Prague is preparing to take over the Exhibition Center, the era of In is definitively ending
Through its wholly owned company Rozvojové projekty Praha (RPP), the Prague municipality will start offering the Holešovice Výstaviště for rent from September. In this way, the era of the Incheba company, which was in charge of the Exhibition Center for many years, will definitively end. The municipality has already appointed a new board of directors to the RPP, headed by deputy mayor Václav Novotný (TOP 09), because of the Exhibition Centre.
The contract with the current tenant of the area, Incheba, will expire at the end of this year. The city decided to terminate the contract in 2012. “There will definitely be no extension with Incheba as the administrator of the Exhibition Center,” said Novotný. The capital receives 20.8 million crowns annually from Incheba for renting the Exhibition Centre. Prague will manage the Exhibition Center through RPP from the beginning of next year.
However, according to Novotný, the city as the new administrator has not yet signed a contract for the future event. “We are now preparing price lists and contract terms. I expect the conclusion of sublease agreements from September onwards,” Novotný told the E15.cz server.
According to Novotný, the municipality chose the joint-stock company Rozvojové projekty Praha as the administrator of the area, so that it would not have to establish a new “stock company”. According to Novotný, it was a more economical and efficient option.
RPP was transformed from the company Trade centrum Praha – Vidoule, which was originally only in charge of municipal plots in Prague 13 in cooperation with the developer Skanska housing project Botanica. “The project is nearing completion, and today’s RPP is thus heading towards meaninglessness, and thus the pointlessness of its existence at all. That’s why we decided to use this emptying question as a matter of the development of the Exhibition Center,” noted Novotný.
At the same time, the board of directors was re-elected in July. The management of the stock company is now Václav Novotný, Petr Bříza (TOP 09), and the chairman of the regional executive committee of the ČSSD, Karel Klíma, also a former long-time director of the Exhibition Center. Novotný justified the appointment of posts by the long-term experience of the appointees in the field.
For many years of experience in the function
“I have many years of experience in organizing Czech official participation in industrial fairs around the world, Mr. Klíma has many years of experience as the director of the Prague Exhibition Center, and Mr. Bříza, in turn, as an organizer of major sporting events, such as the World Hockey Championship,” said Novotný.
Prague has big plans for the Exhibition Center, the area should be opened to circus productions and concerts in the future. The municipality plans to demolish the fences that surround it and build its own railway station here. A more modest one, on the other hand, plans to reconstruct the burned-out Industrial Palace.
The capital city is also awaiting repair of Marold’s panorama, and Křižík’s fountain also needs reconstruction.