The feasibility study was conducted after the neighborhood’s residents (about 340 families) contacted a number of different construction companies with the request of preparing an urban renewal plan for the Ma’agalei Yavne compound. If this program comes to fruition, it will be one of the largest and most complicated urban renewal programs in Jerusalem.
The planning proposal must meet a variety of criteria: economic viability; implementation stages; the creation of a successful urban space; finding traffic solutions and meeting requests by the residents who are the clients.
The planning proposal aligns with the central tenets of the Gonenim neighborhood strategic plan. The plan suits and supports the changes expected in the neighborhood in the coming decades – densification, the introduction of a light rail system and development of the Gonenim and Railway parks. The plan proposal includes a mixed use compound with 1,250 residential units at different heights, from a school of 3-4 floors up until 30 story residential towers