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Sulzer Redevelopment
Description
- Project type: Mixed use redevelopment of a former industrial site into mixed use urban areas. Uses include flats, service industries, light industrial, shopping, leisure and educational facilities (including higher education). A large proportion of the existing building stock will be maintained and converted.
- Postcode: 8401 Winterthur
- Location type: Centrally located former industrial site (industrial use from 1843 to 1989)
- Number of dwellings: Currently 347 flats completed, 300 under construction; almost exclusively free market rental dwellings, apart from 22 owner-occupied flats ("Lofts G48")
- Overall site area: 20 hectares
- Mix of use: 34% service and light industrial; 32.5% housing; 9% leisure; 22% education; 2.5% retail
- Overall parking density: approximately 1 parking space per housing / work unit. There a few visitor parking spaces along the streets and three additional multi-storey car parks in the immediate vicinity of the development. The former industrial building next to Katharina Sulzer Platz is temporarily used as a car park.
Details of dwelling types
- "Kranbahn": 1421 sq.m. of light industrial space; 99 newly constructed rental flats ranging from 2.5 rooms to 5.5 rooms on one or two levels; 20 lofts and work-live-units; flat sizes range from 85 sq.m. to 220 sq.m.; ca. 200 bed spaces; monthly rent between 1420 sFr – 3300 sFr including bills; 121 parking spaces in underground car park (1 per unit); Site area 4532 sq.m. (approximately 262 units per hectare); Floorplans: www.kranbahn.ch
- "Lokomotive": 117 new rental flats ranging from 2.5 to 6.5 rooms on one or two levels and 3 live-work-units. Mix of new construction and re-use / reconstruction of a former industrial hall; Flat sizes range from 57 to 158 sq.m.; some flats benefit from gardens and roof terraces; Monthly rent 17,50 sFr/sq.m excluding bills; ca. 444 bed spaces; Site area 8611 sq.m. (150 units per hectare); 107 parking spaces in underground car park (0,9 per unit) for rent (135 sFr/month), 13 parking spaces for visitor on site. Building costs 2690 sFr/sq.m.; 358.333 sFr/unit; floorplans: www.lokomotive-winterthur.ch
- "Loft G 48": 22 owner-occupied live-work-units; Sizes range from 100 to 200 sq.m.; Prices range from 460000 to 850000 sFr (appr. £190,000 to 360,000; £2000/sq.m.)
- Sieb 10: 106 new rental flats ranging from 2.5 to 5.5 rooms on one or two levels and 12 live-work-units; Flat sizes range from 56 to 141 sq.m.; some flats benefit from gardens and roof terraces; monthly rent 19,2 sFr/qm; Site area 4422 sq.m. (239 units per hectare); GRZ: 0,72 / GFZ 4,12; 1 parking space per unit in underground car park (monthly rent 170 sFr) building costs approximately 1611 sFr/sq.m. Further projects currently under planning: 60 flats, schedule uncertain
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