Two apartment buildings with a total of 28 flats on Černý Most will be built for the Prague City Hall for CZK 99.8 million (VAT excluded) by Trigema Building. The result of the tender for the construction work was approved today by the city councillors. According to the approved document, the residential construction in Černý Most should start this year and finish in 2026. According to Deputy Mayor Alexandra Udženija (ODS), the city is also planning other residential buildings in the area.
Two identical houses with four above-ground and one underground floor with garages will be built on Černý Most. In both buildings, 28 apartments are proposed with a total area of 1,751.86 square metres, including two special-purpose apartments for the disabled, it was announced.
The buildings will house 14 2-bedroom apartments and an equal number of 3-bedroom apartments. In total, 84 people will find housing there. There will be garages in the basement, greenery on the roofs and climbing plants will wind their way up the facade to the first floor level. In addition to the apartments, the above-ground part will also include space for a heat exchange station, roundhouses and drying rooms.
Udženija added that the city’s contributory organisation, the Prague Development Company (PDS), is also preparing the construction of further urban apartments on Černý Most. “Now it should go to some kind of building permit,” she said.
Prague has been struggling with a housing crisis in recent years due to high housing prices. The municipality manages about 7,000 flats, with another 23,000 or so entrusted to the city’s districts. After 1991, about 194,000 flats became the property of the city, but the privatisations that followed reduced the city’s stock by more than 80 percent.
The city administration wants to increase the number of public housing units again and thus ensure affordable housing for social purposes or for representatives of professions essential for the city’s operation, for example. To this end, the municipality established the PDS in the last parliamentary term to prepare the city’s land for housing construction. According to recent information, it is preparing about fifty projects, which are expected to provide between 6,000 and 8,000 public housing units over the next ten years. The houses closest to construction are Jalový dvůr in Prague 4, Zlíchov in Prague 5 and Zenklova Street near Palmovka in Prague 8.
Source: CTK
Photo: Černý Most, PDS
