The four-star project on the Main should actually start this year. That’s what investor Wolfgang Rosentritt had announced. Now he explains why nothing will come of it.
Photo: Rosentritt residential building
The dream of a hotel complex on the Main has been around in Kitzingen for a long time. The then mayor Erwin Rumpel (CSU) dreamed it back in the 1990s. Then came a massive flood and a protest storm in the town hall and washed away the bold vision of the town hall, hotel and marina on the property between Mainbernheimer Strasse and Bundesstrasse 8. This time the plans are more specific. The hotel project that the investor Wolfgang Rosentritt (Würzburg) is planning on Mainkai in Schrannenstrasse is well advanced. Speaking to this editorial team last October, Rosentritt said: “We are close to the gate.”
A lot has happened in the meantime. The civic center has been closed by the city with violent protests from its tenants, the city council has waved through the hotel plans by a large majority and signaled that it considers them to be good and important for reasons of urban development, and the corona crisis hit the world in March brought the brink of standstill. Wolfgang Rosentritt also felt the impact of the pandemic. She thwarted his plans and threw them back weeks, if not months.
In addition, the purchase agreement with the city on the grounds of the civic center has not yet been signed. This recently led to speculation that Rosentritt is currently not very interested in realizing the project. In a conversation with the editorial team, he now says very clearly: “It may be that the schedule is delayed a bit. But nothing has changed in the fundamental considerations. “
Photo: Rosentritt residential building
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According to Rosentritt, the purchase contract is “ready for negotiation” and should be signed when the building permit submitted by him is available. “The contract,” he says, “does not run away from me.” What is more important is what is happening in the hard-hit hotel market after three months of crisis. The industry is “somewhat paralyzed” and therefore it takes “more time to get things rolling as expected”, explains Rosentritt. This has no effect on his agreement with the future hotel operator. Rosentritt has always emphasized that he only assumed the six-digit planning costs of the planned four-star hotel because there was an operator. He wants to name the name in due course.
Investor Rosentritt needs to adjust his schedules
Now the investor has to revise his schedules. Last autumn he announced that he wanted to start the project later this year. The start of construction could now be postponed to spring 2021. So far there is only one building application. Once this has been approved, Rosentritt wants to start planning the work, which involves the detailed construction. After that, tenders must be placed and craftsmen commissioned.
According to Rosentritt’s experience, all of this takes “easily six months”. Then it would be winter and not a good time to tear open roofs and work on listed houses. Despite some surprises that he expects when renovating and rebuilding the houses in this sensitive area of the city, he expects the construction to take around 18 months. Accordingly, the hotel with its 56 rooms and outdoor dining on the Main could start operating in mid-2022.
Photo: Andreas Brachs
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It remains uncertain how things will continue with the Citizens’ Center (BZ) and the 17 associations and groups under its roof. He “kept out of the sometimes heated discussion as far as possible,” says Rosentritt. The idea of a property or building exchange had never been discussed with him. By the way, it was too late for the exchange of the Haus am Mainkai by BZ board member Renate Fabian for a property in the Schmiedelstrasse acquired by Rosentritt. According to Rosentritt, the plans for converting Schmiedelstrasse into a residential building have gone too far.
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