BELVEDERE MAASTRICHT
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 20] The project has been 7 years on the drawing board and now it’s ready for take-off. It completes the city to the north, with its historic industrial quarter, its green heights – once the edge of Maastricht’s fortifications - looking down on the water and the town. There is a park-like area too; tree lined avenues and always the harbor and the waterways - cross-sectioned by buildings old and new. In figures, this means 4,000 housing units with a sale/rental ratio of 70% – 30%; 100,000 m of office space – downtown; 60,000 m of retail floor space - big to small with landscaping; 15 hectares of sustainable production facilities; 30,000 m The major players are linked in a private-public construction, headed the Belvédère District Development Company, with the City of Maastricht, BPF Bouwinvest & ING Real Estate. Then there is the vertical real estate development OCB – The Belvédère Development combine – and BPF Bouwinvest including the RO Group and 3W. At Boschstraat 24 in Maastricht, there is a dedicated information center for the Belvédère project, with a wide range of information available and open to the public from January 8, 2008, Tuesday through Friday from 11.00hrs - 16.00hrs.
Covering almost 700 acres (280 ha), one fifth of the area of the city, the Belvédère project will represent a gross investment figure, approaching EUR 3bn and take a generation (21 years) to complete. Belvédère in Italian literally means beautiful view, but it seems to cover a wide variety of buildings and locations, so that it is an entirely fitting designation for what is to be Maastricht’s biggest ongoing construction project.
for the arts and dining, stopping over, sports, entertainment, education and care and 8,000 parking slots.
Http://www.belvedere-maastricht.nl/