Uri: Franz Weber Foundation feels ‘vindicated’ in marina project

The Franz Weber Foundation has welcomed the government's stance on the planned harbour project on the Isleten peninsula in canton Uri, central Switzerland. It is calling for a fresh start and is offering to enter into a dialogue with the canton, it said on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Federal Office for Spatial Development has clearly stated that the project with an artificial harbour would "seriously impair" the protected landscape on Lake Uri and is not eligible for approval, the press release stated. Around a week-and-a-half ago, a preliminary assessment report by the federal government deemed the project with hotels, bungalows, boat moorings and the upgrading of the lakeshore in its "current form" to be unrealisable. Egyptian investor Samih Sawiris wants to realise a hotel with 50 rooms and 30 hotel flats in the three- to four-star range as well as 70 flats and seven bungalows on the Isleten. His plans became known as the "Marina project".