Even the most important main streets have no bike lanes here, only a few facades and roofs are green, and there is a lack of 10,000 square meters of play areas for romping around. And space for 900 new apartments has not yet been exhausted. Now the Senate and district want to heal the Gesundbrunnen district, so to speak.
Around 80 million euros in funding are available for the 56 hectares between Badstrasse and Nettelbeckplatz. Plus extra money for a new community school (Pankstraße 70), the redesign of streets and the kissing awake of the Wiesenburg area on the Panke for culture. Every fourth building is in need of renovation – the owners have to pay here.
“Many situations are in need of improvement,” says city councilor Ephraim Gothe (57, SPD).
► Example elevated road 4: In the “mobile home oasis” there are lots of caravans parked in a top location. “There is potential for housing here. We are in contact with the owners.”
► Or just around the corner: A hidden path with commercial space including many car workshops. A green corridor is to be created here on the historic route of the Szczecin Railway.
Anna Wasilevski (36) is particularly pleased about this. For a year now, on Fridays from 5 p.m., she’s been drumming up neighbors to collect rubbish: “What’s the use of a green space if everything is full of rubbish.”
► Pankstrasse is to be redivided: only one car lane, one bus lane and, for the first time, a cycle path that has been cleared of bollards.
When the car noise gets quieter and the air gets better, more playgrounds and the new sports equipment for seniors, which are to be set up near the fountain square at the imposing district court, also make sense.
By the way, Tempo 30 should apply in the whole area.
