The purchase of the cleared building of the Town Hall of Prague 10 has attracted interest from 11 entities

Prague - In response to the call from Prague 10 for offers to purchase the former Vršovice Town Hall, the Eden cultural center, and adjacent land, 11 entities reacted. The spokesperson for the city district, Ján Bruno Tropp, informed ČTK about this today. The town hall also issued another call for the purchase or long-term lease of a building for the purposes of the city district's headquarters, to which, according to the spokesperson, six offers were received. Currently, the Prague 10 office is located in rented spaces on Vinohradská Street, to which it had to move due to the emergency condition of the original town hall.

The leadership of the city district plans to coordinate the search for a permanent solution for the office's headquarters with the intention to sell the Vršovice building known as Vlasta along with the nearby, also vacant cultural center and surrounding land. "At the beginning of the entire process, we clearly stated that a purchase offer and an offer for a new headquarters must meet," said Deputy Mayor Tomáš Pek (TOP 09).

Details about the offers cannot yet be made public according to the spokesperson. They will now be evaluated by the consulting company PwC, which previously prepared an analysis of possible further steps for a new headquarters for the city district. If an acceptable solution emerges from the evaluation, it will be addressed by the authorities of the city district. "The leadership of the city district expects that the preparation of documents for a decision regarding the future town hall headquarters will take until the end of the year," said the spokesperson.

Initially, the city district wanted to renovate its town hall building. The estimated cost of the renovation was about 1.1 billion crowns, but due to delays in starting the project, according to previous statements from town hall representatives, the increase in prices in construction and other costs has raised it to 1.86 billion. The city district also missed deadlines for an interest-free loan from the magistrate and a grant from the State Environmental Fund. The PwC study then showed, according to the town hall leadership, that the total costs for the renovation, including securing alternative spaces and other expenses, would be 2.6 billion crowns, which is economically the least advantageous route.

Since the end of last year, the city district office has been located in an office building on Vinohradská Street, where, according to previous information, it pays Carpet Invest 2.9 million crowns without VAT in monthly rent, and another roughly 1 million constitutes monthly deposits. The maximum lease period is seven years. The chosen approach is criticized by the opposition Pirates and ANO, who claim that the city district is depriving itself of a strategic property that the city could use by selling its town hall.

According to the number of residents, Prague 10 is the second largest city district in Prague after Prague 4, with approximately 110,000 people living there. It consists of the entire Vršovice and parts of the cadastral areas of Strašnice, Malešice, Záběhlice, Michle, Vinohrady, Hrdlořezy, Hloubětín, and Žižkov. Since November 2022, the city district has been governed by a coalition Together for Prague 10 (ODS and TOP 09), the local grouping Vlasta, and STAN with KDU-ČSL.