Letzipark

Letzipark
Letzipark logo
Basic data
Location:	Zurich-Altstetten Baslerstrasse 50, 8048 Zurich
Opening:	March 25, 1987
Sales area :	26,174 m²
Shops:	54 (2014)
Turnover :	CHF 321 million (2014)
Website:	lastipark.ch
Transport links
Railway station:	Zurich Altstetten
Stops:	Freihofstrasse, Kappeli, Letzipark, Letzipark West, Letzigrund
S-Bahn :	S 3 S 5 S 12 S 14 S 19
Tram :	2
Omnibus :	31 , 83 , 89
Parking spaces :	1500 (3 hours free during opening hours)
Technical specifications
Construction time :	1984-1987

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The Letzipark is a shopping center in Zurich Altstetten . It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Letzigrund stadium and shares a car park with 1500 spaces with it.

According to its own account, the shopping center has a good 60 shops from the categories clothing, services, hobbies & leisure, shoes, department stores and living & household. In 2008, the shopping center achieved sales of CHF 251 million on a sales area of ​​26,174 m² and was therefore in 10th place in Switzerland.

history

Today's Letzipark complex was built in stages between 1984 and 1987, instead of a “K3000” large branch of the Konsumverein Zürich (KVZ) and a “Jumbo” building center of the Maus Frères Holding . The flagship project, led by the consumer association, was intended to mark the entry into the business model of a shopping center (locally “Neumarkt Altstetten”, nationally “ Glattzentrum ”), which was successfully implemented by Migros at the time . For this, the support of the Maus group was successfully secured, which participated as a co-owner.

At the official opening of the shopping center on March 25, 1987, the two owners were represented with their former chain stores: the consumer association with a modern and spacious “K3000” flagship branch and a branch of the discounter “Billi” - both grocery stores - as well as the Maus- Group with a renewed “Jumbo” hardware store and the second “Vilan” department store in Zurich . The Maus Group, on the other hand, had to do without a jumbo hypermarket with a range of groceries, as this was the co-owner's main business area. Important tenants from the very beginning were the furniture store “ Möbel Pfister ” with a second city branch and the clothing chain “ C&A ”.

In the years that followed, various changes were made, including the acquisition of a majority stake in the consumer association by Coop in 1991 , which was followed by the complete takeover in 1995. The name “K3000” disappeared from the Swiss market by 1996, when all locations were converted into “Coop” branches. Coop sold the “Billi” discounter in 1998 to Denner , who took over 49 of the total of 60 branches; The “Billi” branches quickly became “Denner” branches. The name «Vilan» was replaced by « Manor » in September 2000 , when the Maus Group abandoned the regionally different names of its department store chain with the introduction of a one-brand strategy.

The clothing chain “C&A” has since given up its location in Letzipark, the sales area has been taken over by the Swiss Deichmann subsidiary Dosenbach-Ochsner (“Dosenbach Shoes” and “Ochsner Sport” in one branch). The furniture store «Pfister» has adjusted the orientation of the branch and greatly reduced the exhibition area. The focus of the exhibited range is now on curtains and so-called home accessories; The clothing chain Charles Vögele and the co-op chain Interdiscount (entertainment electronics) have taken over the sales area that has become free .

Location and development

The area is enclosed by Hohlstrasse in the north, Baslerstrasse in the south and Flurstrasse in the west. The area is sealed off to the east, and Freihofstrasse runs east of the properties there. There is a difference in altitude between Hohlstrasse and Baslerstrasse; The area development is located in the southern part of the area, on the higher Baslerstrasse and includes the three-story shopping center in the east and the five-story car park with two attached properties in the west. The middle sales level and parking level 4 are located on the level of Baslerstrasse, their connection being designed as the main pedestrian access to the shopping center and the parking garage.

The northern part of the area forms a slight depression from Hohlstrasse towards the overbuilding, on the same level are the lower sales level and parking level 2. The orientation of this area part towards individual traffic is illustrated in particular by a large Coop petrol station with a car wash, and a McDonald’s fast restaurant with drive-thru switch and a support point of the car rental company Avis .

Private transport

Access to the car park is via Hohlstrasse to the north - an important inner-city traffic axis - or Baslerstrasse to the south, on which the Letzigrund stadium is located further east. The five parking levels have 1,500 spaces - a lot for Zurich standards - and are connected to one another by two spiral ramps.

During the shopping center's opening hours, the car park can be used free of charge for three hours, after which the parking fees rise rapidly to keep unwanted long-term parkers away. Separate tariffs apply to events in Letzigrund.

Public transport

When the shopping center opened, it was relatively poorly served by public transport. In the existing network of Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ), the closest existing stops were in Hohlstrasse on trolleybus line 31 (SBB workshop) and in Badenerstrasse on tram line 2 (Kappeli).

It was not until the beginning of the 1990s that the Letzipark bus stop (since the end of 2007 Letzipark West ) was created on Baslerstrasse, near the main entrance , with the start of operation of the 89 bus line aimed at the Letzipark and Brunaupark shopping centers . There was also the new Letzibeck stop ( Letzipark since the end of 2007 ) on trolleybus route 31 in Hohlstrasse; Access to the shopping center is through a side entrance that leads directly to the Manor department store.

Web links

Commons : Letzipark  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Letzipark shopping center

Individual evidence

1. ^ Solothurner Zeitung: The shopping center wave has reached Basel , August 22, 2009

Coordinates: 47 ° 23 ′ 11 "  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 58"  E ; CH1903:  680099  /  248937