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Dispute between Uri and Zug over the Samih Sawiris real estate project

Boris Busslinger

correspondent in German-speaking Switzerland

Published on November 10, 2024 at 07:08. / Modified on November 10, 2024 at 07:12.

It’s the hot conversation of the moment in central Switzerland: Samih Sawiris’ new real estate project. The Egyptian investor known for transforming Andermatt into a luxury resort wants to build a hotel with 50 rooms and 30 apartments, as well as 70 housing units and 7 bungalows on Isleten, a small bucolic plain located in the Uranian part of Lake Lucerne. Cantons. However, the cantonal Greens do not see it that way.

Following the launch of an initiative by the latter to protect the places, the Uranese are called to the polls on November 24. Between nature protectors and supporters of tourism development, the debate is lively – and getting more heated every day. In the latest episode, two Zug politicians submitted a postulate asking the city of Zug to intervene in the matter. An “interference”, some Uranese scold, in an increasingly stormy political climate.

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