UBICA, an amazing building that has been squatted for 20 years in Utrecht,Netherlands has recently been sold and is now under serious threat of eviction. I’ve stayed in this gaff so many times and had a lot friends live there over the years. Fuckn poxy news.
Here’s a quick google translate of the squatters statement:
At present it is unclear whether these sales were completely round. The AD / UN of January 20 reported that there is a temporary contract with termination clause. In the AD / UN from January 21, the new owner, William Klaassen, now that the sale was handled. The 76-year-old owner and landlord would Vloet some time to negotiate the sale concluded with the 34-year project developer Klaassen. Klaassen is a young project that mainly focuses on monuments and has a hotel in Utrecht. He wants to establish a hotel in Ubicapand.
We as residents of the Ubica currently have no more information than the media coverage. We therefore had no notification of interested parties and do not know how soon the new owner would want to realize the plans. We regret very much that it now appears that the Ubica with her twenty years squatting history, to make way for luxury in the heart of Utrecht. As the housing and planning Alderman Gilbert Isabella in the AD / UN on January 20 rightly points out, because of the squatters that Ubicapand still standing. For twenty years, much time and money in the Ubicapand, but unfortunately this space now seems to disappear in favor of commerce. Simultaneously, there is still a lot of housing in Utrecht. The waiting list for social housing has been eight years and still be affordable housing to make way for luxury apartments and commercial destinations.
As we previously indicated, the information we currently have is very limited. Once we learn more we will publish on Indymedia. At the moment we as residents’ group to consider what will happen. We will keep you updated!
- Residents Ubica
https://www.indymedia.nl/node/2000
