5:00 p.m
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The retail park that an investor wants to build on a vacant site in the Kitzberger Feld II industrial area in Nandlstadt is causing criticism in the neighboring community of Attenkirchen.
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The municipality of Attenkirchen opposes the shopping center planned in Nandlstadt in the Kitzberger Feld II industrial area. The mayor proposes a different solution instead.
Attenkirchen
– The community of Attenkirchen looks at the plans of its neighbor Nandlstadt with stomachache.
As reported, the market wants to build a new specialist retail center in the “Kitzberger Feld II” commercial area and designate a special area for this under the name “Retail with Gastronomy”.
In Attenkirchen people fear negative effects.
That's why the local council voted, albeit by a narrow majority, to raise objections to the project at its most recent meeting.
Mayor worries about retail
The committee's vote took place as part of the obligatory participation of neighboring communities in drawing up the Nandlstadt development and green space plan.
Five of nine Attenkirchen councilors spoke out against it.
As Mayor Mathias Kern announced, Nandlstadt is instead being proposed “an inter-municipal cooperation to protect regional retail and regional gastronomy”.
The Attenkirchen side criticizes the fact that the designation of the special area involves a change in strategy in the spirit of the Integrated Urban Development Concept (ISEK) coordinated with the citizens of Nandlstadt.
Instead of strengthening the historic market core, they are practically creating competition for themselves on the so-called “green field”.
According to Kern, this also has an impact on the surrounding communities.
An increase in traffic is to be expected because the potential in Nandlstadt alone is not sufficient for a shopping center of this size.
The project covers a total of 4000 square meters.
The mayor of Attenkirchen, Mathias Kern, criticizes the Nandlstadt plans.
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In addition to a full-range grocery store and a discount store, the plan also includes a drugstore, a beverage store, a snack bar and a bakery with a café.
Losses in local retail cannot therefore be ruled out, says Kern.
The description of his community explicitly mentions the local bakeries Schindele and Gabelsberger, the Lehner butcher's shop, the Sellmeier fruit and vegetable shop, the Nieder drinks market as well as the Ostermeier inn in Gütlsdorf, the Trattoria Giuseppe and the Ristorante L'Olive in Thalham.
All of these companies would automatically be put under price pressure by greater competition and their supra-regional focus.
Kern sees this as an existential threat to the companies.
Kern criticizes the lack of analysis
When asked by the FT, Kern explained: “I have been approached by retailers.”
He found it disturbing in the process that no traffic analysis or market study was carried out.
In his opinion, a more detailed investigation should have been carried out.
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However, Kern does not see the “tablecloth” between the two neighboring communities as being cut by the objections.
He is in constant contact with his Nandlstad colleague Gerhard Betz and has already clearly communicated his position in advance.
The mayor of Nandlstadt, Gerhard Betz, explains his next steps.
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Betz faces the criticism calmly.
“We live in a democracy, and anyone who has concerns can raise them.” In the end, the objections would be weighed up and the approach justified accordingly.
He couldn't understand the idea of competition.
After all, there are also large markets in other surrounding communities.
Things are now going their way and he doesn't see any major changes to the planning.
Some Nandlstadt market councilors have also expressed criticism of the retail park.