An urban apartment building will be built in Za Papírnou street in Prague’s Holešovice, which will be built by the local town hall. These will mainly be smaller apartments intended for business purposes, the disabled or people from socially vulnerable groups. The costs are estimated at CZK 125 million. The town hall will find the form of the house in an international architectural competition. This follows from a document approved by the councilors of Prague 7.
It is not yet clear when exactly the house will be built. Due to the lack of apartments this June, the town hall decided, among other things, to buy back a third of the apartment building in Jana Zajíce Street from a private owner, the rest of which it already owns. Prague 7 currently has 653 municipal apartments under management.
The new town house will be built on a plot of land with a total area of 783 square meters, namely on the corner of Železničářů and Za Papírnou streets, near metro station C Nádraží Holešovice and the Praha-Holešovice train stop. The plot is located in the area of the so-called large development area Bubny-Zátory.
The goal of the district is the construction of an economically and environmentally friendly building, which will be one of the first building blocks of the newly planned district, it was announced.
The building is intended to offer urban housing to various groups of residents and will include the aforementioned service apartments, housing for people with disabilities or from socially at-risk groups. Smaller apartments will predominate, ideally in a modular solution. Civic amenities are also planned, including spaces for a children’s group with at least 21 children.
The entire capital city has long been struggling with a lack of apartments and their high prices. One of the solutions promoted by the current management of the municipality is cooperative housing. In June, Prague representatives approved the first such project, in which two blocks of houses with up to 266 apartments will be built at Radlická Street in Prague 5. The city still needs to find a partner with whom to establish a housing association and build the house. At the same time, the municipality will commission a study of a possible housing development on the southern edge of the Černý Most housing estate on the border between Praha 14 and Dolní Počernice.
A June study by the Swiss company PriceHubble showed that the most expensive apartments in Prague are in Josefov and the cheapest in Satalice, but even there the price of a 2+kk apartment measuring 64 meters does not fall below 100,000 crowns per square meter. The average price per square meter of residential real estate in Prague is CZK 120,645, the data showed.
Source: CTK
