In recent decades, the municipality’s privileged location between important transport routes ensured substantial growth for Risch-Rotkreuz. Stefan Kurath describes how, alongside anonymous districts for service industries and housing the Chäsimatt development by AM Architects and Helsinkizurich has created a centre with apartments, hotel, commerce, and a retailer around a public square. Together with the existing buildings, the development shapes a new centre with an unusual variety of communal facilities by means of carefully considered urban positioning and convincing threshold spaces. The high quality of the architectural design in specific solutions contributes to the success of this development. This indicates a growing awareness among private developers that the added value of good building for a good life must not have a negative impact on their returns.