Prime location in the city

Up to 200 apartments could be built here

The first plans for residential buildings on Michael-Pacher-Strasse were already being considered three years ago.

(Bild: Tröster Andreas)

The official building in Michael-Pacher-Straße in the south of Salzburg is to make way for subsidized rental housing. The city would like to have a say in the specifications for potential buyers.

One of the prime properties owned by the state of Salzburg is soon to be turned into money. The large office building at Michael-Pacher-Straße 36 near Alpenstraße in the south of the city will become redundant. The state employees currently working there are to move to the new state service center at the main train station in 2027.

Basically, it has already been decided what will happen on the 8520 square meter site. As reported by the "Krone" three years ago, subsidized rental apartments are to be built on the site. Andrea Klambauer (Neos), the provincial housing councillor at the time, could imagine up to 200 units. Nothing has changed in the plans, assures ÖVP party chairman Wolfgang Mayer.

This is what the first plans looked like three years ago.

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The current offices are to be relocated to the new state service center at the main train station in 2027.

(Bild: ZOOMVP.AT Architekturbüro Burtscher-Durig)

 "That is in the current coalition agreement and there are three resolutions in the state parliament on this," he explains. The sales documents are currently being prepared for a bidding process.

State government has already had the value estimated
"The state government can't simply sell the building either, it needs a resolution in the state parliament for that," Mayer clarifies. This should be passed in the fall. The sale should then take place in the middle of next year. The handover to the buyer is then planned for mid-2027 if the state service center is completed on time. The state has already had the value of the property assessed. An expert came up with a figure of between 4 and just under 18 million euros, depending on the conditions of the sale. However, given the restriction to subsidized rental housing, the upper end of the estimate will probably not be reached. It is to be expected that only non-profit developers will be interested in buying due to the requirements. These are urgently looking for suitable sites in the city anyway.

The city would also like to have a say in the plans. "I have approached the provincial governor with a request to develop the site together," says Mayor Bernhard Auinger (SPÖ). The city has a certain say anyway. A denser development, which would probably be necessary for 200 apartments, must be approved by the municipal council with a new development plan. The aim is to act together with the state. "We have a very good basis for discussion," says Auinger.