"Out of service"

Parking at the office tower site is already history

The parking lot in Salzburg's Sterneckstraße was only in operation for a few days.(Bild: Tröster Andreas)

A "Krone" inquiry to the city council set the ball rolling. The city of Salzburg reacted and threatened to close the parking lot of the controversial future high-rise project in Schallmoos. However, the operator beat the city council to it.

"Out of order" - written in black and white, briefly and concisely. These two words are written on a note on the parking ticket machine of the parking area in Salzburg-Schallmoos, which was only recently put into operation - as reported by the "Krone" newspaper. The note was put up by the operator of the private short-term parking lot. Parking there is history again for the time being. The future construction of the office tower on this exact site also remains controversial. The 35-metre-high office tower could even endanger Salzburg's UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Former petrol station demolished
Salzburg City Council took action at the beginning of the week in response to a request from "Krone". The parking lot at the former petrol station in Sterneckstraße lacked a permit from the city. A water permit is required for at least 20 parked cars and a commercial permit for 50 or more. The operator apparently had neither.

A juicy detail: oil and grease separators were expensively removed from the ground when the petrol station was dismantled. They would probably have saved the short-term parking lot.