Shoppi Tivoli

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Shoppi Tivoli Spreitenbach
Basic data
Location: Spreitenbach , Switzerland Shopping Center 8957 SpreitenbachSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Opening: 1970 (Shoppi)
1974 (Tivoli)
Total area: 151,600 m²
Sales area : 78,376 m²
Shops: over 150
Visitors: approx. 4.5 million annually
Turnover : CHF 403 million (2018)
Owner : Shoppi and CenterMall
Credit Suisse REF Interswiss
Operator: Shoppi Tivoli Management AG
Website: www.shoppitivoli.ch
Transport links
Railway station: Killwangen-Spreitenbach
Bus stop: Shopping center
S-Bahn : S 11 S 12 SN1
Tram : from 2022 Limmattalbahn
Omnibus : 4 303
Motorways : Motorway A1 Motorway A3A1
A3
Other: Hauptstrasse 3 H3
Parking spaces : 4200 (chargeable)

The Shoppi Tivoli Spreitenbach emerged from the largest shopping center in Switzerland in terms of area. It was opened on March 12, 1970 and is located in Spreitenbach in the Limmat Valley , about 8 kilometers west of the outskirts of Zurich . In 2010 it was thoroughly renewed and repositioned.

Planning / history

Three weeks after the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Rüschlikon had publicly debated “shopping centers” in June 1957 , the topic had arrived in Spreitenbach's local planning. The planner Klaus Scheifele suggested that a shop center be located in the planned community zone, which would go beyond the daily fresh produce requirement. The Spreitenbach zone planning, approved in 1960, already provided for a shopping center at the site.

In parallel to the construction of the Swiss motorway network, large shopping centers were built at its junctions. The Glatt shopping center was one of those shopping centers that was planned at the same time as the Shoppi. Its completion was delayed due to the complex traffic situation and the motorway construction and could only be opened five years after the Shoppi.

They changed the Swiss retail trade permanently because they removed the distance protection of traditional commercial sales outlets. As early as 1967 the system of fixed retail prices for food and beverages (“price fixing for the second hand”) had fallen. This created the prerequisites for fierce price competition.

On August 27, 1962, the representatives of the Zurich company Agemit presented to the municipal council and presented their plans for a “regional shopping center with entertainment and cultural center”. Approval for a later closing time in the evening - 9 p.m. in summer and 8 p.m. in winter - was requested. This extension of opening times was approved on February 18, 1963. Because the planned building plot extended over several zones of the 1960 building code, a new sub-zone plan and a structure plan were necessary. This delayed the start of construction. On August 17, 1965, the community assembly approved the special building regulations required for the construction with a single vote against. The actual construction began in July 1967. At the laying of the foundation stone on October 11, 1967, the mayor Robert Locher said: «... That this large development was not forced on us, but that this complex corresponds to the clear ideas of our planning experts and the political authorities ... »clear that this project was supported by the community. Which was also true, because the community authorities did not oppose themselves, but rather tried to get concessions for the community. For example, the indoor swimming pool had to be built at the client's expense. The structure plan, adjusted in autumn 1967, provided for four high-rise buildings around the Shoppi, but only two of them were built. The first 17-storey high-rise building was also the reason why the opening, initially planned for autumn 1969, had to be postponed to spring 1970, as time-consuming pile foundations were necessary due to the poor building site .

The shopping center in Spreitenbach was one of the first in Switzerland to be perceived by the public at the time as a sight and a cultural phenomenon. The architect and planner Victor Gruen , who emigrated from Austria to the USA, defined the cornerstones of the shopping center system in his visionary publications and lectures and designed the SC Spreitenbach as an architect: a unit of living, working, shopping and leisure activities; thus avoidance of commuter routes; Combination of commercial and public use; Unbundling of car, rail and pedestrian traffic on different levels. Based on the English traffic planner Colin Buchanan, he placed the traffic level for pedestrians on top of the level for the cars and thus separated them. The shopping center followed the classic shopping center concept at least to some extent: with a central promenade, with supermarkets from the major distributors Migros , Vilan and Denner as customer magnets and with fifty-two specialty shops lined up.

The entirety of the uses in Spreitenbach - residential high-rise buildings, congress rooms, indoor swimming pool, sports facilities - should form the right framework for shopping as a family experience. The experience character was reinforced with attractions and exhibitions. Initially, the crowds in Spreitenbach thronged to stroll past the shop windows, even on Sundays when the shops were closed. Seven restaurants, eight bowling alleys and a fitness club underlined the shopping center's claim to be a holistic leisure and entertainment platform for urban, modern people.

It is worth mentioning that at the time of the opening of the Shoppi and the start of construction of the Tivoli, not only the expansion of the existing highway (main road No. 3) into a separate expressway from the canton was planned, but also the possibility of one between the two buildings on the highway Terminus of the extended Kloten-Dietikon line of the Zurich U-Bahn was up for discussion.

