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Economics officer Clemens Baumgärtner wants to make Schützenstrasse more beautiful.
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Schützenstrasse is an eyesore.
Economics officer Clemens Baumgärtner (CSU) now wants to change that - among other things with free drinking areas.
Munich - It is the entrance gate from the main train station to the city center: Schützenstrasse.
But it's not really that beautiful - especially not anymore since the Karstadt is empty and the future of the new building after the Signa bankruptcy is unclear.
Drug addicts and homeless people live inside, and there are construction fences outside.
And Schützenstrasse itself is becoming more and more of an eyesore.
Munich's economics officer Clemens Baumgärtner (CSU) now wants to change that - with a beauty treatment for Schützenstrasse!
“Sodom and Gomorrah must come to an end,” says Baumgärtner.
And very specifically: “Our city manager is currently planning with the building department, the district administration department and the police how to revitalize Schützenstrasse.”
New plans for Schützenstrasse: free drinking areas, light installations and street musicians should enliven the place
The city's plan is now being developed together with the owners, including the insolvency administrator who looks after the former Karstadt property.
There are currently discussions with two “significant owners” who are also interested in ending Schützenstrasse’s grubby image.
“They basically signaled their willingness,” says Baumgärtner.
Ultimately, real estate also benefits from a better image of the street.
Baumgärtner can, for example, imagine a light installation in the future.
In addition, the construction fences could be covered in the same way as has already been done elsewhere - for example at Marienhof.
“And we have to ask ourselves whether we should create free drinking areas.
First we talk to the restaurateurs who are already there.
Food trucks would also be conceivable.” Furthermore, “selected street musicians” could play on Schützenstrasse in the future.
“We would then have food trucks, street musicians during the day, and free drinking areas in the evening.” A pop-up discotheque would also be conceivable, which already existed last year.
The Munich disco label Toy Tonics around Mathias Modica filled Schützenstrasse with life for three months - at least in the evenings.
Baumgärtner on the new plans for Schützenstrasse: “Something should be visible in six to eight weeks”
Baumgärtner's plans are very concrete; things could start as early as this summer.
“Something should be visible in six to eight weeks.
We want to show that the street will not remain as it currently is,” says Baumgärtner.
“We want to show that this is not an unmonitored field.” Sure, the areas could also be guarded day and night.
“But the best surveillance is when there is public traffic.”