In Haifa, there are several buildings that stand ruined and neglected, in central places throughout the city. It will be enough to mention the ugly building of the casino at the entrance to the Bat Galim promenade to understand what it is about. Will one day there come (or come) a mayor who will renovate the buildings that are currently mostly in private hands? Only days will tell...
Every Haifai knows that in Haifa there are several buildings that are "white elephants" that have been neglected, burned or empty, for decades, and despite the enormous potential that lies in them, it seems that they will continue to remain abandoned and abandoned in the decades to come.
In an interview with Hai Fe reporter, the deputy mayor of Haifa's Green faction, Avihu Han, reviews some of the buildings located in various centers around the city and suffering from deplorable neglect. He also has a solution to the problem - a strong mayor who will find a way to turn the properties, which are currently in private hands, into municipal properties and renovate them.
The casino in the Bat Galim neighborhood
the casino It is a building from the 30s of the last century. He is at the entrance to the Bat Galim promenade and hides it. Today the casino is in private hands and the developer, for his own reasons, decided to leave the skeleton of the ugly building as it is, despite the central location and the tremendous potential inherent in it. Over the years, there have been many proposals regarding the use and training of the unique building: to open a large community center, a museum with the history of the Bat Galim neighborhood, a small hotel with rooms on the water, a restaurant, and more, but one person who purchased the building stops the advancement of each of the plans. The casino was at the heart of a legal debate, the owner of the property claimed that it was possible to make a TAMA and thus benefit from budgeting. The court ruled that because the building was renovated in the 90s, it is not entitled to TMA (TMA can only be done in buildings built before 1980). The owner of the property thought that he would renovate the property on the TMA route with the help of a partial state budget, and when he realized that this was not on the agenda, he simply decided not to touch the property.
Hahn claims that it is impossible for such a structure to stand in such a central place in the city. "If there was a strong mayor here, he would return the building to municipal hands and use it for the benefit of the residents, but there isn't."
Barbarossa Pub, Sderot Pika, Ahuza
Old Haifaites may remember that the location of the pub"Barbarossa" Considered cursed until the opening of Barbarossa. Since the days of "Crips", every pub or cafe that opened there, could not last and was closed. Barbarossa proved that there is no rule and a place that works correctly, succeeds. Every evening you could see under the Horev center at the entrance to Barbarossa a line of people who want to enter, but there is no more room to admit them. The pub was very successful both on weekdays and weekends, not an easy thing with a Haifa crowd. Then one day about 10 years ago there was a fire in the place and since then the building has been burned and abandoned. At first it seemed that in a few days they would renovate and the pub would be back in business, but little by little it became clear that what happened in Barbarossa would not be fixed and for 10 years a burnt building stood on one of the main streets in Haifa and there was nothing to be done.
The reserve on Oren Street in the new Romema neighborhood
A few steps below Barbarossa there used to be a restaurant called "the reserve". The reserve was a pastoral restaurant in the heart of a large grove. On the one hand, it was located almost on one of the busy roads in Haifa, but on the other hand, when you sat inside the restaurant, all you saw was greenery and trees and all you heard was the chirping of the birds. The place has been closed for over a decade. Again, there is not much to do, the place is in private hands and the decision of what to do with it is up to the property owner.
Sir Oliphant's house 16 Ben Gurion Blvd
In 1870 the British Sir Oliphant lived in the house while he was a Member of Parliament. The structure represents love for Israel. Today, the historical building that is so significant, stands almost abandoned and is used as a warehouse for old people's homes, the building is slowly losing its historical value and if no party is established to take it upon itself to preserve it, eventually there will be nothing left to preserve.
Abandoned synagogues throughout Haifa
In Haifa there are dozens of synagogues, in almost every neighborhood of the city. The great majority of them are active and maintained, but there are also many who are standing abandoned and waiting for someone to arise and take them out of their disgrace.
"These buildings, with the intervention of a strong mayor," says Hahn, "can generate tremendous value for foreign and domestic tourism and the preservation of history. This is one of the issues I will address."
For years and years these buildings stand still and forlorn in central locations in the city, reminding everyone who sees them of the severe neglect. Will one day the mayor's office lift the glove and take care of their rehabilitation? time will tell.
Egged building. White elephant.
The public authorities have no money to invest. Individuals do not invest with certainty of income.
... What...Kalish will save ..no ??? ??♀️??♀️??♀️??♀️
Haifa is a city of negative immigration
No entrepreneur wants to incur unnecessary expenses
Real estate prices did not rise nationally,
High property tax
In short, there is nothing to look for there
Look at the Carmel Castle, a city that has made a difference
Already there, the price of real estate overtakes Haifa.
So there is no point in discussing abandoned buildings
Because they will continue to be abandoned
It's very sad. There is also the old office building of the Electric Company at Dolphin Junction. It is possible to change it to apartments or rooms for rent for the poor. Let a brave entrepreneur come and do it.
