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The Bauverein, the housing construction company of the city of Darmstadt, wants to erect six buildings with 560 apartments, a parking garage and commercial space on the measuring site.
Dull, dusty and bare – this is how the measuring station in the north of Darmstadt’s city center has been presented for years. That is expected to change from 2022. A new residential area with 560 apartments is to be created where cars, trucks and buses are currently parked and where the Darmstadt spring and autumn masses have been held so far, almost half of them for low-income people and those with middle incomes.
In December 2019, the city council decided with the votes of the Greens, CDU, Uffbasse and the SPD to sell the measuring station to a subsidiary of the municipal Bauverein AG. A daycare center, a parking garage and around 8,000 square meters of commercial space are also to be built on the site.
The city and the municipal real estate company have pushed ahead with the planning for the development in recent months. The building association commissioned the Darmstadt architecture and urban planning office Planquadrat to develop designs for the area.
Building association board member Armin Niedenthal now said that the plan is to create “a green, livable and sustainably planned quarter” from a largely fallow area, which should make an important contribution to “ecologically and economically sustainable urban development”. The resolution of the city council with regard to the climate targets should also be taken into account.
Land acquired by the city
According to a message from the building association, its subsidiary BVD daheim GmbH & Co. KG acquired the property from the city in December 2019. The measuring station, which is bordered by Marburger Strasse in the north, Arheilger Strasse in the east and Alsfelder Strasse in the south, is, in Niedenthal’s assessment, “very well suited for urban residential development” due to its size, location and existing infrastructure. The city and the building association are continuing the strategy of first condensing and building on areas in the city center.
It is planned to set up apartments with a total area of up to 41,800 square meters in the six planned buildings. The creation of housing is particularly important given the ongoing population growth.
According to Niedenthal, a “differentiated housing supply” is to be created that takes into account the city’s resolutions for an adequate supply of housing with 45 percent for low and middle incomes. A mobility concept should also be an important part of the planning.
The building association had already developed a low-car city quarter in the Lincoln estate. The urban planning concept also provides for plenty of green on the area, the building roofs and on the facades.
It is also planned to present the building project to the municipal design advisory board.
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