Harrachov in Jablonecko is offering a customs house unused for years on the Czech-Polish border in an electronic auction. The city wants to get at least CZK 59.7 million for the area of 9,000 sqm and dilapidated building. The auction should start on the Gavlas website on Friday, July 29 and end on Tuesday, August 2 according to Hana Veselá at Harrachov town hall.
According to Deputy Mayor Tomáš Vašíček (SNK – Změna pro Harrachov), there are several investors who have shown a serious interest in the site, whether it will actually be sold, the auction will show. “If we fail to sell it, then nothing happens for me, the property has value, and if we also change the zoning plan, then the price will be different,” Vašíček said yesterday. According to him, if a buyer is not found during the holidays, the town hall management is ready to repeat the auction in September. The next step will be up to the newly elected city representative.
The customs house, built in the 1970s from granite and concrete, was acquired by Harrachov free of charge from the state in 2008. In the past, there was a game room and a free shop with food, but the customs house has been unused and dilapidated for many years. “We have an opinion that says it is almost irreparable,” Vašíček said. The city has no use for the customs house, and attempts by the previous city management to return the building to the state ended in failure. The city bought the related land for CZK 11 million and is now offering the almost hectare area to investors.
The new owner will have to demolish the buildings, but according to Vašíček, these are very lucrative plots of land just 400 meters from the new recreation area in Jakušice, Poland. In the future, a bike path should connect the area with the Polish side and with Harrachov. In addition, Harrachov today does not offer any free land on which to build, and there are not many buildings in the mountain resort where new hotels or houses with holiday apartments could be built. “And no one will allow construction on the green field here,” Vašíček added.
According to the deputy mayor, the city already has a clear use for the money from the sale. “We would like to return the CZK 11 million that we gave for the land to the budget. We would like to use it to participate in subsidies for repairs of municipal property, we also want to build some apartments for young people,” said Vašíček. The city wants to gradually invest the remaining money in the restoration of the neglected area of ski jumps. “We want to do as many things as possible ourselves and show that the area could be economically self-sufficient,” added the deputy mayor of Harrach.
Source: CTK
