Jungnang-gu Myeonmok Administrative Complex Town Integrated Development Officially Begins... Hansarang Village Apartment and Parking Lot Demolition

Groundbreaking Ceremony for Hansarang Village Apartment and Parking Lot Demolition Marks Full-Scale Start of Myeonmok Administrative Complex Integrated Development... Design Service to Begin Following Design Competition... Completion Targeted for April 2027

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Jungnang-gu (Mayor Ryu Kyung-gi) held a groundbreaking ceremony on the 28th for the demolition of Hansarang Village Apartment and parking lot, marking the official start of the integrated development of the Myeonmok Administrative Complex Town.

Starting with this demolition, the integrated development project will proceed to the design service phase following a design competition.

The Myeonmok Administrative Complex Town integrated development project is a large-scale integrated development initiative aimed at revitalizing the area by linking the redevelopment of aging public office buildings around Yongmasan Station with surrounding facilities, including the youth training center and the Hansarang Village Apartment site.

The main components of the project include the construction of a complex building combining the community center and resident center, a youth training center, public housing, commercial facilities, and a public parking lot.

Notably, the project plan incorporates feedback from local residents and adds Seoul’s first pilot project for equity-accumulation type sale housing. The development will feature a 40-story building with 702 public housing units. After six rounds of design competition operation committee meetings, the announcement for the design competition is imminent.

The Myeonmok Administrative Complex Town integrated development project, scheduled to begin construction in December 2022 and complete in April 2027, is expected to lead regional balanced development alongside the expansion of administrative, cultural, and welfare infrastructure and the activation of the Yongmasan station area functions in Myeonmok-dong.

The Hansarang Village Apartment, currently being demolished, was built around the time of the 1988 Olympics as housing for female labor cleaners. It consisted of 134 units of 16-pyeong apartments, operated to provide affordable accommodation for unmarried manufacturing workers under 26 years old, basic livelihood security recipients, and children of national veterans. After the direction for the administrative complex town was finalized, all residents moved out in June last year, and the site has been managed as vacant housing since then.

The district office and SH Corporation recognized the need for preliminary demolition starting in January this year and collected opinion letters from 3,041 residents requesting demolition. The demolition design service was completed in August. Through this demolition, the district expects to resolve residents’ concerns about the site becoming a crime-prone area and safety accidents, signaling the official start of the administrative complex town development.

Ryu Kyung-gi, Mayor of Jungnang-gu, stated, “Although Hansarang Village Apartment will disappear into history, the Myeonmok Administrative Complex Town project will officially get on track. We will join forces with Seoul City, SH Corporation, and others to ensure the successful promotion of the integrated development project of the administrative complex town.”

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