Project Two Wheelers
Brasschaat - The legendary café 2-Wheelers will be demolished this year. The building will then make way for a new construction of nine apartments, also on the ground floor. The completion of this Two Wheelers project is scheduled for mid-2026.
Left: this is what the corner of Bredabaan and De Borrekenslei will look like in the future. Right: café 2-Wheelers. - © RR
It has taken some doing, but the permits are now complete. Two Wheelers is a realisation of Van Wellen Group. Heylen Vastgoed is responsible for the sale.
On the ground floor will be two one-bedroom units. The location - corner of Bredabaan-De Borrekenslei - is in what the municipal council calls a run-up street. That means there is no obligation to provide a commercial space on the ground floor.
Alderman for Spatial Planning Myriam Van Honste (Open VLD) : ‘A commercial space is not compulsory on the ground floor. Flats or offices may be built. In the core, between Door Verstraetelei and the old town hall, where we apply the principle of fun shopping, it is different.’
The flats will have one or two bedrooms. There are five storeys. There will be a penthouse on the top floor. The flats have private terraces and there is parking and communal storage for rubbish and bicycles. Prices range from 275,000 euros to 529,000 euros for the penthouse. That penthouse will have an area of 102 square metres and a terrace of 94 square metres.
The property has quite a history behind it. In 1962, cycling legend Jan Zagers opened his bicycle shop there. The bus stop there was popularly called the Jan Zagers stop. In the 1990s, Zagers moved his trade to larger premises on Bredabaan towards Maria-ter-Heide. The property was transformed into a catering establishment aptly named 2-Wheelers. That closed its doors in May 2019. (jb)
