Over 2200 people are asking the town hall to save the inn in Prosek

Prague - More than 2200 people are asking the city council to save the U Brabců inn in Old Prosek. They want the building to be purchased from its private owner. The house is awaiting demolition, and a similar one with a restaurant and apartments is to be built in its place. The petition was discussed today by the Prague 9 council. Apart from the inn, only the Church of St. Wenceslas and the rectory remain from the original center of Old Prosek.

According to the deputy mayor of the district, Marek Doležal (TOP 09), the city has negotiated with the owner, who has revised proposals for new construction according to its requirements several times. The petition is requesting that the city purchase the building. "The owner is asking for 35 to 40 million crowns," added Doležal.

Therefore, the district commissioned an expert assessment to determine the value of the property and the costs of its repair. Then it will negotiate further. According to the representative of the owner, the Prosek 2 company, Jan Stejskal, the building is in poor condition. "That the city will buy it is a utopia," he said today at the council meeting. The study he proposes preserves the original house to the greatest possible extent.

A representative of the petitioners, Renata Klusáková from the Pro Prosek initiative, criticized that the district wants to have the building demolished despite having previously invested tens of millions of crowns from an EU subsidy into the improvement of the public space in its surroundings. "The building is old and surely would be demolished somewhere in a village where there are similar ten. But the situation is different in Prosek," she added.

Old Prosek is a collection of buildings originally of a village character, with the dominant Church of St. Wenceslas, an adjoining rectory, and a cemetery with a baroque bell tower.