Kraków Station up for grabs next year

The Mayor of Kraków, Jacek Majchrowski, and the president of PKP, Andrzej Wach, signed a preliminary document concerning both parties' cooperation over PKP properties located in Kraków. The agreement will give Kraków more influence on the form of investment in PKP's assets.

In the next 11 weeks PKP and the City of Kraków will prepare a list of real estate that will be subject to common operations, which will include the building housing Kraków's main railway station and a station in Swoszowice. Kraków's Mayor will also decide on the future function of the city's railway station, which was built in 1847. The building could be used for public or commercial uses, and it is worth in the region of zł.18 million. PKP is to move out from the station by the beginning of next year and then a tender will be announced to select the buyer or tenant.

The Mayor of Kraków also signed a document with Krzysztof Celiński, a member of PKP's board, which will allow for the first stage of the modernization of a fast railway joining Balice airport in Kraków with the city center. The city and the State's Treasury will pass land to PKP PLK on which a railway siding for the Mydliniki-Balice line can be built. PKP PLK will complete the first stage of the investment at their own cost, which is zł.5 million. The total cost of the project, including the second phase, will cost zł.17 million.