Rozhovor Petra Urbánka, ředitele Pražské developerské společnosti, pro MF Dnes. Celý článek si přečtete níže.

Rozhovor Petra Urbánka, ředitele Pražské developerské společnosti, pro MF Dnes. Celý článek si přečtete níže.

Ve středu 27. ledna 2021 zahájil svou činnost Investiční expertní výbor Pražské developerské společnosti (PDS). Jde o poradní orgán PDS, který bude nezávisle posuzovat připravované projekty, diskutovat možná rizika a případně doporučovat vhodná řešení. Členství v Expertním výboru, který se bude scházet minimálně dvakrát ročně, přijali na základě nominace navržené I. náměstkem primátora doc. Ing. arch. Petrem Hlaváčkem a schválené usnesením Rady hlavního města Prahy č. 1549, renomovaní odborníci Martin Bendík, Jaromír Hainc, Martin Hvězda, Lukáš Kohl a Miroslav Singer. Úvodní lednové setkání řídil Petr Urbánek, ředitel PDS. Další pracovní setkání je předběžně plánováno na červen 2021.

„Členy Expertního výboru PDS se stali vynikající odborníci z oblasti ekonomie (Miroslav Singer), realitního práva (Martin Bendík), urbanismu (Jaromír Hainc), architektury, developmentu a nemovitostní analýzy (Lukáš Khol) a z pohledu stavebních nákladů a organizace výstavby (Martin Hvězda). Ceníme si jejich zkušeností a těšíme se na jejich nezávislý pohled na připravované projekty především městského nájemního bydlení,“ říká Petr Urbánek, ředitel PDS.

„Je to další důležitý krok v celém fungování této městské organizace. Věřím, že vybraní odborníci vnesou nové pohledy na organizaci a ekonomické parametry městem připravovaných projektů,“ doplňuje Petr Hlaváček, první náměstek primátora Hlavního města Prahy.

Pražská developerská společnost (PDS) byla založena k 1. červnu 2020 jako příspěvková organizace Hlavního města Prahy a sídlí v tzv. Radničních domech v Praze 1. V čele PDS stojí ředitel, jímž byl od 1. října 2020 jmenován Petr Urbánek. Cílem PDS je zhodnocení nemovitostních aktiv Hl. m. Prahy a příprava projektů především městského nájemního bydlení. PDS bylo rozhodnutím Zastupitelstva MHMP předáno k hospodaření cca 400 000 m² pozemků ve vlastnictví MHMP, na nichž se počítá s výstavbou 6.000 – 8.000 bytů v horizontu až 10 let.

The Investment Expert Committee of Pražská developerská společnost has started its operation

The Investment Expert Committee of Pražská developerská společnost started its operation on January 27, 2021. It is an advisory body of PDS which will be independently assessing projects under development, discussing potential risks and possibly recommending suitable solutions. The following renowned experts accepted membership in the Investment Expert Committee, which will meet at least twice a year, on the basis of nomination by doc. Ing. Arch. Petr Hlaváček, first deputy mayor, and agreed on the resolution of the Prague City Council no. 1549: Martin Bendík, Jaromír Hainc, Martin Hvězda, Lukáš Kohl and Miroslav Singer. The opening meeting in January was chaired by Petr Urbánek, managing director of PDS. The next workshop is pre-scheduled in June 2021.

“Highly skilled specialists from the field of economy (Miroslav Singer), real-estate law (Martin Bendík), urbanism (Jaromír Hainc), architecture, development and real estate analysis (Lukáš Khol) and construction costs and construction organization (Martin Hvězda) became members of the PDS committee. We appreciate their experience and an independent view of the projects under development mostly of municipal rental housing,” said Petr Urbánek, managing director of PDS.

“It is another important step in the whole functioning of this municipal organization. I believe that the appointed experts will bring a new perspective to the projects under development,” adds Petr Hlaváček, the first deputy mayor of the City of Prague.

Pražská developerská společnost (PDS) was established on June 1, 2020 as a municipality-funded organization of the City of Prague and it is based in Radniční domy in Prague 1. At the forefront is Petr Urbánek appointed on October 1, 2020. The aim of PDS is the appreciation of real-estate assets of the City of Prague and the preparation of projects of mostly municipal rental housing. By decision of the council, PDS received ca 400,000 sqm of land owned by the City of Prague for management and 6,000 – 8,000 flats are expected to be built there in a time horizon of up to 10 years.

In early October, Petr Urbánek was named director of the Prague Development Company (PDS), a brand-new, publicly-funded entity whose establishment marks a fresh effort by the city to add to its limited stock of public housing. It’s been clear for years now that prices for flats in the Czech capital were rising beyond the budgets of the middle class. That’s not just a problem for the private developers who are running out of people to sell to: the resulting lack of diversity is becoming a threat to the functioning of the city itself, since essential workers (including nurses, emergency service professionals or teachers) don’t tend to be paid very well.

That’s why most European cities have built up stocks of public housing or at least rent-controlled apartments, but they’ve done this over a period of decades. Not Prague, though. The city sold off most of its residential assets in wave after wave of privatizations beginning in the 1990’s in the rush to embrace what it saw as a market economy. This may have had substantial benefits for thousands of families, but it leaves the city itself with few options to provide help where it’s needed.

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Pražská developerská společnost, kterou založil pražský magistrát, začala pracovat na přípravě prvních projektů na městských pozemcích. Největší z nich jsou na Palmovce a na Nových Dvorech.

Nyní firma ve spolupráci s městským Institutem plánování a rozvoje finalizuje vytipování vhodných pozemků a zahajuje jednání o projektech. „Naší vizí je, že by v Praze mělo v budoucnu vznikat zhruba 10 000 bytů ročně. S tím, že městská výstavba by měla být zhruba kolem 2000,“ řekl náměstek primátora Petr Hlaváček (za TOP 09). Město podle něj také finišuje metodiku, podle které by měly městské části jednat s developery o jejich příspěvcích do veřejných rozpočtů.

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Pražská developerská společnost established by the Prague City Council has launched preparation of the first projects on municipal land. The largest projects are in the location of Palmovka and Nové Dvory.

Currently the organization is finishing identification of suitable land and starting negotiation about the projects in cooperation with the Prague Institute of Planning and Development. “Our vision is that approximately 10,000 flats should be built in Prague per year, while municipal construction should include about 2,000 of them,” said Petr Hlaváček, deputy mayor (TOP 09). He also adds that the city council is finishing a methodology according to which the individual municipal districts should negotiate with developers about their contributions to public budgets. 

The deputy mayor mentions the largest identified land in the vicinity of Palmovka metro station, which is in the ownership of the Prague City Council, the Municipal District of Prague 8 and Dopravní podnik hlavního města Prahy. A smaller quarter with a park should be built there in the future. Other large plots are situated in the location where the new D metro line station of Nové Dvory is planned to be built. The deputy mayor says that a local centre with housing, shops and a house of culture should be constructed there. “These are two typical examples that have not yet been resolved for a long time,” says the deputy mayor.

He adds that in both cases changes in the urban development plan are being prepared and that specific investment projects including what will be built, for how much money and when it is going to be built on the land should be elaborated before the end of the parliamentary term in 2022. