immo!nvest – Die Plattform für Standorte und Immobilien

Tag: Standortqualität

  • Standortförderung Dietikon legt Zwischenbericht vor

    Standortförderung Dietikon legt Zwischenbericht vor

    Die Standortförderung Dietikon hat ihren Zwischenbericht für die Zeit von Mai bis Oktober vorgelegt. Die Auswirkungen und Beschränkungen aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie machten sich deutlich bemerkbar. So zwang diese Situation die Gemeindeführungsorganisation GFO der Stadt Dietikon laut dem Bericht dazu, den Herbst- und Weihnachtsmarkt mitsamt dem Chlauseinzug abzusagen. Die Standortförderung habe allerdings die Einschränkungen als Chance gesehen und die frei gewordene Kapazität dazu genutzt, verschiedene Initiativen zur Stärkung des Zentrums und des lokalen Gewerbes ins Leben zu rufen.

    So lancierte die Stadt Anfang Oktober eine Testimonial-Kampagne mit 19 Dietiker Persönlichkeiten. Die drei Staffeln der Imagekampagne dauern bis Herbst 2021. Der Imageförderung dient auch eine 40-seitige Broschüre über Dietikon, die  an Schulen, Neuzuzügerfeiern, zur Personalrekrutierung sowie für die Ansiedlung von Unternehmen und Arbeitskräften eingesetzt werden soll. Sie ist gedruckt und online erhältlich.

    Schon im Juli hat sich auf Initiative der Standortförderung das NetzwerkStadt gebildet, das sich für ein attraktives Zentrum und den Einzelhandel einsetzt. Weitergeführt wird auch „Kunst und Kulinarik in leeren Mieträumen“, durch die Mieträume sichtbar gemacht und durch Veranstaltungen belebt werden.

    An weiteren Projekten nennt der Zwischenbericht die Suche nach einem Standort für die Schaffung eines Wirtschaftsclusters und das mit den Elektrizitätswerken des Kantons Zürich (EKZ) durchgeführte Projekt „Smart City im öffentlichen Raum erlebbar machen“. Positiv vermerkt wird, dass trotz der Corona-Beschränkungen seit Mai der im Zentrum stattfindende Frischmarkt wieder geöffnet ist und, dass die Bauarbeiten der Limmattalbahn nach Plan verlaufen. Eine anlässlich des Herbstmarktes geplante Baustellenbegehung dort allerdings musste wegen Corona abgesagt werden.

  • Bellinzona gets innovative quarters

    Bellinzona gets innovative quarters

    In Bellinzona, a new model district will be built right in the center. From the five proposals submitted, a jury of experts from the city has now decided on the Porta del Ticino (Gateway to Ticino) project. It pays a lot of attention to the topics of sustainability, intergenerationality and slow mobility. In particular, an innovation park is planned there, writes the city in a media release .

    In addition, living space for 2500 people is planned, writes the Ticino newspaper “La Regione”. The urban development project described by the city in its communication as "epochal" and "profound" has now been presented to the public by the partners Bellinzona, SBB and Canton Ticino. All designs are on display in Piazza del Sole until November 7th.

    The project convinced with "its courageous urban development and landscape design approach to leave the central area of the area undeveloped in order to provide the entire population with free green space and to open up the new district as a natural and attractive addition to the city", it says on the part of the city.

    The 120,000 square meter area that is intended for the new quarter is currently still occupied by the historic SBB workshops. Once they have been relocated, they will start operating in Arbedo-Castione in 2026. Then the realization of the model quarter should be tackled. The vision for this should become reality in 20 years at the earliest, reports the online newspaper ticinonews.ch. Further development steps are planned in 30 and 40 years.

    As a video of the development project published on YouTube shows, the district is to be built around the 101-year-old so-called cathedral, the listed heart of the SBB workshops. 500 old and new locomotives are serviced there every year to this day. It is considered to be one of the most important industrial buildings in Ticino.

    This urban development project was developed by a team made up of sa_partners from Zurich, TAM associati from Venice and the Milanese landscape architect Franco Giorgetta.

    Susanne Zenker, member of the management board of SSB Immobilien , reminded “La Regione” that the workshops were “always closed to the outside”. In the future, however, this area will “open up to its population and become an attractive space. With regard to the rapprochement between private and public actors, which is particularly targeted in the technological area, the new area will be “a calling card for the Bellinzona of the future”.

  • Zug is the most attractive canton for companies

    Zug is the most attractive canton for companies

    The major bank Credit Suisse has published its location quality indicator for this year. This measures the attractiveness of the cantons from the point of view of companies. The canton of Zug moved up to first place this year and was able to overtake the canton of Basel-Stadt. Credit Suisse explains this with the reduction in corporate income taxes that came into effect at the beginning of 2020. The effective maximum corporate income tax rate in Zug is now 11.91 percent – in the previous year it was 14.35 percent.

