Basel: Former Behring House becomes residential building

How, among other things, the Basel newspaper reported, the listed building from 1587 and the new building in the courtyard from 2003 at Petersgasse 34 are to be converted and put to new use.

The owner at the time, Dieter Behring, had the rear building built and subsequently lived in it with his wife until he was arrested in 2004. The buildings have been empty for a good ten years. Behring, who was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for commercial fraud in September 2016, died in March of this year.

Shortly afterwards, the Indian entrepreneur couple Nita and Samir Shah acquired the property on Petersgasse and now want to have it converted for CHF 2.65 million. According to the newspaper report, a total of eight apartments are to be created. Two units in the rear building - an apartment with 225 sqm on the ground floor and first floor and one with almost 400 sqm - are to be used by the new owners themselves. The other apartments in both houses have areas of between around 40 and 200 sqm and are to be rented out.

A swimming hall in the third basement of the rear building is to be converted into fitness areas. The car park on the first basement level with six spaces, which can only be reached via a car lift, is to be used again. (ah)