Stadium and apartments: does Salzburg need the mega project?
Austria-Salzburg investor Max Aicher has big ideas in mind: For 193 million euros, the 87-year-old wants to build a multi-purpose stadium for 5,000 spectators and 482 apartments on the exhibition grounds (we reported). To do this, the building contractor is switching to a plot of land on the exhibition grounds that currently has a garbage dump and part of which belongs to the city of Salzburg.
Apartments and stadium planned for the exhibition center
Aicher would implement the stadium and residential project in the Liefering district; after completion, the sports facility would become the property of the City of Salzburg. The only condition of the entrepreneur is that the violets become the main tenant. The real estate is intended to refinance the project for the investor. It seems like two birds are killed with one stone: SV Austria Salzburg receives a stadium, the city of Salzburg die.
“Offer is like fishing for farmers”
But the city of Salzburg was recently skeptical: “The offer is like a farm catcher Mayor Harald Preuner (ÖVP) on SALZBURG24 request.
The key data for the stadium project
- Total cost of 193 million euros
- Multipurpose stadium for 5,000 spectators
- 482 two-, three- or four-room apartments
- Almost 48 meters high – slightly below the “Cool Mama” hotel
- TV broadcasts should be possible
- On an area of around 19,000 square meters
- Two-story underground car park with 1,200 spaces
- Almost 200 social apartments are to be built – the rest will become property
- As in Freilassing, the price per square meter should be around 6 euros
Parties are in favor of the stadium project
After the SPÖ, FPÖ and NEOS submitted an application for examination to the city senate on Monday, the building project is now being scrutinized more closely. “ÖVP Mayor Preuner must end the blockade policy and at least examine the project and then a political discussion about it”, FPÖ city party leader Andreas Reindl is quoted in a broadcast together with the SPÖ and NEOS.
City of Salzburg examines building projects
The application is now with the spatial planning and building authorities, for which Vice Mayor Barbara Unterkofler (ÖVP) is responsible. KPÖ-Plus councilor Kay-Michael Dankl spoke out in favor of a completely different test procedure. He had no confidence in the assessment of an ÖVP-led department and suggested that the Salzburg Institute for Spatial Planning and Housing (SIR) should carry out an examination.
(Source: SALZBURG24)