In České Budějovice, nearly 100 apartments will be created near the Luční weir

České Budějovice - In České Budějovice, 92 new apartments will be built in the Luční jez area. The construction company Swietelsky is building them for the development company Vltavapark. The work will finish no later than November 2018, media representative of Swietelsky, Zdeněk Zuntych, said today. According to ČTK information, the investment is over 200 million crowns.

There are already about a hundred apartments near Luční jez. Another 92 apartments will be created in two five-story buildings shaped like the letter V. Work began in May. Two underground parking levels for 103 cars and 98 storage units will be built under the buildings.

“Years ago, we built here already. So this is a return to a familiar environment. Back then, it was one of the first brownfields in the city as there were abandoned barracks here. Today, few would recognize the place, given how it has transformed,” said Pavel Rouha, the director of the South Earthworks Division of Swietelsky construction, to ČTK. He added that the buildings located near the Vltava River are positioned so that their residential parts are above the level of potential thousand-year floodwaters.

More new housing in České Budějovice will be built by 2020 near the University of South Bohemia, where several buildings with 250 apartments will be constructed. The investor is developer Václav Drchal, and the first apartments will be handed over to the owners at the beginning of 2019; the investor has prioritized offers of accommodation to the university.

The first apartments in the Luční jez area near the center and the Stromovka park were built by Vltavapark in 2004, and more than a hundred have been handed over to clients so far. The newly built apartments with layouts from 2+kk to 6+kk should be received by the owners by mid-2019 at the latest. Instead of a classic arrangement of houses side by side, a "V" shape with greenery in the middle will be created. “Each apartment can also obtain an underground garage, which is a novelty compared to other locations in České Budějovice,” said Zuntych.

More than a third of these apartments have already been reserved. According to Tomáš Hej petr from Eurotime, the company responsible for the construction, several apartment buildings and two to three five-story buildings should still be built here in the future.

The company Swietelsky construction was established in 1992 in České Budějovice as a part of the Austrian construction group Swietelsky. Its original focus on transport and engineering construction was expanded in 1999 to include civil and sports buildings. Today, with a turnover of about five billion crowns and 1300 employees, the company is among the largest construction firms in the country. The civil engineering division has four plants with 250 workers, and its revenues are around 1.5 billion crowns.