Biel/Nidau: City councillors discuss Agglolac
The city councils of Nidau and Biel (BE) will discuss the Agglolac project on March 17 and 18. If the politicians approve the project, the contract already concluded for the implementation of the project will come into force. However, the people will have the final say.
For more than ten years, the cities of Biel and Nidau have been working on the development of the former Expo site. On the site between the Bay of Lake Biel and Nidau Castle, a neighborhood with around 120,000 square meters of gross floor area is to be built under the name Agglolac. A public park is planned on the lakeshore in the currently largely fallow part of the site. Behind it, various buildings for a total of 1,500 residents are planned, including a high-rise building 48 meters high. The investment volume is CHF 500 million.
The cities of Nidau and Biel had already founded the Agglolac project company with Mobimo AG in 2013 on behalf of their parliaments. In the "Contract concerning the Agglolac project", the three partners regulated the further procedure last spring. The contract will come into force if first the city councils and then also the voters of Nidau and Biel approve the project, according to the city of Nidau.
It is envisaged that the two cities will transfer their real estate in the Agglolac perimeter free of charge to the yet-to-be-founded Nidau-Biel/Bienne lakeshore community association. The community association is to grant Mobimo AG building rights on an area of 35,160 square meters and sell it a further 18,319 square meters. The association is to use the expected proceeds of CHF 89.4 million for the construction of the public facilities and infrastructure and their long-term maintenance, among other things. (tp)