The cinema building near the Hapoel pool (Gali Hadar)...
In Europe, these buildings bring in tens of thousands of euros to the country from tourists, and I am one of them, stop at these buildings and the guide explains the history of the building for 15 minutes, enter and tour and be impressed from the inside, and here in Israel the officials are simply impervious to history.
The casino structure does not need to be preserved at all.
A. This is not the original building but a copy with a wing that was not there before and also a division in the center into floors that was not there before.
B. With sea level rise this building will suffer from flooding and water damage all the time
third. This area deserves to be developed into another bathing beach for all residents of Haifa and not a private venture that will be enjoyed by a few.
d. The time has come to issue a demolition order for the building and change the zoning of the area to public, to pay the developer for the purchase of the area as a bathing beach area
and partially establish a number of restaurants, the rents from which will finance over the years the purchase of the land into the hands of the public as it did
Tel Aviv with the dolphinarium area. Offer the developer an alternative area or purchase, and open the entire casino area and the lot next to it
God. Haifa residents without a public pool. This is the place to return the pool from the sea water there and also to operate it for a nominal fee for the residents of Haifa and for the payment of an entrance fee for residents from outside.
and. The residents of Haifa demand a marina as in all coastal cities in Israel. The time has come when in front of Rambam, like decades of plans, a marina of several hundred vessels will be built that will turn Haifa into a real sailing and water sports city. This mooring should be established in the area of the parking lot on the coastline in front of Rambam. She will not disturb anyone and the time has come when we will see boat masts and hotels and not a hospital and ambulances on the coastline.
Haifa municipality should take care of abandoned buildings in Haifa. Good night
It is a great shame that mayors do not use their authority to promote not so profitable projects of entrepreneurs and demand illogical conditions for the renovation and use of the buildings, which is why they look like this. the huge investment in preservation. Haifa has been a failed city for many years and it seems due to the unnecessary pride of the heads of the Sheiltum that it has been in decline for a long time and it is a shame...
If they pay, property taxes are increased and on the other hand the town must give discounts to those who want to use the buildings!
Especially at the end of Kibbutz Glioot street!!
Not only the casino building must be preserved, but also the Olympic swimming pool that was there. There were swimming competitions and jumping from 3 stories of jumping jacks. Unfortunately, everything that was in the past in Haifa is being destroyed without reckoning.
A poor populist article with no serious intentions! The timing is not particularly surprising either.
In Haifa there are so many "white elephants" that are privately owned and all of them need to be taken care of without exception. This is how a serious and visionary mayor should have behaved. In my opinion, the right solution is (even if it is legally complicated at first) to give the developer/property owner a significant and timely benefit To increase the percentage of construction \ other compensation or alternatively to nationalize the property \ putting it out for tender in a reasonable period of time and under conditions that would allow its restoration and upgrading. It goes without saying that a simple citizen who did not take care of a dilapidated building would be sued every Monday and Thursday and receive fines until he was convinced.
You forgot the destroyed Tamar Cinema, Ora Cinema, Ron
And what about the municipality building that has not been renewed, as well as its residents.
Speaking of burned down, what about the Mainz library that burned down two years ago and no one is bothering to renovate it and return the library to the residents of the Carmel Center.
How much longer will we have to wait?
As usual, these articles do not refer to any building in Hadar Carmel as if it does not exist.
What about the pool at Gali Hadar on Hapoel Street and the Tamar Cinema???
In Tel Aviv they would have already built a country club for the neighborhood like the Remez Arlozorov Country Club.
Here the money goes to Klish's relatives in the 2030 administration. In the funds of this administration, nothing for two years
It was already possible to build a community center and a new pool for the neighborhood!!!
Beyond them:
Beit Maccabi on Shabtai Levy Street. The glorious past of the Maccabi movement is trampled!!!
Atzmon Cinema. It's time to bring the cinema back to glory!
A building in the huge shopping mall on Balfour Street is really empty
In Carmel:
The Mintz library has been empty and unrenovated for years after the fire
The giant comet cinema on Hasport Street
Cafe Moriah Cinema in Spector Square
more and more
What about Kolnea Ron?
In my understanding, first of all we need to make sure that there are no buildings and architectural monuments, which are a wound in the landscape (a burnt building, a building with erosion and exposed iron like in the Bat Galim casino). This is true towards the residents of the neighborhoods and the city, who live in these spaces and absorb them and this is true as a respectful and proper principle of the city's approach to its visitors; Residents of other cities and foreign tourists. In this sense, we are still far from, for example, Vienna in "Attitude", in relation to renovation tasks, maintenance of urban buildings, etc. Then, the location, condition of the building and its function must be considered. On a tangible level, it is not the remains of the "reserve" that disturbed the neighbors Like Bat Galim's casino, which is in a touristy place and really shouts, how could it be there otherwise.
