Wrocław tenements set for facelift

Wrocław's City Hall wants to designate zł.24 million for the renovation of a hundred communal tenements in 2007. The list of the buildings is ready and the new city council must now accept next year's budget so the plan can go ahead.

In this year's budget the city assigned zł.2 million for the documentation process, which started several months ago. There will be a tender for the job and works should be launched next spring and last for four years.

"After the wave of infrastructure investments in Wrocław, we would like to prepare a larger program for the renovation of facades because Wrocław's strength is the densely built tenements with rich architectural details. Hence, we have chosen buildings in several parts of the city and we are preparing the documentation, designs and inventories of the buildings," said Wrocław's deputy mayor, Adam Grehl. "Usually it will be connected with the renovation of the roof, the facade, the staircase and windows. Currently the program includes just a few buildings, but the idea is to do it on a larger scale."

Among other streets the new program will include about 100 tenements on ul. Dubois, Drobnera, Krupnicza, Szczytnicka, Curie-Skłodowskiej, and Jednoœci Narodowej streets.

So far the city, along with Kogeneracja, the city's heating provider, has been renovating tenements, replacing their heating systems and refurbishing their facades. Now the scale of the works will be enlarged.