Actually, the quarter on Wiesentfelser Strasse in Neuaubing “should have been buzzing like crazy” a few years ago, as district manager Daniel Genée once put it. The basics were there: the shops, the SOS Family and Children’s Day Center, the parish of St. Markus. And of course the day-care centers as well as the elementary and middle school. All embedded in blocks of flats with many people. But the ambience was missing. For a long time, the corner suffered from an urban planning flaw: the old shopping center at number 68 appeared cool and unwelcoming, while the square opposite was isolated and uninviting.
The concrete block from the 1960s has since been demolished, and the groundbreaking ceremony for Neuaubing’s new center was recently held. The center, which the municipal housing association GWG intends to complete by summer 2026, is now planned to be open and communicative. With four buildings grouped around a space that can be used in a variety of ways with a group of trees and a cooling water feature.
A spacious supermarket is to be housed on the ground floor of a building, with 35 apartments above it, half of which are subsidized. A flight of stairs leads to a green roof complete with garden, play area and pavilion. A further 15 apartments will be built in what is known as a point building with internal access, and a third building will be available for commercial use, such as the doctor’s surgeries that are urgently needed in the district and one or two smaller shops. The SOS Children’s Village is also moving back into its own building with space for the family centre, crèche and kindergarten. And with an adjoining intercultural garden.