New residential district approved for Odense

The Odense City Council has greenlit plans to redevelop the 42,500 square meter former Tasso foundry site into a new residential district. The trapezoidal Tasso area will make way for 440 housing units, a 1,200 square meter grocery store, and recreational urban spaces.

Currently, the site only has a few remaining one- to two-story commercial buildings amidst overgrown vegetation after previous industrial uses were cleared out, leaving it vacant for years.

“Today it’s all gone out there. It has been a big empty space for a really long time,” said Søren Windell, the city’s urban and cultural affairs councilor, at the council meeting approving the local development plan.

The existing structures will be demolished to construct 37,700 square meters of residential floor area across the new district being developed by housing company Civica.

A council member welcomed transforming the neglected grounds into an appealing residential area with recreational urban spaces, calling it “a beautiful swan now rising in the area” with an exciting future ahead.

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