Military makeover for Poznań barracks

Budimex Dromex has just entered a building site in Poznań's City Park, an old military complex, located between ul. Wojskowa, Ułańska and Wyspiańskiego.

The company is planning to construct a four-storey horseshoe-shaped complex with some 250 luxurious apartments on 16,000 sqm, 176 parking lots, a recreation center with a swimming pool and perhaps a hotel.

The contractor will pull down the buildings added to the old military complex after the Second World War. Two 19th-century historical building will be renovated and the interiors will be completely changed.

Sławomir Rosolski Architekt, which specializes in designing archaized buildings, is the author of the architectural project. The company behind the investment is City Park, which was established by Konkret.

City Park is being tight lipped about the project and the only information it has revealed is the cost of the investment, zł.66 million. The City Park complex is scheduled for completion by the end of next year. Once finished, the fenced complex of apartments will have a price tag of over zł.7,000 per sqm, making it the most expensive in the city.

City Park is another investment within the city's revitalization program, after the Stary Browar complex. Specialists claim that new residential buildings should be erected closer to the city center. Next to City Park, another developer, Agrobex, is constructing a complex of stylized houses.

Andrzej Wróbel