Terminal Tower (Linz)
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| Basic data | |
| Place: | Linz |
| Construction time : | 2006-2008 |
| Opening: | May 26, 2008 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architects : | Holzbauer & Partner |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office building |
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| Height to the top: | 98.5 m |
| Floors : | 24 |
| Floor area : | 35,000 m² |
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| Linz : | 1. ( list ) |
| Austria : | 13. ( list ) |
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| City: | Linz |
| Country: | Austria |
The Terminal Tower is an office building in Linz that was completed in 2008. With a height of 98.5 m, the skyscraper is the second tallest building in the city after the New Cathedral and the tallest skyscraper in Austria outside of Vienna . It is located on the grounds of the Linz main train station .
General
This is a project by the architects Holzbauer & Partner , who emerged as the winners of an architectural competition in spring 2005. Construction work began in March 2006. The official opening took place on May 26, 2008 in the presence of the then Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer .
The building has a gross floor area of 35,000 m² and a net usable area of 29,000 m². The land area is 5,730 m². The building has 24 floors and is equipped with 122 underground parking spaces.
Since May 2008, the Terminal Tower has housed the tax and customs office in Linz (upper floors) as well as the pension insurance company (lower floors).
The construction costs amounted to around 55 million euros and were borne by Real-Treuhand Immobilien, Porr and Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich .
Terminal Tower affair
The Terminal Tower affair is seen as a sideline to the BUWOG affair . The project operators of the Terminal Tower, the Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich and the Porr, tried to win the Finanzlandesdirektion Oberösterreich as tenants. The Austrian Finance Minister at the time, Karl-Heinz Grasser , refused to move the regional financial directorate, however, because of the higher rental costs.
In 2005, Porr's UBM Realitätenentwicklung (UBM) agreed with the lobbyist Walter Meischberger and the PR consultant Peter Hochegger a consultancy fee of 200,000 euros in order to “remove obstacles in connection with an office project developed by Porr in Linz ". Shortly afterwards, Grasser revised his opinion and henceforth spoke in favor of the Terminal Tower as the new location.
On January 28, 2010, on behalf of the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office, house searches were carried out in the Vienna office of the Porr construction company and its real estate subsidiary UBM. On October 12, 2010, the Viennese city newspaper Falter reported on investigations by the public prosecutor's office against the former Porr boss Horst Pöchhacker. At the beginning of October 2011, house searches of Pöchhacker's private and business premises followed.
On July 21, 2016, the public prosecutor's office for business and corruption announced that it would bring charges against Karl-Heinz Grasser , Walter Meischberger , Ernst Plech , Peter Hochegger and twelve other people in the BUWOG and Terminal Tower cases. According to the indictment, the total damage caused amounts to ten million euros, resulting in a sentence of up to ten years in prison.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Buwog affair: House search at the Porr construction group . In: The press . January 28, 2010
- ^ New house searches in the Buwog / Meischberger affair . In: profile . January 28, 2010
- ↑ "Falter": Investigations against Pöchhacker . In: ORF . October 12, 2010
- ^ Raid on the ÖBB President in the Ministry of Transport . In: The Standard . October 6, 2011
- ^ Allegations of corruption: charges against Grasser, Meischberger and 14 other people in Causa Buwog and Linz Terminal Tower. derStandard.at, July 21, 2016, accessed on July 21, 2016 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '24 " N , 14 ° 17' 25.9" E