Houses for approximately 300 families will be built in the once excluded area of Trnkovec in Ostrava-Radvanice on an area of almost 80,000 square meters. Construction will be preceded by the demolition of 13 houses with 102 apartments. The estimated cost of the project is more than a billion crowns, according to the mayor of the Radvanice and Bartovice municipal district Aleš Boháč (SNK Radvanice and Bartovice) and representatives of Heimstaden and První Trnkovecká, which will be the investors.
“After certain years, it became a socially weak, excluded locality. This transformation is essential for the development of our city district,” said Boháč. According to him, this is an unprecedentedly large construction in the district in recent years and one of the largest constructions that are being planned in Ostrava, and moreover in the most advanced phase.
“The infrastructure is ready at this place. We have communications here, we have electricity, water, networks here and we just need to build houses. První Trnkovecká should start handing over projects already this year and has an idea of building the first stage in 2023, when there should be five apartment buildings with 35 apartment units, 13 houses in connected rows and seven single-family houses,” said the mayor.
The CEO of Heimstaden, Jan Rafaj, said that the houses that the company now has there are in a very bad condition, most of them were not even habitable anymore and the last few were inhabited in the last few months. “We believe in that locality as well as the municipality, which has done a huge amount of work here. I think it’s a beautiful place to live. That’s why we also started working very intensively to make sure that what’s standing here at the moment disappears, that means houses for which reconstruction does not even make sense. In the end, it would be more expensive than building new houses,” said Rafaj.
Tenants moved out of the area gradually. “We mostly offered tenants, if we didn’t have problems with them, alternative accommodation in our entire wide portfolio that we have. We have 43,000 apartments in the entire region, so there was space,” said the director.
He said that they could not yet demolish the houses because some of them also serve as power poles. “We are negotiating with the electricity supplier to be able to disconnect them as quickly as possible. Sufficient, high-quality relays must be provided so that the power is not cut off to the houses behind it. This delayed our efforts by several months. But we believe that at the latest year or in the course of the next year, we will complete everything so that the location is free of old houses and that we start preparing new projects,” said Rafaj.
Construction in the entire territory should have a uniform style, since the same office works on it for both investors. “We looked for several models. In the end, we also lean towards the fact that the houses should be lower, smaller, create more space for comfort and privacy for living, so that no megalomaniacal housing estates should be created here, but rather a very pleasant neighborhood for living ” said Rafaj.
The investors, together with the regional town hall, are also working to ensure amenities in the area. “We are ready to add the necessary civic amenities, whether it’s a square, whether it’s parks, whether it’s a consideration to expand a kindergarten in a nearby school, or other needs that a location of this size would need,” said the mayor.
According to Rafaj, construction costs are particularly difficult to estimate at the moment. “But each new apartment is in the order of millions of crowns, so it is easy to calculate that if 300 apartments were actually built here by a combination of two private investors, that would definitely be an investment of over a billion crowns,” said Rafaj.
The manager of První Trnkovecká, Petr Koštoval, said that he considers the location to be unique for its size and location – an area with lots of greenery is only seven minutes from the city center by car. “There is a wonderful environment here, there are leisure activities here, everything is within walking distance. Moreover, thanks to the cooperation of a joint design office and studio, architecture can be created that will give the area head and heels. For me – we are going to make one of the most beautiful parts here together Ostrava,” said Koštoval.
Source: CTK
