Should the city say goodbye to the investor model and take the new building of the wholesale market hall into its own hands again? If it goes to the left in the city council, that would be the way to go. “I would argue that the town hall majority thinks better and that the city should take care of this part of the general welfare for the population itself,” said City Councilor Brigitte Wolf when the local committee on Thursday discussed the current status of the New building project went.
She described that five years ago the municipal department had worked out a detailed concept for the urgently needed new construction of the wholesale market hall, which has been in a miserable structural condition for years. The former city council majority of the CSU and SPD overturned this model in 2017 and from then on relied on the investor model in the heritable building right, in which hardly anything has progressed in the past year and a half, as communal officer Kristina Frank described in a template.
What she has not yet written: The company Umschlagzentrum Großmarkt München (UGM), which is to take over the heritable building right, announced on Wednesday that they were in promising negotiations with an investor for the construction project, which – if it works – will bring new momentum to the matter could.
At the same time, the city will have to spend around 30 million euros by 2024 alone to keep halls that are destined for demolition operationally safe. “As of today, we have the main measures in view,” said market hall boss Kira Weißbach in the committee. “But with such an old building, you can never tell what will happen after 2024.” Therefore, one cannot guarantee that no further major investments will be necessary afterwards. The majority of the city council postponed the decision on the market halls’ business plan with expenditure for 2022. “We would like to discuss that again,” said Kathrin Abele (SPD).
In view of this overall situation, “we are feeling at a dead end,” said Anna Hanusch, chairman of the largest city council group of the Greens / Pink List. Therefore it is all the more regrettable that the planning of the city in 2017 “was trashed with the stroke of a pen”. Now we need “concrete statements in the next few weeks” as to how the investor model should proceed, “otherwise we have to pull the rip cord”. Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) announced that he had asked the administration “to clarify the outstanding questions and to present a corresponding draft resolution by March 2022 at the latest, in which in particular the updated time and cost plan is presented”.
Alexander Reissl (CSU), who was still the SPD parliamentary leader at the time, took a different point of view on the 2017 city council decision. The CSU and SPD had stopped the new urban building project because the dealers saw many disadvantages on the wholesale market. There was a risk that they would move to a planned wholesale market hall in Vaterstetten. Nicola Holtmann (ÖDP) followed up on this and said that if nothing else goes ahead with the investor model, “then we have to dig up and improve the old model of the city again”.