Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder promised today in Cabinet that ‘the goal (of a new hall) will be successful by 2036.’
Cost projections, he said, have been halved – from one billion Euros to just 500,000.
Editorial note: No German concert hall in recent times has come in close to budget. Hamburg’s went seven times over.
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