The Prague Development Company (PDS), founded last year by the capital, will prepare a project to build about 330 flats on municipal land in Dolní Počernice. The city councils decided on it yesterday. Some time ago, they approved the preparation of other apartment buildings in Vršovice, Smíchov, Palmovka, Ládví and Zlíchov. PDS was founded by the city for this purpose.
The city-owned land is located between Českobrodská and U konečně streets. Based on yesterday’s decision, PDS will complete the preparation of a tender for the designer of the first part of apartment construction. The project with 330 apartments is to have a gross floor area of about 27,500 sqm and PDS would like to have a zoning decision for construction at the end of 2024.
“Because it is a complex area, the construction will not take place until the end of the next election period,” said Adam Zábranský (Pirates) after the council of the housing council. According to him, the costs of the project are now estimated at about CZK 365 million, but in reality they will be higher. “I think there will definitely be an increase in the budget,” he said. He added that in addition to the plots intended for the first part of the construction, the city also owns the neighboring ones, which are even larger.
At the last meeting, the councilors approved several other similar plans. PDS will prepare projects for apartment buildings on the site of the current car park at the Ďolíček football stadium in Vršovice, between Matoušova, Štefánikova and V Botanice streets, at the Palmovka metro station and on the southern edge of the Ďáblice housing estate and on the slope at Nový Zlíchov Street. On the plot south of Sicherova Street in Prague 14, PDS will prepare the construction of a kindergarten.
According to Zábranský, the council yesterday also approved two subsidies for city districts for the construction of apartment buildings. The first with 20 apartments will be in Slivenci. “The city district also held an architectural competition, so the resulting project is also architecturally beautiful,” said Zábranský, adding that the municipality will contribute CZK 65 million to the town hall. According to him, the project already has a building permit.
The city will give another CZK 180 million to Prague 14 for the reconstruction and extension of a home for the elderly, the councilor said. He added that the city district has applied for a grant from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, so about a third of the money should be returned after its approval by the municipality.
So far, according to earlier information, the municipality has entrusted PDS with land with an area of about 419,000 sqm with a market value of CZK 2.94 billion. The role of the DSO is to prepare projects on urban land and will be in charge of it throughout the approval process up to the zoning decision and building permit. It will be built in various forms, including in cooperation with the private sector, cooperatives or construction communities. The aim is to increase housing construction in the metropolis and speed up project preparation, which now often takes more than a decade. In recent years, Prague has been facing a housing crisis and high housing prices.
Source: CTK
