In 2017, Sirius Facilities GmbH sold its business park of the same name to Fiduciary Capital GmbH, based in Grünwald, for 85 million euros and then rented the former Siemens property back from the new owner and passed it on to users. Now this rental agreement ends, and so it is time for changes on the 6.5 hectare site north of Rupert-Mayer-Straße, between Tölzer Straße, August-Zeune-Weg and the tracks of the S7 to Wolfratshausen: From the Sirius Business Park , a purely commercial area with many 1960s buildings just south of the Obersendling subway station, Fiduciary Capital wants to create the M-Park.
A sustainably designed mixed quarter with offices, apartments, retail, commerce, restaurants, a hotel, senior citizens’ and children’s facilities is planned. This includes three high-rise buildings that will house apartments as well as offices. The green-red town hall coalition has now pushed through this mix of uses against the votes of the CSU/Free Voters and FDP. In addition, the subway station is to be equipped with elevators sooner than planned. For years, residents have complained that there are only steep ramps towards Tölzer Straße.
The Dutch architectural firm MVRDV, which designed, among other things, the Barcode House and Werk 12 in the Werksviertel in Munich, is proposing three high points of 60.5, 67.5 and 74.5 meters high for the M-Park. They are to be built near the railway tracks, as a striking conclusion to a base development with six to nine floors on the remaining area. In the study, more than 152,000 square meters of floor space are distributed across a dozen buildings, between which the now sealed area is to be transformed into “a lush, green, urban landscape” with gently curved paths. 30,000 square meters of green spaces, some of which are publicly accessible, are planned.
The planning department considers high-rise buildings to be possible in principle at this location. Although the cityscape compatibility study shows that the three high points from the tower of St. Peter’s Church together with the former Siemens high-rise “appear as a dense, compact overall volume”, the authority judges that there is no “significant impairment” of the city skyline. Such heights are still too much for the district committee. He refers to the specifications of the high-rise study and is also committed to ensuring that many more apartments are built in M-Park.
But that’s difficult: 34,700 square meters of floor space, almost a quarter of the entire space, are to be used for “special housing”. This refers to student apartments and intergenerational assisted living. Classic living is to be examined for a further 10,000 square meters. Taken together, the two would correspond to around 470 apartments, which is not even half of what the investor and the city were originally aiming for.
The reason for the reduction is the school situation. The primary school on Baierbrunner Straße is fully occupied, the new five-class primary school on Aidenbachstraße will not be available until 2028 because it was previously used as alternative accommodation for the Zielstatt school. In addition, “complex district adjustments are necessary,” writes the planning department. However, the government of Upper Bavaria does not determine school districts five years in advance. However, since the first apartments in M-Park are not due to be completed until 2029 at the earliest, the town hall coalition has also persuaded the planning committee to consider keeping additional areas free for classic apartments.
The opposition criticized this sharply. Alexander Reissl (CSU) said he was wondering how this keeping free would work in the further planning process. “If I want more housing, I have to adapt and reduce a lot of other things, because you have to meet a lot more demands for housing than for business.”
The investors already have building permits for the M-Plaza subproject
With the requirements, the project will be “delayed by at least years,” predicted Jörg Hoffmann (FDP). “Property developers also have to earn something, and they don’t do that with such amendments. And in the end they don’t do anything,” he said. City planning officer Elisabeth Merk explained that we need to investigate what more apartments mean for the size of the open spaces.
Most city councilors agreed that the M-Park project offers “added value for Obersendling,” as Veronika Mirlach (CSU) put it. Paul Bickelbacher (Greens) spoke of a “well-initiated development”, Christian Müller (SPD) hoped that it would be possible to “orient the location for the future” and to combine different types of residential and commercial areas.
On Wednesday, the planning committee took the first step towards building law and approved key data and planning goals. Based on the specifications, investor Fiduciary Capital is now to develop a master plan, which in turn forms the basis for four implementation competitions: one for the design of the open spaces and three for the building construction sections.
The investors already have a building permit for a first sub-project, the so-called M-Plaza on the corner of Rupert-Mayer- and Tölzer Strasse with almost 27,000 square meters. This building is also being planned using a timber hybrid construction method.