The police station and the IDF Southern Command headquarters currently operating in the heart of the Old City will be vacated. The compound will be converted into an area that combines housing, culture and leisure activities, and a new urban hub with mixed uses.
The plan applies to an area of about 39 dunams, between the streets Palmach, Herzl, Independence, and Hativat HaNegev, and defines a new planning framework for the compound as an open urban space that integrates residences, commerce, employment, tourism, public buildings, and high-quality public spaces.
This is one of the most significant and central compounds in the Old City, which until today served as a closed and fenced military area, and is expected to open for the first time for the benefit of the public.
This is one of the most significant and central compounds in the Old City, which until today served as a closed and fenced military area, and is expected to open for the first time for the benefit of the public.
As part of the plan, designed by the firm “Irit Tsaraf – Architecture and Urban Planning” for the Beersheba Municipality, about 237 housing units will be built in buildings of up to six stories, above a commercial ground floor and public uses. The planning aims to create active street fronts throughout the day and to strengthen the vitality of the public realm in the heart of the Old City. (Ed note: Beersheba. So here's you chance to live in history where the Hebrew patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lived. The phrase "from Dan to Beersheba" symbolized the entire land of Israel.) (Read More)
