It will be a bit of a walk to the nearest supermarket, but the next cultural delight is just a stone’s throw away: 450 apartments and a new creative quarter are to be built on the premises of Stadtwerke München (SWM) south of the Gasteig-Interim in Sendling. The city council’s planning committee voted unanimously on Wednesday to create the legal framework for the project. An urban planning and landscape planning ideas competition is being announced for the specific design.
The 38,000 square meter area between Hans-Preißingerstrasse and Schäftlarnstrasse south of the exit to the Brudermühl tunnel largely belongs to the public utility company. They want to move training buildings, workshops and storage areas to other locations and create space for an “urban district”. In the south, 450 apartments are planned according to Sobon principles in buildings of up to eight floors, possibly including SWM company apartments, while in the north “an attractive mix of culture and creative industries” is to be created.
The Stadtwerke site had been a kind of creative district for decades before the Isar Philharmonic Hall, adult education center, city library and university for music and theater moved in as part of the general renovation of the Gasteig a year ago. The Gasteig-Interim added the HP8 suffix to its name, the abbreviation for the address Hans-Preißinger-Straße 8, which originally referred to the creative and commercial scene there. Around 70 companies with up to 400 employees belonged to it, from architects to carpenters, from photographers to dancers. Some of these tenants had to move away because the Gasteig needed their space.
The big unknown is the Gasteig interim
Those who are still there should be able to stay: “The aim is to preserve the established structures of cultural, creative and commercial uses in the planning area,” says the planning department’s submission. For example, creative people and craftsmen should have space in the ground floor areas of the houses along Schäftlarnstrasse. In the discussion in the planning committee, Heike Kainz and Alexander Reissl (both CSU) specifically advocated small businesses.
Representatives of the town hall coalition found words of praise for the restructuring project in the committee. According to Paul Bickelbacher (Greens), this could become a third quarter after the Werksviertel and creative quarters, where a mixture of culture, trade and living is created. Simone Burger (SPD) emphasized that the aim was to develop as much affordable housing as possible. “For us, the idea is to enable bus drivers and tram drivers to live on the Isar floodplains.”
The big unknown in all plans is the Gasteig interim – the question, for example, of what will happen to the Isarphilharmonie when the Philharmoniker no longer need it at some point. It was actually intended as a temporary solution, but demolition has long been in question: “In particular, the whereabouts of the concert hall” should be “investigated and, if necessary, integrated into the urban planning concept,” explains the planning department.
It is also unclear how long the general renovation of the Gasteig will take, i.e. how long the VHS, city library and Co. will occupy the northern part of the HP8 site. But because construction has to be done quickly, you start at the other end: The new quarter is being developed from south to north, including a daycare center with four crèche and four kindergarten groups, which is also intended to remedy the daycare deficit in Sendling.
It is still being checked whether after-school care and primary school places are sufficient, but it is certainly the case with the shopping possibilities: there will be no large-scale retail trade in the new urban quarter, at most “small-scale supplementary offers”. Because there shouldn’t be any competition with the “near area center” near the Brudermühlstrasse underground station. This supermarket, however, is a ten-minute walk away.