Singi13 District Transforms into 587-Unit Apartment... Seoul's First Public Reconstruction Project

Seoul's Yeongdeungpo-gu Shingil 13 District will be reborn as a newly built apartment complex with a total of about 580 households through public reconstruction. This is the first public reconstruction case in Seoul.

Location Map of Singil 13 District

Seoul City announced on the 26th that it held the Urban Redevelopment Subcommittee the day before and approved the revised Shingil 13 District Redevelopment Promotion Plan with these details.

Public reconstruction is a project in which the public sector participates to supply housing units above a certain scale, providing public support such as zoning upgrades and permitting procedure assistance.

Accordingly, the zoning of the target site will be upgraded from Type 3 General Residential to Semi-Residential, increasing the number of supplied households from the original 266 units (49 public housing units) to 587 units (181 public housing units), more than doubling, and creating a large-scale residential complex with a height of 35 floors.

The 181 public housing units will be composed of units with exclusive areas of 59 to 84 square meters, preferred by families of 3 to 4 members, according to the 'Seoul-type Rental Housing Innovation Plan' announced in April last year, and some of these will be supplied as public sale units.

Police centers, public rental office facilities, and shared parking lots will be secured within general buildings.

Location Map of Hongje 1 District

At the meeting, the 'Hong Eun 1 District Redevelopment Promotion Plan,' which creates a residential complex with up to 34 floors and 329 households in Hongje 1 District, Seodaemun-gu, was also approved with revisions.

Hong Eun 1 District was designated as a redevelopment zone in 2008 but was deregulated in 2016 due to prolonged project stagnation.

With this decision, the site will have three buildings ranging from three basement floors to 34 floors above ground, totaling 329 households (110 rental housing units) of multi-family housing and neighborhood living facilities.

The zoning will be upgraded from Type 2 and 3 General Residential to Semi-Residential, and social welfare facilities and shared parking lots needed in the area will be built through public contributions.

Neighborhood living facilities will be placed around two public open spaces and public pedestrian paths to enhance walking convenience and activate the streetscape. In addition, residents' exclusive spaces will be spatially separated to coexist with the community while improving the residential environment.

Han Byung-yong, Director of Seoul City's Housing Policy Office, said, "We expect that a high-density, mixed-use urban residential complex will be created where residents who have suffered from poor local conditions can live in a more pleasant environment. We will continue to supply quality housing to improve the residential environment and enhance the urban landscape."

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