The proposals for the redevelopment of the former train station in Olomouc will be assessed by experts

Olomouc - The Olomouc City Hall will assess with leading Czech experts in architecture and urbanism how they like the design proposals for the former bus station that the city has received from interested parties for the land in the area. The independent experts will be consulted because the bus station is a valuable location in the city center on the edge of the urban heritage reserve, said Deputy Mayor Martin Novotný to reporters today.
Three interested parties have applied for the land competition: CTP Invest, Zenmex, and Lordship Estates. All proposals include the construction of a mixed-use building, such as apartments, shops, restaurants, or offices. The companies' plans can be viewed at an exhibition in the city hall building on Hynaisova Street.
"This is a topic that is being widely discussed. Therefore, the city council decided to take another step, which is an urban-architectural assessment of individual proposals by independent, non-Olomouc, and as prestigious as possible experts," stated the deputy mayor.
He specified that the city leadership will contact historian and architecture theorist Zdeněk Lukeš, author of a number of administrative and multipurpose complexes Jakub Cígler, and co-author of the originally retail house Máj in Prague, Martin Rajniš.
The proposal to consult independent experts was brought forward by Deputy Mayor Jaromír Czmero. "Partly this was influenced by the statement of the Olomouc conservationists, according to whom it is necessary to pay more attention to the location," Czmero told ČTK.
Jan Kubeš from the Olomouc National Heritage Institute previously told reporters that the mere three displayed proposals are not a sufficient guarantee of the best possible solution that would correspond to the significance of the location.
The city hall decided to announce the intention to rent and subsequently sell the land in the former bus station area at the end of June. One of the city's most important conditions is that the investor must build, in addition to parking spaces for the relevant building, 320 spaces in underground garages.
The former bus station covers an area of nearly 16,000 square meters. The usual price in this location is 5,000 crowns per square meter.
The bus station near the market ceased operations in 1981, when buses were moved to the then-new station in the Hodolany district.

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