Andermatt - Resort Dieni AG Receives Building Permit

Resort Dieni Development AG has received a building permit from the municipality of Tujetsch for the construction of Resort Dieni. A new part of the village with 13 buildings is to be built in Dieni/Sedrun with direct access to public transport and the slopes of the SkiArena Andermatt-Sedrun (ski-in/ski-out).

“With the building permit now granted for our groundbreaking project, we can for the first time realize a larger construction project on the Graubünden side of the Andermatt-Sedrun destination,” says Raphael Krucker, CEO of Andermatt Swiss Alps AG, the parent company of Resort Dieni Development AG. “After our planning application has been thoroughly examined, we can now start the detailed planning.”

In a unique location at the end of the valley in Sedrun/Dieni, 13 buildings with 410 hotel rooms are to be built by 2029 on the site of the current parking lot opposite the Dieni valley station of the Andermatt-Sedrun SkiArena. 119 additional residential units are for sale and are managed for tourism purposes. These are units of different sizes, from studios to 5.5-room apartments.

A total of three objections were received as part of the building permit process, two of which were withdrawn after questions had been clarified. The Helvetia Nostra Foundation's main concerns were taken into account in the building permit, with the building decision explicitly ensuring that the residential units for sale will be used as tourist apartments and that the hotel area will be built earlier or at the same time as the apartments. This also corresponds to the client's stated intention.

The aim for the Dieni resort is to build and operate as sustainably as possible. This includes the choice of sustainable materials, but also state-of-the-art operation. The resort is supplied with heat in a CO2-neutral manner by a wood pellet heating system; 50 percent of the roof area will be equipped with 1,500 m2 of photovoltaics. Construction is scheduled to start in 2026.

Andermatt Swiss Alps AG, based in Andermatt, plans, builds and develops the year-round destination Andermatt. Andermatt Reuss has been developing apartment buildings, hotels and villas since 2009. The Andermatt Swiss Alps Group includes the hotels The Chedi Andermatt and Radisson Blu Reussen, the Andermatt Alpine Apartments, an 18-hole, par-72 championship golf course and the Andermatt Concert Hall. There is a close partnership for the development of the destination with Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG (SkiArena Andermatt-Sedrun, Gastrobrand Mountain Food, Swiss Snow Sports School Andermatt and Sportshop Gleis 0) and its majority shareholder Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts, the largest ski resort operator in the world, and Andermatt Swiss Alps are pursuing the vision of becoming The Prime Alpine Destination. They are committed to an intact environment, a future worth living in and enable future generations to have an exceptional home. Andermatt Swiss Alps and Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG employ over 1,000 people at the Altdorf, Andermatt and Sedrun locations during the high season.