Development
New projects, brownfields and the development schemes reshaping the city.
The Concrete Plant on Rohanský ostrov Now Has an End Date. What Replaces It Has Not Been Approved by Anyone
TBG Metrostav says the batching plant closes in 2028. Prague 8 wants the site opened as a city farm inside a future Maniny park the size of Stromovka — and says in the same breath that this is a vision for the land, not a permitted scheme.
The City Has Picked the Architects for a Thousand Rental Flats at Nové Dvory
Pražská developerská společnost chose re:architekti and Apropos Architects out of thirty studios for the blocks around a metro D station that is not due to open before the second half of 2032. Two more buildings, sitting directly on top of the station, are still being prepared.
The 4.79-Billion Rebuild Nobody Is Meant to Notice
Reconstruction of the old water line at Prague's central wastewater treatment plant on Císařský ostrov starts on 1 October and runs 43 months. A consortium led by SMP Construction has the contract; the 2019 line takes the whole city's sewage in the meantime.
Barrandov Gets a Secondary School on Paper, on Land the District Already Owns
Praha 5's development committee has seen the concept study for a 480-pupil secondary school on the triangle between Högerova, K Barrandovu and Štěpařská. The district took the study off the city's hands to speed the preparation up.
Smíchov City's Investor Will Pay 120 Million Towards the School the District Could Not Afford
Hrotano Czech has given the City of Prague a donation the city assembly accepted last week. Prague 5 handed the 1.16-billion primary school over to the city in July because building it exceeded what a district can carry.
Prague Lends Praha 7 the Last 166 Million for a School It Cannot Fill Yet
City councillors approved a repayable 165.8-million-crown advance to Praha 7 for the Jan Vodňanský primary school on Jankovcova, closing the financing on a 903-million-crown building. The district's six schools are full; its own demographic study expects 4,500 school-age children by 2029.
A New Pavilion at Zlíchov More Than Doubles a School Prague Has Too Few Of
The city has finished the new pavilion at the primary school for pupils with specific behavioural disorders at Zlíchov, lifting first-stage capacity from 50 pupils to 120. It is fully barrier-free, it brings the school the gym it never had, and the next stage — rebuilding the older building — starts now.
Five Billion, Three Years and a Bribery Case: the Oncology Centre at Motol Opens
The National Oncology Centre at Motol and Na Homolce opened on 9 September at a cost of CZK 4.96 billion, most of it EU money from the National Recovery Plan. It will lift the hospital's oncology capacity by 40 percent. Its construction outlasted the hospital management that started it, a corruption investigation and a fire in the new cladding a week before the ribbon.
Prague Trades Land at the Main Station for the Ground the Philharmonic Stands On
Councillors approved a swap with Správa železnic on 7 September: the railway gets plots in Nové Město and Vinohrady for the main station's departure hall, the city gets the Holešovice land it needs for the concert hall, and the railway pays 152 million crowns for the difference.
A Greyhound Track on Plzeňská Becomes Prague's Missing Western Athletics Stadium
Councillors picked VYSSPA Sports Technology on 7 September to design and build an eight-lane, 400-metre oval on the site the city bought from its own tenant last year. The bid of 70.35 million crowns before VAT came in 10.4 million under the estimate; opening is expected in 2028.
Prague 6 Opens Two School Buildings on the First Day of Term, at a Combined CZK 276m
A passive-standard pavilion on Na Kocínce for 240 pupils and a rebuilt nursery in Liboc for 110 children. The city paid CZK 118m of it; the district found the rest.
Prague Approves a CZK 1.03bn School for 1,152 Pupils at Západní Město, With CZK 112m From Developers
The city council signed off the Stodůlky campus as a new investment on 31 August. Design documentation, a final permission and construction documentation are all in hand. The start date is not.
Prague Files for Permission to Build the Vltava Philharmonic — and for CZK 5bn of Ground Around It
The application went in on 31 August: a CZK 12.33bn concert building plus public space, a new embankment and transport works. Permission is expected in early 2027, construction in early 2028, trial operation in 2033 — with state funding still unsettled.
Prague 14 Breaks Ground on a CZK 950m School at Jahodnice After Two Stopgaps
Eighteen homerooms for 540 pupils on U Hostavického potoka, built design-and-build by Metrostav, with CZK 350m from the city. It is the third answer the district has given to the same shortage in four years.
One Bid, CZK 1.221bn, and Prague 6 Walks Away From Its Cultural Centre Tender
The only offer for the concert hall in the fourth quadrant of Vítězné náměstí came in at half again the expected price. The district will cancel the procedure and re-tender in February 2027.
Palata II Tops Out: 73 Dementia Beds in Košíře, Due April 2027
Prague has formally launched its first mental health centre for seniors, in rented rooms on Starokošířská. The building that is meant to anchor it is already structurally complete next door.
Prague Puts a Listed Farmstead in Suchdol Out to Tender as a CZK 1.07bn Gymnázium
Brandejsův statek gets 12 classrooms for 408 students, two new buildings and a design-and-build contract — while the city police keep their horses on site.
Fourteen Years in the Making, Prague's Metropolitan Plan Takes Effect on 1 September
The document replacing a zoning system conceived a century ago clears the way for 350,000 new homes — and pushes them onto brownfields rather than the open countryside.
Prager's Cubes Come Apart Before They Go Back Together
A 1.4-billion-crown reconstruction of Karel Prager's 1973 complex at Emauzy starts by cataloguing everything worth keeping — then taking the building to pieces rather than knocking it down.
Prague Has Europe's Best-Value Transit and Its Least Affordable Housing
IPR's updated comparison against eleven peer cities finds a metropolis that solved mobility and did not solve where anyone lives — while car ownership climbs anyway.