The Marker, Gili Melnicki, 25.02.2020
The Tel Aviv District Planning and Building Committee, headed by architect Daniela Posk, has decided to commission an evacuation-construction plan in the Ramat Hanassi neighborhood of Bat Yam. The plan includes 964 housing units to be built in four 37-25-storey towers along 29th Street in November and six ten-story residential buildings along Rabbi Nissim Yitzhak Street. The towers will replace eight residential buildings with 224 housing units.
In recent years, Bat Yam has become one of the leading cities in height (of towers 21 stories or more). Thus, in 2019, more than 65% of the city's construction starts were high-rise, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
The new plan, initiated by the Coral Group and conducted by architect Ilan Pivko, also includes a 5,550 sq.m. allocation for trade and employment, 5 acres for public buildings and 600 sq.m. for open space. It is spread over 21 dunams of area on November 29th to the north, Nylon Ayalon to the east, Rabbi Nissim Yitzhak to the south and existing construction to the west.
Among the neighbors of the new tower neighborhood will be members of the Abbot Hasidic community, whose meeting is to the west of the planned complex. It is a closed ultra-Orthodox community whose leader - Rabbi Admor of Babov - is currently visiting Israel and is hosted in Bat Yam.
According to the plan deposited, 194 housing units will be allocated for small apartments (55 square meters); the pair of western towers in the 37-storey complex includes a commercial floor with a front facing 29th Street in November and housing above it; The pair of western towers in the complex includes a commercial floor and another four floors of employment and above them residential; And a 5-acre public building can be used for elementary school, education, religion, culture, sports, community and welfare and municipal institutions. In total, the program includes 5,550 square meters for commercial and employment uses that will enable neighborhood commerce and local employment solutions.
Tel Aviv District Planner Eve Erlich-Roginsky noted, "There was a deep planning mindset here that incorporated a condominium response plan, addressing public space, and allocating space to a large public building without forgetting that the project needed to be applicable or waiving public needs."
Deputy CEO of the Almog Group, Amir Heller, said: "We are pleased with the discussion. This is definitely a significant landmark in the way for the construction of the project and for a large number of apartment owners and residents."