Seoul City Approves Revised District Unit Plan Decision... Construction to Start in Second Half of Year
Location map of the former Seongdong Detention Center in Garak-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul. (Provided by Seoul City)
[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyemin] A housing complex of about 1,300 units, including a Newlywed Hope Town, will be built on the site of the former Seongdong Detention Center in Songpa-gu, Seoul.
On the 24th, Seoul City held the 5th Urban and Architectural Joint Committee meeting and announced on the 25th that it had approved a revised district unit plan for the former Seongdong Detention Center site at 162 Garak-dong.
The former Seongdong Detention Center site (78,758㎡), located near Ogeum Station, was used as a correctional facility from 1977 until June 2017. The facility was relocated to the Munjeong Legal Complex and is now called Seoul Eastern Detention Center. The remaining site has been managed by Seoul Housing and Communities Corporation (SH) since March 2018. This district unit plan was prepared through prior negotiations between Seoul City and SH Corporation.
The former Seongdong Detention Center site will be developed into three zones: residential, business, and public land. First, as part of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s ‘Expansion of Housing Supply in the Metropolitan Area’ policy in September 2018, a Newlywed Hope Town will be constructed. The Newlywed Hope Town will consist of two complexes with up to 26 floors, providing 700 housing units. Additionally, 600 units of apartment housing with up to 28 floors will be built.
In the station area adjacent to Ogeum Station on subway lines 3 and 5, a 13-story complex business and startup space will be created. On the public land secured through public contributions, approximately 288 billion KRW from public contribution funds generated by the development project will be used to plan cultural, sports, and youth facilities accessible to local residents. The specific plans for the facilities, uses, and scale of the public land will be finalized by the end of this year.
Seoul City plans to demolish existing facilities in the first half of the year and begin construction in the second half, starting with the Newlywed Hope Town, which is currently in the basic design phase. Lee Sang-myeon, Acting Director of the Public Development Planning Division, said, "We will shed the closed-off image that has remained as an undesirable facility for the past 40 years and caused regional stagnation, and breathe new vitality into the area."
© The Asia Business Daily(www.asiae.co.kr). All rights reserved.
