Scissors bite into the Glass Hell, the black structure will disappear in a few days

By May 25th, the main building should be down. Then the demolition of other objects will continue, they must be gone, we will not stop building. I know that we will get a building permit and at the end of the summer we will break ground on the new building, said Ivan Hlavek, CEO of the InterCora development group.

Of all the buildings that now stand in this area, only the erpac station will remain. I’m going to take it down, the rest will go to the ground.

In the last month of demolition, the company first removed the ground structures around the main building, pulled down the insulation, removed the windows and all large glass surfaces. Today, the girls first bit into the wall made of aerated concrete in this area. There was a crunch, a cloud of dust rose, and construction material began to fall to the ground. At that moment, streams of water from two cisterns began to flow into the ruined city.

One of the co-owners of the demolition company, Petr Bezina, compared the demolished seven-story building to a large cardboard box. Some places are aerated concrete, some concrete, others bricks. We didn’t start demolishing, we sampled the building where the materials are. That took msc. First, we will demolish the fence where the foam concrete is. Then we will continue by sections, by columns from top to bottom, we will proceed towards the eca. It won’t be like in the movies, where buildings are demolished by a big ball. Coincidentally, we also got involved in the building of the first demolished area, we did the ground work there, Petr Bezina summarized.

The company’s employees immediately dismantled the material on site, which the company gradually removed. Recycling will go through the hole.

Even the mayor of Doubravec, Tom Soukup, did not miss the last days of Carimex. We have been riding this boat for my entire political career, don’t be afraid to be honest. As a district, we actively entered into it when he slipped out and secured it. Around 90 people lived in it, and those were homeless or squatters. We tried to get them not only out of here, but also home. Over half of them were foreigners. It’s a double whammy for me this year. In addition to the demolition of Carimex, the demolition of the nearby Pavla’s house in Jaten should begin this year, Soukup said.

The vacated and fenced Pavlaov house will fall together with other buildings in the vicinity due to the preparation of the road of the eastern city ring road. In 10 years, the latter should connect the inflow from Karlovy Vary with the built-up st dlnino pivade from Ernice. The ring road will divert thousands of cars from the city center, which you just pass through.

The demolition of the shameful and never approved Carimex building from the 90s of the last century near the main road between the city center and the streets in Prague is one of the city’s conditions for the representative to agree to the sale of city land to a developer. We are now witnessing the symbolic end of the era of the nineties and the long court cases that are connected with this area. As soon as the investor fulfills the conditions, i.e. demolishes the building, I am ready to submit to the council a proposal for an additional memorandum, probably in April, that we will develop the necessary municipal land for him, said Mayor Roman Zarzyck.

Business center, offices, apartments

The municipal land investor needs to heal the land and be able to build again. Ivan Hlavek said that they would like to open a shopping center in the city of Glass Hell in the fifth year. Then they start building offices and apartments. The whole area should be newly built in 2031, the company said, that it could be two.

According to the mayor of Soukup, it is necessary for this St. Doubravky to have offices in other houses and for people to live here. It is necessary that not only a shop should be created, but the building of an apartment should give it life. When you don’t live near a shopping center, it’s a problem. This is an example of the nearby shopping center in Rokycansk, where you sweat at night, meet there driftai, said the mayor of Soukup.

He pointed out that the removal of Carimex is one of the steps to allow the swimming pool to open in the immediate vicinity of the demolished area.

Arel Carimex began to be established at the end of the 90s of the last century, when the entrepreneur built the upper floors of the building without a building permit. The building authority did not approve the building, moreover, municipal land was covered with buildings.

Years of litigation ended with the purchase of private land by the building developer (the companies InterCora, RP Letn and MS Letn), who in 2022 concluded an agreement on equality and cooperation with the city. Demolition of the building is a condition for the city to sell its land to the developer.

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