Bidders to be invited for tender to rebuild Katowice train station

The authorities of Katowice are to call a tender for the general reconstruction of the city's main railway station and its premises, announced the city's Mayor, Piotr Uszok. The estimated cost of the investment is zł. 500 million - zł. 900 million. In 2000 the Katowice local authorities signed a letter of intent founding a company comprising the city, PKP and ING Real Estate, but decided to withdraw from the agreement early this year without any official justification. The potential investor will be chosen in a two-stage open tender, and the winner would lease the station building and all the adjacent land from PKP for 30 years with the possibility to extend the contract. According to PKP, the revenues from the lease will not fall below the annual revenues of zł. 1.5 million the facility currently yields. The exact date of the tender's launch remains unknown. (www.biznes.onet.pl) J.K.