Kasseler Salzmann-Areal is to become a residential area. Over the past decade or so, there have been several unsuccessful attempts to revive the former textile factory. Now urban policy has been presented with a new concept.

Owner Dennis Rossing apparently undertakes a new attempt to reuse the Salzmann site in Kassel. In its most recent session, the city council of Kassel advised on a revised development plan for the 3.7 hectare site in the Bettenhausen district of Sandershäuser Strasse. According to the committee documents, the plans were revised because it is not possible to realize a partial commercial use for which some buildings have already been demolished. Living, care and hotel In the center of the new planning, which runs under the working title Salzmann Höfe, stands a conversion of the listed factory buildings to flats, a care facility and a hotel or boarding house as well as the addition of several new residential buildings on the side of the site facing away from the site. In addition, a seven-storey car park with 700 car parking spaces and possibly a gym on the top level is provided. Space is also to be created for a kindergarten and the cultural initiatives currently located in industrial buildings. According to the development plan, a total of just under 16,000 sqm GFA are planned.

Noise problem eliminated

According to the Hessisch-Niedersächsischen Allgemeine (HNA), Rossing wants to implement the project with the Bad Hersfelder Rosco Group, to whose owners he belongs. For this purpose, more donors should come. The Rosco Group did not react to a request from Immobilien Zeitung. Rossing was the driving force for residential use in 2015 at the last attempt, but failed due to the withdrawal of partner BHB Bauwert. According to the newspaper report, the city of Kassel demands a quota of 25% social housing on the site. With a quick agreement on an urban development contract, a start of construction is already possible at the beginning of 2019. The conflict over possible noise pollution by the surrounding business enterprises, on which the project had failed in 2015, is considered solved according to HNA.

Source: Immobilien-Zeitung, 22.10.2018, JBG Research.