Liberec has selected designers for the construction on the so-called Papírák, costing over 50 million.

Liberec - Liberec has selected companies that will prepare the project for the construction of apartment buildings and a parking garage in the area known as Papírák, which is among the most neglected places in the lower city center. The city will divide over 50 million crowns among three architectural studios. However, the price was only ten percent influential in this contract, as the selected firms' bids were among the more expensive, according to data from the procurement bulletin website.

Liberec was looking for designers for the preparation of seven apartment buildings with approximately 150 apartments and a parking garage for 300 to 400 cars. Deputy Mayor Jiří Janďourek (Mayors for the Liberec Region) previously stated that the contract was deliberately divided into three parts to involve more architectural studios in the project preparation. The city hopes that the development will be more diverse than if it were designed by a single architect.

In the criteria set by the city leadership, the main architect's experience had a forty percent weight, the landscape architect thirty percent, and the traffic engineer twenty percent.

In the largest contract including the preparation for the construction of the parking garage, the Brno KOGAA studio succeeded with a bid of 29.62 million crowns. Out of 13 bids, it was the third highest price. In the contract involving the construction of buildings on Lucemburská and Vrabčí streets, the most points in the evaluation were awarded to the Prague firm XTOPIX architekti with a bid of 12.753 million crowns. Among 16 bids, it was the seventh highest. For the third contract for the construction of buildings on Lucemburská street, the city council selected the Prague company re:architekti with a bid of 7.865 million, which was the highest price among 18 bids.

The Papírák area, also referred to as Papírové náměstí, is located between Soukenné náměstí and the elementary school on Barvířská street. It is among the most neglected places in the center of the hundred-thousand city. There are several owners of the land in this area, with the city owning the most. It owns approximately 10,000 square meters. The city hall's ambition is to transform this area into a creative and residential quarter.

The costs for the construction of apartment buildings on Lucemburská, Vrabčí streets, and between Vrabčí and Na Svahu streets are estimated by the city hall to be 750 million crowns. The construction of a parking garage at the corner of Františkovská and Na Rybníčku streets will likely cost an additional 300 to 400 million crowns. The town hall wants to build it on the edge of this area. It hopes to eliminate parking spaces that are currently on the streets within this area. Currently, this area is practically one large parking lot.