Zurich: Residential development planned for Affoltern
A development with 138 new apartments is to be built on municipal land in Affoltern. The developer is the Eigengrund Zurich housing cooperative.
On Obsthaldenstrasse in the Affoltern district, the housing cooperative Eigengrund Zürich (SGE) is planning a new neighborhood on city-owned land for around CHF 66 million.
The project was designed by Schneider Studer Primas Architekten from Zurich and atelier tp Landschaftsarchitektur from Rapperswil, who won the project competition in 2014. The plan is for a development with 138 apartments, ten separately rentable rooms, a municipal double kindergarten, a private daycare center and commercial premises. In addition, 93 parking spaces are planned. Around 30 percent of the apartments will be subsidized.
If the Zurich municipal council deals with and approves the building lease agreements as planned in spring/summer 2017, the building application can be submitted at the beginning of 2018. The first tenants could then move into the new development in 2022.
The 17,669 sqm site is divided into two perimeters that are not adjacent to each other, which is why the city council is submitting two building lease agreements to the municipal council for approval. Between the perimeters is a road and the property of a private owner, which was included in the competition as part of the planned site development.
With over 1,400 members and around 940 apartments in 16 estates, the SGE is one of the medium-sized building cooperatives in Zurich. Six of these estates are located in the city, the others in the Limmat and Furttal valleys and in Egg. To date, there are three building lease agreements with the city for housing estates in Wiedikon and Höngg.
