Today in Rhein-Main: Building is becoming more expensive

Good evening,

must be conducted on many fronts, and some of them are curious.

The legislator's idea, for example, that reusable containers must also be offered for food from fast food restaurants, pizzerias and supermarkets, has not yet found any real support.

A test call to a pizzeria in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, for example, resulted in the request for reusable pizza packaging being simply hung up.

In a fast food chain, returnables are possible, but you first have to register online, pay a deposit and return the bowl within two weeks.

It may not be the best time to start reusable packaging, after all, many entrepreneurs are happy that they just survived Corona.

On the other hand, what is it

a right time?

Incidentally, we allow ourselves to note that a few decades ago, conversely, disposable food packaging was unknown.

It should actually be possible to get back there.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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It just doesn't work without many small steps.

Over the weekend, Deutsche Bahn announced that from April onwards it will be possible to find out in advance on the region’s S-Bahn trains via an ad on the platform or even in an app where there are still seats available on the train.

That sounds great, you can stand at the right door.

Well, many train passengers would perhaps say that even more important than the news of how the passengers are distributed on an S-Bahn is that it arrives at all and preferably is on time.

But we don't want to be too strict.

When the state-owned company modernizes its service – great.

Other is not so great.

For years, building was comparatively cheap, but not enough building land was allocated in the region, so apartments remained expensive.

Scarce supply, because the prices rise.

Now it's too late to close the gap.

Because building is becoming more expensive because of drastically increased interest rates, also because of higher construction costs.

Construction prices rose by 14 percent last year, which is lavish.

At the reception of the Frankfurter Sparkasse after the New Year's concert in the Alte Oper on Sunday evening, its CEO Ingo Wiedemeier said there was a significant decline in the real estate business.

Blessed are those who have long since built or bought.

And in addition

, our state parliament correspondent Ewald Hetrodt comments on the strange tweet from the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament on the Lübcke investigation committee, which he believes is a "clumsy work of art" +++ the cultural editors report on new structures for dance in the region + ++ Evonik in Hanau is working on a new method for recycling lithium.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website.

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Initially dense clouds, then intermittent sunshine.

In the evening it rains.

Maximum temperatures 7 to 9 degrees.

have birthday

on

Tuesday, January 10th

Georg Thiel

, from 2017 to December 2022 President of the Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden (66);

(FDP), full-time city councilor in Offenbach (64);

, director and head of the European Academy of Labor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (61);

, full-time district councilor in the Main-Taunus district, from 2016 to March 2022 chairman of the FDP Main-Taunus (57);

, Germany boss of the consumer goods group Procter & Gamble, Schwalbach am Taunus (56).

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