Construction of Westminster officially started on Tuesday, July 8. Alderman Beryl van Straten-van Diepenbeek (Municipality of Haarlemmermeer), Erik Esveld MSc EMFC/RC (Van Herk Group), Dick van der Plas (KBM Group) and Sander van Oss (NEOO) together performed the festive commencement ceremony.
Westminster is part of the Hyde Park area development, where former office buildings are making way for a high-quality, lively and sustainable residential neighborhood. At the location on Jupiterstraat (the future Dudokstraat), a closed building block with nine apartment buildings will rise, the ‘Hoofddorp Houses’.
NEOO, commissioned by Van Herk Groep, is developing four of these buildings, to a design by Vision Architecture, good for 198 rental apartments, 60 percent of which are in the affordable segment, two commercial spaces and facilities for car and bicycle parking. Construction will be handled by contractor KBM Group and completion is scheduled for the first quarter of 2028.