Demolition of former old people's home about to start

After a two-year delay, work has now started on the site of the former Waldheim old people’s home to make way for a new development.

The project to build 48 old people’s flats for rent by the Zug Old People’s Centres and the Zug Citizens' Community (BGZ) was delayed for 24 months as a result of objections raised. Now these have all been settled, work can start at last.

As can be seen in the second photograph, one six-storey building, designed by the will be built alongside one of seven storeys, according to plans of the Axess Architekten AG firm of Zug. While the ground floor will be for general use, the upper floors will be made up of two and three-room flats, 48 of them in all. Residents will also be able to benefit from cleaning, laundry and meal services, if they so wish, in addition to visits by the Spitex homecare organisation.

Regular readers will know that the premises have been used as accommodation for under-age asylum-seekers, though it was known from the outset that this would be for a temporary period only.

Locals will have noticed bulldozers have been brought on to the site, the geology of the site presenting a number of challenges, with demolition to follow shortly. Construction is expected to take two and a half years, the new resident able to move in only in spring of 2021.

Hans Christen, the chairman of the Zug Old People’s Centres’ Foundation, said he was delighted that work had now started on this development for members of the older generation, as did Rainer Hager of the BGZ.

Apparently, expressions of interest had already come from forty people. Unfortunately, the price of the development has risen by some CHF 300,000 since it was originally costed.