Apartments are in great demand in Munich, especially cheap ones, and the city is constantly approving this never-ending demand, no matter how many construction projects it pushes forward. The city council’s planning committee has now made the preliminary decision to grant building rights for two new quarters in Neuperlach and Allach. This involves 950 apartments for around 2,300 people, 40 percent of which are subsidized or reduced in price.
The largest part, 725 apartments, is to be built north of the Otto-Hahn-Ring in Neuperlach, where there are now around 1,400 parking spaces for the Siemens AG research center. RFR Development GmbH is planning a development that is divided into three residential courtyards and is equipped with roof gardens and photovoltaics. A twelve-story high-rise building is planned at the intersection of Otto-Hahn-Ring and Carl-Wery-Straße. Commercial space and two daycare centers are also to be built on the 50,000 square meter parking area. The current parking area will be partially unsealed and the district will be embedded in 2.7 hectares of green space, including the tree wall that delimits the area to the north from the next residential area.
In the future, Siemens employees will park their cars in a new parking garage on Arnold-Sommerfeld-Straße. Its design was a topic of debate in the planning committee: “A parking garage is also nice,” stated Simone Burger (SPD), thus opening the door to city planning officer Elisabeth Merk. This will be communicated to the investor.
Christian Smolka (Greens) and Fabian Ewald (CSU) advocated keeping an eye on primary school supplies. The primary school on Kafkastraße is planned for this, for which a five-story replacement building is planned so that the children from the new district have a place at school. All speakers emphasized the good development of the new district and positively assessed the conversion of the parking lot into a residential area. The committee unanimously approved the so-called approval decision for the development plan. The new building law, which is necessary for the construction project, comes into being when the city council also passes the statute resolution – which is usually a formality.
There was also approval for the “Hirmerei”, whose project-related development plan the committee also made a decision to approve. This project is named after the original investor, the Andechs real estate entrepreneur Christian Hirmer, also known from the fashion department store of the same name, who sold his shares in the “Hirmerei” this year to the Empira Group, an investment company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
The change of ownership did not change the plans: 230 apartments for up to 600 people are to be built on the 2.2 hectare trapezoidal area in Allach on the border with Karlsfeld. A ring-shaped building complex with 11,000 square meters of green space and a daycare center is planned between Eversbusch-, Otto-Warburg-Straße and the railway tracks.
The owners of Empira estimate that construction will take at least two years, once they can get started. For now, the project is still in the approval process. The committee passed the approval decision for this project by a majority, against the votes of the CSU/Free Voters, FDP/Bayernpartei and ÖDP/Munich List factions.
One step ahead: planning the “cherry orchards”
The “cherry orchards” are already a decisive step further: the planning committee made the statutory resolution for this new residential area last week and thereby created building rights. The resolution only needs to be confirmed by the general assembly, this is also a formality.
To the south of the Allach S-Bahn station, the Eckpfeiler Immobilien Group from Pullach is planning to convert a massively sealed twelve-hectare commercial area into a residential area: 1,300 apartments for around 3,000 people are to be built on the former site of the Theodor Kirsch & Söhne steam sawmill, 40 percent of which will also be social funded, plus a primary school and four daycare centers. Five construction phases are planned and everything should be finished in seven years.