Tag: Geroldswil

  • Landis AG is a new shareholder in Limmatstadt

    Landis AG is a new shareholder in Limmatstadt

    Landis AG is now involved as a shareholder in the Limmatstadt AG location promotion. The company describes itself on its website as an innovative planning and engineering office with its headquarters in Geroldswil and branch offices in Brüttisellen in the Glattal and in St.Gallen. The offer to customers ranges from infrastructure construction and real estate development, building law and spatial development to municipal engineering.

    On the site promotion website , Managing Director Thomas Brocker is quoted as having a clear regional commitment: “Landis AG is proud to be part of an informal network of partner companies like Limmatstadt AG.” Landis AG wants its customers to be “successful and cooperative The motto of the company, which was founded in 1961 as “Bauingenieurunternehmung Hans Landis AG”, is “Competence through experience and commitment”, Brocker is quoted as saying.

    The company portrait on the website shows how the company has grown since it was founded by Hans Landis in 1961 to become today’s planning and engineering office with around 30 specialists in the various areas of the services offered. Felix Stephan took over Landis AG from Jürg Marti in January 2006 and at the same time became managing director. In April 2009, the engineering company Geser Partner Bauingenieure AG in Wangen-Brüttisellen, which operates in the same segment, was taken over as a 100 percent subsidiary and finally merged into Landis AG in July 2014.

    On April 1, 2019, the then head of the real estate development department, Thomas Brocker, together with the previous management, took over the fortunes of the company, according to the Landis AG website. In October 2020, Landis AG moved to larger premises on Steinhaldenstrasse in Geroldswil.

  • The hotel construction site in Geroldswil has been secured

    The hotel construction site in Geroldswil has been secured

    With more than 60 percent, the Geroldswilers approved an additional loan of 650,000 francs, which increases the project planning loan, which was too tight in 2017, to around 2.6 million francs. This means that work on the project can continue. A center development with a lower level garage, a major distributor in the basement and apartments on the upper floors are to be created. According to a media release by the municipality of Geroldswil , 872 voters voted for the approval of the additional funds. In contrast, there were 559 no votes with a participation of 50.45 percent.

    The leases for the Hotel Geroldswil and the pizzeria on Dorfplatz are limited in time and will expire on December 31, 2021, the municipality announced when the project was presented . Based on an economic and feasibility study, the two floors with the hotel rooms are to be converted into apartments. As a supplement, a new building with family apartments is to be built as a so-called point building in the north-western part of the property. The current community hall is to be demolished and a new, modern and well-equipped community hall will be implemented as a connecting wing between the current Hotel Geroldswil and the apartment building. There should be space for one or two restaurants on the village square, it said.

    The independent mayor Michael Deplazes is quoted in an article in the “Limmattaler Zeitung”: “The voters recognize the necessity of the project and understand why we are investing in age-appropriate apartments and in new buildings.” According to Deplazes, the planners and architects can now do their work again record: "We put a project freeze until the additional loan was approved because we cannot spend money that we don't even have."

    The next ballot will take place on June 13, 2021. Then the people should decide on the building loan. "We expect an estimated 26 million francs," said Deplazes.