Quiz shows are consistently popular with TV fans, so here’s a political question. When did the SZ report the following news? “The city council has decided with a large majority to build a new wholesale market hall on Schäftlarnstrasse.” Well, does it click? It was the May 20, 2010 issue. No, that’s not a misprint: 2010 is correct. Almost twelve years later, the city council has now decided to tender the construction of a new planning variant for private investors. Target move-in date: the year 2030. If city politicians were treated like quiz candidates, they would have to be sent home immediately.
During the debate, the parliamentary group consisting of the FDP and the Bavarian Party rightly described the timing of the construction of the new Grossmarkthalle as a “disaster”. It is the third city government that is now trying to implement the corresponding decision. If the time is right, the fourth will just inaugurate him. The fact that the current CSU city councilor and former long-time leader of the SPD parliamentary group, Alexander Reissl, rejects such criticism as unjustified falls back on himself. In 2010, the SPD had to be forced by the CSU, Greens, Left and ÖDP to agree to the new building at all.
In 2017, a draft from the responsible municipal department was finally debated in the city council under the then boss Axel Markwardt. The costs were around 160 million euros. SPD and CSU rejected the plans, the then SPD parliamentary group leader Reissl describes them today as completely unsuitable. One wonders what the municipal department and the market halls under it have been up to for seven years? And why did the then parliamentary group leader Reissl watch for five years as the SPD party friend Markwardt, who had been in office since 2012, had what he considered a completely unsuitable draft drawn up?
A private investor was sought and found as a saving solution. A company that knows fruit and vegetables, but had never built it on such a large scale. Of course, the pandemic also intervened, but the city took a risk with this choice from the start. In the meantime, the Büschl Group has bought in, which is why a Europe-wide tender is now necessary. Five years after the resolution of the investor solution. In addition to Corona and planning errors, there may be many other, understandable reasons for delays. If you look soberly at the time and the millions that flowed and continue to flow into the maintenance of the old wholesale market, then the answer to the quiz question asked at the beginning can hit your stomach hard.