"Gösser city quarter"

An eyesore instead of a new district

The old Gösser site still resembles an eyesore

(Bild: Elisa Aschbacher)

"Stadtquartier Gösser" project in Spittal has been awaiting submission for years. Construction was scheduled to start in spring 2022, with the first construction phase due to be completed in 2023...

An underground parking garage with 200 parking spaces and 56 outdoor spaces that are accessible to everyone. A supermarket and five stores on the first floor, 30 to 40 apartments and surgeries on the upper floor: this is how the "Stadtquartier Gösser Areal" project was presented in 2021. The start of construction was planned for spring 2022, with the first construction phase due to be completed in 2023.

But now - four years later - the site doesn't look like it has changed at all. The approximately 1.6-hectare site looks more like an overgrown "lost place".

Developer plans to submit project in summer
As the "Krone" has now learned, the project submission has not even been completed yet. "The developer is planning to submit his project this summer. He wants to start work in the fall.

"A few weeks ago, the land surveyor's office merged the plots," says Gerhard Köfer, head of the town of Spittal, hoping "that it will finally work out". This is not the first time that the project, estimated at 30 million euros at the time, has been postponed. The municipality was unable to give the reason for the considerable delay. The client himself also did not want to "comment on this at the moment".