A superlative future project

The Neugasse area - it corresponds to an area of more than four football fields - wants to be designed by SBB together with the population, politics and administration.

Where the SBB's repair center (Depot G) is located today, a new piece of the city is to be built in the middle of the city in the future. This is done on an area larger than four football fields. Those responsible for the project envision that different offers for living and working as well as spacious public spaces should be created on the Neugasse area for the neighborhood and for the entire city. Also for people who should help shape the space and life there with their ideas. Speaking of co-design: how the Neugasse area will be designed for the future in detail, the SBB will design together with the population, politics and administration.

75 percent of the area is planned for living – a total of 375 apartments. The following distribution is planned:
1/3 non-profit housing construction (building rights to cooperatives)
1/3 limited-price living
(created by SBB)
1/3 living for market rent
(created by SBB)

25 percent of the area is planned for trade, culture and communal or public uses.
10 percent school
(Building rights to the City of Zurich)
15 percent commercial, cultural and communal uses (1/3 of it in building rights for cooperatives). ■

Text: Philipp Dreyer / Quelle: SBB  /  Bilder: zVg