Basel: Building lease agreement for former Felix Platter Hospital approved
The building cooperative wohnen&mehr can realize its housing project on the site of the former Felix Platter Hospital. The government council has approved the building rights contract for this.
According to the agreement, the building cooperative wohnen&mehr is taking over 36,000 sqm of space from the canton of Basel-Stadt under building rights and will realize 500 to 550 cooperative apartments as well as space for neighborhood uses and small businesses with the "Westfeld" project.
In 2015, the government council decided that the entire area freed up by the new construction of the Felix Platter Hospital should be used completely and exclusively for new cooperative apartments. At the end of 2016, the Municipality of the City of Basel and wohnen&mehr signed a letter of intent to this effect, and now the building lease agreement has been concluded.
Planning for the new buildings and for the conversion of the existing hospital building has been underway since 2017.
