Prague will rebuild Hotel Opatov for 689 million. She returned to her original plan
The Prague City Hall will pay 689 million crowns without VAT for the reconstruction of the Opatov Hotel in the South Town into flats. The work will be carried out by Hochtief CZ, which the councilors selected today as the winner of the public tender announced in 2018. The councilors rejected the award of the contract on the grounds that the price is too high, but now they have returned to the original project.
“If the city prepared the reconstruction in this way today, I believe that the whole process would have been better. The contract for the construction contractor was announced at the end of last period, and as we have verified, housing Adam Zábranský (Pirates).
At the beginning of the year, Zábranský stated that the competition resulted in a quarter higher price of the expected 550 million crowns and that the city would cancel the project and prepare a study of other possible solutions, including the demolition of buildings. At the next meeting of the council, the opposition defended itself and the deputies voted for the city management to take steps leading as soon as possible to the repair and creation of affordable housing.
According to today’s information, Prague commissioned the Prague Development Company to prepare an analysis of alternative options for dealing with a high-rise building. According to the municipality, this showed that even with regard to rising prices in construction, further delays would not be advantageous for the city.
Against the original plans, he found a project of changes. Instead of originally units of 323 apartments, there are to be 275 in the former hotel, because the number of larger ones intended for families has increased.
In the future, Hotel Opatov is to serve as an estimate for the former Sandra hostel, which is being reconstructed in Prague 11 for the estimated price of half a billion crowns. The project has long criticized the opposition Movement for Prague 11, according to whose representatives it is overpriced.