    Behind Zug and Basel-Stadt, the canton of Zurich follows in the ranking, followed by the canton of Geneva, which has moved up ten places. The fifth place is occupied by the canton of Aargau, the sixth by the canton of Schwyz.

    In addition to the tax policy of the cantons, Credit Suisse also includes the availability of highly qualified and skilled workers in its analysis. According to the economists of the big bank, the level of education of the Swiss workforce has risen sharply in recent decades. However, there is a gap between urban and rural areas when it comes to the availability of highly qualified workers. In urban regions as well as in the closer agglomeration areas, over 40 percent of potential employees have a higher education. In the city of Zurich this proportion is even 57 percent.

    Credit Suisse not only scrutinized the cantons, but also economic regions. This is because she is of the opinion that consideration at the canton level falls short of the mark, especially in larger, heterogeneous cantons. According to the results, metropolitan areas such as Zurich, Zug, Basel, Baden and Geneva and their agglomerations are among the most attractive regions for companies.

  • André Ingold is the new president of the airport region

    André Ingold is the new president of the airport region

    180 representatives of members of the business network took part in the eighth general assembly of the FRZ on September 15 in Dübendorf, the FRZ informed in a message . The FRZ currently includes 644 companies, twelve cities and municipalities, and 19 associations and associations from the region. At the end of the 2019 financial year, the business network had just under 640 members.

    At this year's General Assembly, President René Huber resigned from his position, is further explained in the announcement. Huber (SVP), who has been mayor of Kloten since 2006, was “significantly involved in the creation” of the FRZ in 2011, it continues. With his resignation, the outgoing president wants to initiate a "staggered renewal of the management structures" of the business network. In recognition of his services to the FRZ, Huber was appointed the first honorary president of the FRZ by the general assembly.

    The board of the FRZ had proposed the incumbent mayor of Dübendorf, André Ingold (SVP), as the successor to Huber. The participants in the General Assembly unanimously followed this proposal, writes the FRZ. Jan Schibli from the Schibli Group and the mayor of Dietlikon, Edith Zuber (SVP), were also newly elected to the board.

  • The Zurich economic area impresses with its access to talent

    The Zurich economic area impresses with its access to talent

    The Greater Zurich Area offers companies access to a large pool of first-class talent. Sonja Wollkopf Walt, CEO of the location marketing organization Greater Zurich Area ( GZA ), describes this as one of the most important attractions of the location in an interview with The Place Brand Observer ( TPBO ). Switzerland is listed as the world champion for innovation in several rankings. This has also been recognized by companies such as Google, IBM, Disney or Biogen, which have set up their research locations in the greater Zurich area.

    First-class technology, Swiss reliability and stability meet in the Greater Zurich Area, emphasizes Wollkopf Walt in an interview. Especially against the background of global trade conflicts or the corona pandemic, this is an important added value for companies.

    Despite the negative effects of the corona pandemic as a whole, it has also brought about new developments at some companies or accelerated research activities. Wollkopf Walt highlights, for example, HeiQ . The spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ( ETH ) is developing a technology that can protect textiles against viruses. Fabrics treated with the technology can block the corona virus by 99.9 percent.

    The costs in Switzerland are higher than in many European countries. At the same time, however, it is fair to say that the price-performance ratio in the Zurich economic area is good, according to Wollkopf Walt. Workers in Switzerland have one of the highest productivity levels in the world, she adds.

    When it comes to start-ups, the three most important factors that are necessary for a flourishing start-up ecosystem are present in the Greater Zurich Area: talent, capital and customers. Wollkopf Walt also points out that 2019 was a record year for start-up investments. In addition, four start-ups from the Greater Zurich Area have achieved unicorn status – that is, they are valued at more than 1 billion dollars.

  • BaselArea cantons submit a joint economic report

    BaselArea cantons submit a joint economic report

    Successful business needs good framework conditions. This is not only the case at the moment in the three cantons of the BaselArea. “They will continue to develop their strength in the future,” says the media release on the joint report by Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft and the Jura. The report gives an optimistic view of the future of the changes that have also been triggered by the effects of the Corona crisis and lockdown, failure and future redesign of the international division of labor and delivery routes. The regional economy has repeatedly shown in the past that it is able to react to change and develop positively.

    The three cantons have been working closely together on economic policy for years. It was therefore only natural for the governments to prepare a joint economic report. This is now happening for the first time. Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft published the last economic report in 2016.

    On the basis of this analysis, future opportunities and challenges were developed and named. Above all, they want to work together on state innovation funding and location promotion. This means that more can be achieved than with the previous individual activities of each canton.

    The Basel Area Business & Innovation association is at the center of the future coordinated approach. It is already financially supported jointly by the three cantons. With the range of services offered by Basel Area and the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area (SIP), the region wants to create an attractive environment for companies, research and innovation in which research and development, service providers and investors find the prerequisites for international communication and marketing.

    The second additional report analyzes the effects of COVID-19 on the business location Basel-Stadt.