Zurich: SPS also has no interest in the Hardturm stadium
After Halter and CS Real Estate, Swiss Prime Site has now also announced that it will not participate in the investor competition for the Hardturm stadium in Zurich. Meanwhile, the "Tages-Anzeiger" reports that several well-known interested parties want to throw their hats into the ring.
Halter AG and CS Real Estate already cancelled last week. On Friday evening, Swiss Prime Site then also withdrew. "After careful analysis and in particular the risk assessment of important aspects such as planning security, urban development, operating subsidies for football clubs, bidder guarantee and the obligation to transfer created apartments, Swiss Prime Site has come to the conclusion that the required framework conditions for an economic project realization are not target-oriented," the company writes in a statement.
Submissions for the investor competition were possible until November 13. The plan is to build a football stadium and two buildings, one of them with 175 non-profit apartments.
According to research by the "Tages-Anzeiger," Hardturm AG with Burkard Meyer Architekten and the Swiss offshoot of the Dutch BAM Group, Losinger Marazzi AG with the Gemeinnützige Bau- und Mietergenossenschaft Zürich (GBMZ) and Steiner AG with the Baugenossenschaft des Eidgenössischen Personals (BEP) and three architectural firms are likely to have bid for the project. There is also a group around Berninvest AG, which wants to implement a project by Maier Hess Architekten and two other offices from Zurich and Bern with Immo Invest AG, a partner from the hotel industry and the Zurlinden building cooperative.
It was still unclear at last whether HRS Real Estate wants to participate in the competition.
From November 16, the municipal jury will review the entries received, and on November 25, the public will be informed. The winning project will be announced in June 2016. (ah)