Development and construction

The first promoter of Spreitenbach was the Swiss retail pioneer Karl Schweri , who from 1962 built up the first discount chain in Switzerland under the Denner brand. Schweri employed the young lawyer Jacques Müller (who later became the founder and head of the Intershop group). He had founded several real estate funds (Interswiss, Interglobe) and sent Müller to France and the USA to study the new way of selling shopping centers and to buy retail properties for the funds. The investment fund law that came into force in 1966 spoiled Schweri's business before the plans in Spreitenbach could take concrete shape. Under pressure from the big banks, an obligation to take back fund units was built into the law, which increased Schweri's risk and ultimately forced him to sell his funds to the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt and the Swiss Bank Corporation. In this way, the big banks, under the leadership of what was then SKA (now Credit Suisse), took on the Spreitenbach project.

Ten years after it opened, the Spreitenbach shopping center reported 6.8 million visitors per year and sales of 190 million francs; the annual growth rates fluctuated regularly around five percent. Meanwhile, numerous other shopping centers had sprung up.

Construction of the Tivoli

TivoliMall - Shoppi Tivoli.jpg

In 1974, Dalbar AG, a company owned by the building contractor Hans Heinrich Rinderknecht, opened the "Tivoli" center on the other side of the cantonal road in Spreitenbach, which was initially planned as a commercial and industrial center and became a direct competitor of the shopping center during the planning phase . After the oil shock of 1973/74 and the first serious economic downturn, Tivoli’s sponsorship was suspended. Under the leadership of Migros , the facility was taken care of by a community of condominiums. The different interests of the owners did not make the necessary ongoing renovations easier, so that over the years there was a serious backlog in maintenance and investments.

Merger and Renewal

In 2001 the two fierce competitors Shopping Center Spreitenbach and Tivoli merged to form a joint operating company (Shoppi Tivoli Management AG), which tackled the fundamental renovation of the two centers based on a jointly developed master plan. The driving force was the A&A Liegenschaften group, which came from the environment of the banker and entrepreneur Ernst Müller-Möhl (died 2000) and was headed by Thomas Kurer and Cornel Schmid. A&A Liegenschaften came to Tivoli because it had been commissioned by the banks to restructure the real estate part of Möbel Märki AG.

As a result, the number of condominium owners in Tivoli was reduced from 34 to ten. The children's paradise was created in 2006 as the first sign of community. From 2008 to 2010, a thorough renovation of the Tivoli was implemented as well as a new bridge connection, which was given the shape of a CenterMall with 27 new shops and an additional sales area of ​​around 3000 m². Finally, the total renovation of the Tivoli with an investment volume of around CHF 280 million was decided. In addition, around CHF 110 million was invested in the changes of hands that served to clear up the ownership structure. The plans for the conversion come from the internationally renowned architect Matteo Thun . In autumn 2010 the new SHOPPI TIVOLI was opened.

facts and figures

On a total area of ​​151,600 square meters, more than 150 shops and services occupy a total of 78,000 m² of retail space. Over 1,500 people are employed in the shopping building. Every year around 4.6 million visitors visit the department store and generate sales of CHF 403 million. 4200 parking spaces are available. From 2022, the Limmattalbahn will provide a stronger connection to the public transport system in the greater Zurich area.

literature

  • Roman W. Brüschweiler, Anton Kottmann, Andreas Steigmeier; Spreitenbach , published in 2000 by the local community of Spreitenbach, ISBN 3-85545-853-7 ; Chapter by Andreas Steigmeier Shopping boom: Spreitenbach between 1950 and 2000 pages 261–334

Web links

Commons : Shoppi Tivoli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Roman W. Brüschweiler, Anton Kottmann, Andreas Steigmeier Spreitenbach , published in 2000 by the local citizen community Spreitenbach, ISBN 3-85545-853-7 , page 286
  2. ^ Roman W. Brüschweiler, Anton Kottmann, Andreas Steigmeier Spreitenbach , published in 2000 by the local citizen community Spreitenbach, ISBN 3-85545-853-7 , pages 286-87
  3. ↑ a b c Roman W. Brüschweiler, Anton Kottmann, Andreas Steigmeier Spreitenbach , published in 2000 by the local citizen community Spreitenbach, ISBN 3-85545-853-7 , page 291
  4. ^ Roman W. Brüschweiler, Anton Kottmann, Andreas Steigmeier Spreitenbach , published in 2000 by the local citizen community Spreitenbach, ISBN 3-85545-853-7 , page 292
  5. ^ Roman W. Brüschweiler, Anton Kottmann, Andreas Steigmeier Spreitenbach , published in 2000 by the local citizen community Spreitenbach, ISBN 3-85545-853-7 , page 296

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '20.5 "  N , 8 ° 22' 10.2"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred seventy thousand two hundred and forty-one  /  252810