Overview
- The Bavarian cabinet approved on August 14 to sell the old Strafjustizzentrum after its courts move to the new Leonrodplatz facility next year.
- Building minister Christian Bernreiter argued that investing state funds in other locations can deliver more affordable homes than converting the existing complex.
- The government has begun talks with the City of Munich to secure non-luxury housing conditions in the sale contract without directly funding redevelopment.
- Private investors and developers will determine the final use of the 17,500 m² site under zoning and municipal planning rules, with pure luxury apartments explicitly ruled out.
- The architects and climate advocates behind the Abbrechen abbrechen initiative are pushing to preserve and adapt the structure to avoid demolition emissions and create a low-commercial civic space.