Image: Municipality of Luftenberg
The production of Wella hair care products offered many people work in Luftenberg for decades. Up to 70 women were employed in the 1970s and 1980s making hairsprays, dyes and setting lotions. The site was shut down in 1993.
Since then, the area has primarily been a residential area due to its attractive location. This use is now to be supplemented by another project. At a well-attended information evening in the Forum Luftenberg, Wohnbau 2000, the owner of the site, and Mayor Hilde Prandner presented a development study by “Team M Architects”. The study provides for residential and commercial space to be built on the former production site. The community generally sees this development of this property very positively, emphasized Mayoress Prandner: “Since this is the last property to be built on in this settlement, we want to give the project a certain central function thanks to its central location.” As can be seen from the plans emerges, an open ground floor area with business and office space is to be combined with apartments and valuable open spaces. “The concept opens up the opportunity for us to think in larger contexts and include the existing housing estates of Luftenberg and Kutzenberg in our use,” said Mayor Prandner. The municipality also attaches great importance to a good mix of affordable rental and owner-occupied apartments.
In order to do justice to this claim and also to allow social, economic and ecological aspects to flow into the planning, there have already been a number of meetings in the spatial planning committee, which were also attended by local planner architect Gerald Steiner, Wohnbau 2000 director Jörg Rigger and architect Wolfgang Steinlechner from TEAM M participated. In this well-rehearsed round, the project is now to be further developed.
Source: Nachrichten