Brno - Monday is to see opening of the highest post-1989 building in Brno. A residential and business centre called Eden is the first in a row of changes that Brno is to undergo in the next years.
The southern part of the city is to hold local Manhattan which will have two buildings over 80 meters. There will be shops, office space and restaurants.
But the Eden complex, which has 54 meters, was built in a different part of the city where the city hall would like to see more skyscrapers. The complex that is built in Purkyňova street in Královo Pole district cost its investor Prosperity almost CZK 0.5 billion.
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High up offices and housing
The building that is the highest post-1989 building after the M-Palác accommodates 114 apartments, 12 shops and 8 offices on 16 floors.
The city authorities do not want Eden to be the only high-rise in the city. "I hope that it is the first step for more and even higher buildings in Brno. The first real Brno skyscrapers will be built in the southern part of the city," said Brno's Mayor Roman Onderka.
And that is what investors are indeed planning to do in the next few years. The AZ Tower building with its 85 meters and 25 floors will be also built by Prosperity firm. It will be the highest building in Brno and one of the six highest skyscrapers in the country (four of them are in Prague, one in Most).
Only two of them are over 100 meters high. Another high-rise building - a two-tower skyscraper that was planned by CTP Invest with Spielberk Office Center ran into trouble.
Slower economy against the skyscrapers
The construction has been suspended and should not start until the next year. According to director of CTP Invest Remon L. Vos, the Czech economy has slowed down and the buildings the firm built downtown is not fully rented yet and therefore it makes no sense to invest in a new skyscraper.
The city council already marked so called active zones where the investors are allowed to construct buildings higher than 50 meters. The center of the city is the only exception. "Nothing can be higher than the church in the center," said Onderka earlier.
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