Walther Park (Bolzano)

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Walther Park Bolzano
Basic data
Location: Bolzano
Owner : Signa Holding
Website: waltherpark.com
Transport links
Parking spaces : 750
Technical specifications
Architect : David Chipperfield

The WaltherPark Bolzano Bozen project (originally Bozen Bolzano department store ) is an urban renewal project in Bozen , the capital of South Tyrol , which provides for the redesign and significant upgrading of the district between the train station, Verdi and Waltherplatz . The project by star architect David Chipperfield is compatible with the urban development master plan for Bolzano as well as the considerations for the development of the station area. Construction is scheduled to start in summer 2018, and construction work will take around three and a half years.

General

At the beginning of 2017, the Bolzano administrative court rejected three appeals against the WaltherPark project. After approval by the population in the referendum on the project from March 29 to April 4, 2016 and the public administration in the previous year, the court finally cleared the way for the implementation of the project.

The Signa Holding of the Tyrolean entrepreneur René Benko is behind the project . The WaltherPark Bolzano Bozen will offer space for offices, retail and apartments, accommodate a high-quality hotel and include generally accessible green areas. The area extends within the street triangle Garibaldistraße - Südtiroler Straße - Bahnhofsallee. The entire site, which originally belonged to the municipality of Bolzano, was acquired by SIGNA Holding for a value of EUR 99.1 million after appeals from project opponents or competitors were rejected in court.

timeline

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  • November 18, 2013: Innsbruck-based Signa Holding deposited the project proposal "Kaufhaus Bozen Bolzano" with the municipality of Bolzano as a "plan for urban restructuring" through its Bolzano company Kaufhaus Bozen GmbH and opened a showroom to inform the population in downtown Bolzano.
  • June 25, 2014: The competition for the requalification of the district at Bolzano train station is announced by the Bolzano city government.
  • October 31, 2014: The service conference - high-ranking experts from the municipality and the state administration - declare the “Bolzano department store” the winner of the competition. The other project “Adventure House” around entrepreneur Georg Oberrauch is excluded due to quality defects; the group around entrepreneur Georg Oberrauch submits first appeals.
  • Spring / Summer 2015: The programmatic agreement is drawn up and the population is informed in numerous citizens' assemblies. On July 23, 2015, 22 municipal councilors vote for the project, 19 against, and three white ballot papers are rated as “No”.
  • Autumn 2015: Mayor Spagnolli convenes the service conference again and instructs it to rework the programmatic agreement with a few changes. At the end of the year, the new version will be handed over to the provisional administrator Michele Penta, who will head the Bolzano administration after Spagnolli's resignation.
  • March / April 2016: Commissioner Penta asks the population whether they agree to the requalification project. Around two thirds are in favor. The programmatic agreement is then signed and ratified.
  • January 2017: The appeals against the requalification project are rejected in favor of Kaufhaus Bozen GmbH. The court has now cleared the way for the implementation of the project.
  • April 2017: KBH GmbH was awarded the contract to build the Bolzano bus station. Kaufhaus Bozen GmbH bought the area near the center at an auction price of 99.1 million euros.
  • January 2018: Signa Holding signs the preliminary purchase agreement for the buildings and land on which the construction project and department store will be built.
  • Construction work for WaltherPark will begin in summer 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The start of construction for the Benko department store is getting closer to January 30th, 2018
  2. ↑ The jury of the city of Bolzano gave Benko's department store project top marks in the Tiroler Tageszeitung on October 31, 2014
  3. ↑ Bolzano: Benko at department store project initially failed Die Presse on July 24, 2015