Bern: Green light for SPS housing project
Bern's voters have approved the Weltpoststrasse Nord development plan. This will allow Swiss Prime Site AG (SPS) to build a development with around 175 apartments on the site.
The landowner of the site is the Burgergemeinde Bern, which has granted the site to the real estate company SPS under a building lease. The plan is to build around 175 rental and owner-occupied apartments for around 340 people. The building regulations, which were approved by 81 percent of the votes, stipulate among other things that at least one third of the apartments must be reserved for affordable rental housing.
According to the city of Bern, the building permit process is expected to be carried out in 2017, with the first apartments scheduled to be occupied in 2019.
The zoning ordinance concerns the currently undeveloped part of the overall site north of Weltpoststrasse, which is occupied by soccer fields and tennis courts, and is part of the long-term plan to transform the overall site north of Weltpoststrasse into a residential location. (ah)