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Bat Galim suffers from Rambam Hospital, the Navy, and the bathing beaches. In short, with the road infrastructure and access to the neighborhood, any additional building is a disaster. It would be better to take down the building and not build.
Let's start at the screening house, an un-abandoned building in the heart of Hadar and behind the rally school belongs to the Technion and the Israel Lands Administration, a plan that existed at the time of Goral and was frozen at the time of Mitzna, who decided to dry up Hadar. The building of the Technion had to be preserved as an entrance political pressures prevented it because the Bell Hadar shopping mall would have saved Hadar like the mall at Dizingoff Center where they took a decision by the city of Haifa in Becket at Haregli school Hadar students do not study in the morning there traffic jams of buses that return the traffic will wake up Yahav promised that for the most part Herzl will be Shanzahliza not a street of badasses. They have restored the honor to Hadar. There is no such neighborhood in the world
The head of the Green faction also has a hand in the fact that some of the mentioned buildings are not taken care of or not renovated. There is wretched politics here and wars on the backs of the property owners. Why would a property owner not want to improve the property, of course the municipality
All the properties mentioned in the article are in private hands and some of them are not all properties for preservation, but at least in the reserve and in Bobrosa and the building in Ben Gurion there should be no problem in using them. Renovated There are legal ways to force a property owner to renovate or sell
A few comments as a resident of the street,
Nothing remains of the reserve. , not clear what is meant here? Nobody wants a noise source here in front of our houses. I really hope no one comes up with ideas.
The Barbarossa pub is burnt down and the building is used as a Haredi yeshiva downstairs. Again, it is not clear what the writer meant, in addition, most of the places have moved to the underground city after years of complaints that Carmel does not have the same entertainment as there were thirty years ago.
The biggest white elephant in Haifa is the old building of Egged. And that's exactly what you forgot.
When there were investors to restore these properties, they took out their souls with tweezers. Ferrier will be the one who will try to enter the rehabilitation project with the municipality.
A few comments to be made, with all due respect and I thank you for the light of what is written here, I kind of lose it, it's better that such unnecessary bragging does not come up at all, ownership of private properties is not something that the municipality or mayor can come and take for themselves because that's how they feel like it, the casino building is not an ugly building It is a neglected building that needs to be conserved, the reserve was closed because neighbors could not tolerate the noise of the tweets of those spending time there and led a long trial that eventually resulted in a closing order being issued to Mekas, the Barbarossa was burned as part of a criminal act and no one has taken the place since, what exactly will the municipality do there? Will you open a club sponsored by the residents' property tax payments? What exactly will happen in the reserve? Will they start making noise to the neighbors again who will have to go to court again? What exactly does the "strong" mayor propose for the future? Municipal takeover by force of people's private forest, appropriating it for what exactly? And on what pretext exactly? Each building presented here has its own private history and chain of events that led to the current situation, for that you don't need a strong mayor, for that you need a mayor who is willing to pay a lot of money to purchase properties from private hands, I think it's either that or a strong mayor is something And Easty in the style of the wild west where his father went out for a duel at noon against those unruly property owners... we have enough of the wild west that the Haifa police's laxity allows us, and we will leave the rest to the cinema screens..
The casino in general will sink in heat as a result of global warming.
When Han says a strong mayor, I understand that he means himself, I don't think that Han is capable of running a city, the greens and running a city are one and the opposite. Or for him the green is just a bounce up.
Try to show him green and see how he will jump...
Every time I pass by Yona Street near Mishbir Bahadar, I am moved by the sight of the Bialik Gymnasium building, which was magnificent and beautifully designed. Literally architectural abuse.
What does the gentleman in the picture suggest? All the properties mentioned are in private hands. Is he suggesting that the municipality buy them? It is not better for the municipality to improve their conditions and construction rates, but what the hell, the populist gives solutions that he himself opposes every Monday and Thursday. Deputy Retch commented that this is a good joke to start the week with ????
In this case, we don't need a strong mayor who will use it, we need a smart mayor who knows how to come towards the entrepreneurs, to make it easier for them. In TMA 38 there is no government or municipal funding, there is only a reduction in the improvement levy, so in this case the mayor, whose strength is wisdom, gives the developer whatever he wants, because although the structure of the casino was renovated in the late 80s, every constructor will say that it cannot be used The same without a huge investment, because its foundations were built without any consideration for the nature of the sea, which "eats" any construction that is not adapted and maintained in accordance with the requirements for sealing against salt water. In the case of a "reserve" in the Romema neighborhood, the municipality does not grant a permit and license to a business for a restaurant, and in the case of Barbarossa, As in many other cases, the municipality should demand the sale of a building to an entrepreneur with a long-term plan for the use of the place, because the current owner is not interested in investing and is waiting until the fryer comes to renovate it for him at his own expense, but the land shortage is far behind us and entrepreneurs prefer to rent adapted and renovated buildings for their businesses.