Designer Outlet Soltau
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| Basic data | ||
| Location: | Soltau | |
| Opening: | August 30, 2012 | |
| Sales area : | 13,500 m² | |
| Shops: | 60 | |
| Visitors: | 1.3 million p. a. | |
| Website: | www.designeroutletsoltau.com | |
| Transport links | ||
| Railway station: | Soltau (Han) station | |
| Omnibus : | 245, 305 | |
| Motorways : | A7, B71, B209 | |
| Parking spaces : | 1,250 | |
The Designer Outlet Soltau is a factory outlet center in Soltau . Over 80 manufacturers sell branded items here at reduced prices. The outlet center is located directly at the Soltau-Ost motorway exit of the A7 and is operated by ROS Retail Outlet Shopping Management from Vienna .
description
More than 80 international brand manufacturers sell their goods at reduced prices in a recreated heather town with rows of shops and traditional half-timbered houses with plastic roofs in a thatched look. The articles mostly come from the previous season, from sample collections and production surpluses or are 1b goods. Designer fashion, sportswear and outdoor clothing make up the largest part of the range , along with shoes, fashion accessories, underwear and household appliances. The selection is complemented by restaurants. There is a tourist information office and a children's playground on the premises . Free WiFi is offered. Around 550 employees work full-time and part-time in the outlet.
history
In 1996, the city of Soltau submitted an application to change the regional planning procedure for the construction of a manufacturer direct sales center. The city of Fallingbostel also submitted an application at the same time. After the country FOC in Lower Saxony declared inadmissible, Soltau and Fallingbostel withdrew their proposals back in May 1997th While Fallingbostel stopped further efforts for the time being, Soltau carried out a procedure to change the zoning plan and to draw up a development plan for an FOC. Since the permit was refused, Soltau went to the Federal Administrative Court , which refused a building in 2006 in the last instance. The surrounding cities of Verden , Rotenburg and Lüneburg in particular protested against the building. In the state spatial planning program of 2002, FOCs were finally approved in Lower Saxony, but only for locations in regional centers . The Wolfsburg Designer Outlets were able to open in Wolfsburg in 2007 .
The Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court in Lüneburg then created the opportunity on September 1, 2005 for an application to deviate from the still valid regional planning procedure. In 2006, the Soltau Council decided to apply for a deviation from the target, which was submitted to the responsible Ministry for Rural Areas, Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection at the beginning of February 2006 . In June 2006, the application was supplemented by a fixed sales area of 10,000 m². In November 2006 the process of renewing the regional spatial planning program began, in which the construction of an FOC in the Lüneburg Heath tourist region was to be approved. Initially, the design envisaged a location in Bispingen . The studies submitted by the city of Soltau prompted the ministry to rethink and led to the search for the most suitable location. After the new regional spatial planning procedure came into effect in January 2008, FOC Soltau GmbH and the city of Soltau submitted an application for a spatial planning procedure to be carried out on July 28, 2008 . Bad Fallingbostel and Bispingen followed shortly afterwards with their applications. On February 2, 2009, the ministry came to the state planning findings that a direct manufacturer sales center in Soltau was permissible and at the same time the same in Bispingen and Bad Fallingbostel was not spatially compatible. The municipality of Bispingen filed a lawsuit against the regional planning findings, which the Lüneburg Administrative Court dismissed in the judgment of June 27, 2011 due to the merely “expert character” of the findings. At the same time, Bispingen started the procedure for the approval of an FOC despite the negative decision, but the district rejected the zoning plan as expected.
At the beginning of July 2010 the construction of the outlet in Soltau started. Bispingen then went to court to stop construction. In autumn 2010, however, the Lüneburg Administrative Court confirmed the legality of the building permit and allowed construction to begin. A complaint against this decision was also rejected in February 2011 by the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court in Lüneburg. In April 2012 the Higher Administrative Court also ruled that the development plan was legal and effective, which the Bispingen community had also questioned.
The outlet center in Soltau finally opened its doors on August 30, 2012. At the opening, almost 80 percent of the shops were rented out, and the remaining free shops also filled up in the course of the first year. In the first 12 months, more than 1.3 million people visited the center.
At the end of September 2014, Mutschler announced that the British investment fund Resolution Property Fund was acquiring a 50 percent stake in DOS as a joint venture partner.
Back in August 2014, investor Sylvie Mutschler made it clear on behalf of the operator that the sales area should be doubled to the originally planned 20,000 m². The state of Lower Saxony has refused to do this so far, and the draft of the new regional spatial planning program does not provide for an expansion of the DOS. In November 2017 the Lower Saxony Ministry of Agriculture officially rejected the extension in the form of Minister Christian Meyer . After the change of government , Minister of Economics Bernd Althusmann visited the outlet. After a request from the Greens in the state parliament, Althusmann confirmed the decision of the previous government. Mutschler filed a lawsuit against the rejection notice at the Lüneburg Administrative Court .
Brands
The following brands are u. a. Represented in the Designer Outlet Soltau:
alfi , Asics , Baldessarini , Bassetti , Bench , Betty Barclay , Brax , camel active , Carl Gross , Chiemsee , Crocs , Daniel Hechter , Esprit , Eterna , Fossil , Gant , Gerry Weber , Hallhuber , Jack & Jones , Jacques Britt , Krups , Lacoste , Laura Ashley Home , Levi's , Lindt , Marc O'Polo , Mexx , Mey , Moulinex , Nike , Puma , René Lezard , Rowenta , Samsonite , SARAR , Seidensticker , Starbucks , Steiff , Street One , Tefal , Tom Tailor , Vero Moda , WMF , Wellensteyn
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FOC Soltau: The development since 1996 on www.soltau.de (as of 2008)
- ↑ Spatial planning procedure (ROV) for a manufacturer direct sales center (FOC) Information about the spatial planning procedure on the website of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
- ↑ Factory Outlet Center: Surcharge for Soltau (PDF; 1.6 MB) Article in Heide-Kurier of February 4, 2009
- ↑ Factory outlet center in the Lüneburg Heath Judgment of the Lüneburg Administrative Court of June 27, 2011 on rechtslupe.de
- ^ Groundbreaking ceremony for Designer Outlet Center in the Heide Article on the pages of the Hamburger Abendblatt from July 6, 2010
- ↑ Legal zoning plan article on Kreiszeitung.de from April 26, 2012
- ↑ One year Designer Outlet Soltau report on business-on.de from September 11, 2013
- ↑ Investment fund enters Designer Outlet , article in the Böhme-Zeitung of September 30, 2014, p. 1
- ↑ DOS extension: State of Lower Saxony remains tough , article in the Böhme-Zeitung of August 26, 2014, p. 1
- ↑ Marco Seng: Outlet-Center Soltau must not get bigger Article on hat.de from August 22, 2018 (accessed on November 23, 2018)
Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 55.9 " N , 9 ° 55 ′ 24.4" E