The dilapidated torso in the center of Palmovka will probably be completed. Prague already has a tenant
The capital is now finalizing the terms of a future lease with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport. “If we manage to negotiate an agreement, the council could discuss this agreement in June. The council will vote on it and then the city council. If its wording is approved, everything will be ready so that the buildings can be moved by EUSPA after completion, “Hlaváček describes the necessary steps.
“The space agency would be an excellent impetus for the development of the entire more than ten-hectare area, which has the ambition to become the new center of Prague 8,” Hlaváček added, adding that if it fails to conclude a contract with the state, it will find employment with other tenants. “The city will finish it anyway,” he assured.
The June signing will be followed by a revision of the project and the related project preparation for the completion of the construction. The construction contractor could then be selected during the first half of 2023, and the workers could return to the immediately unsightly torso. EUSPA could move within three years, Hlaváček believes.
He did not want to specify the contractual relations between the capital, the state and the agency. It is also not yet clear how much the extension will cost. The building of the current EUSPA headquarters in Prague’s Holešovice belongs to the state and the agency pays it only a quarter of the commercial rent according to the agreement.
The construction called the Palmovka Center for 1.1 billion crowns has not been completed for many years. The project, which was to create the new town hall of Prague 8, was approved by the local management in 2010. Construction began in 2014. However, after the election, the new town hall questioned the ownership of the building and the building became the subject of litigation between Prague 8, the municipality and the building. by Metrostav. In the end, the parties agreed that the building would be delivered to Prague 8 with the help of a city subsidy.
The manufacturer of 3D printers Josef Průša, who wanted to move his company Prusa Research, was also interested in the unfinished building. At the end of last year, he published a project according to which the costs of completing the center could range between 500 million and a billion crowns.