Leverkusen - Bayer's new dream arena - the construction of the new stadium is increasingly becoming a nightmare. As reported EXPRESS early May, was to be closed on Saturday to certainty: The Lindner Hotel has long been - and apparently Bayer paid the bill.
As the Rheinische Post on Saturday reported that Bayer has boss Wolfgang wooden houses fork out 4.1 million euros in order to pacify hotel boss Otto Lindner jr. He had previously threatened any action, wanted to force a building freeze. "To speculate, I take no position," says Bayer boss. "This is not our hotel, we can not close it. The figures I will not comment. "
But hotel manager Elke Zäschke confirmed on Saturday the Express: "We conclude Monday for twelve months. I am currently trying to accommodate the employees in other hotels of the Lindner Group. "In private conversations between the wooden houses and Lindner has been struggling in recent days to find a solution. On Sunday we will go to the public.
It is not the first problems in the reconstruction. It started with the kostenbedingten move to Dusseldorf. Then steel prices rocketed. "We thought about stopping the whole project," admits wooden houses. The Bayer boss reached an agreement with a general contractor, wanted a "cost cap" of 70 million euros. But that is schöngerechnet: The building costs (estimated at 3 million euros) are there any more in there as the compensation payments to Lindner and McDonald's (approximately 1.2 million euros).
And it threatens to further trouble. On the other side of Bismarck Street, where Bayer plans to buy 04 parking hinbauen and the fast food, there is a group of local residents (nickname: The Gauls) who wish to defend themselves against their neighbors.
According EXPRESS information next week they intend to initiate legal action against the plans and could disrupt the reconstruction. Nothing but trouble for wooden houses & Co. But General Manager Zäschke already longs for the end of the conversion work: "On 1 July 2009 we will return to a beautiful new stadium. "
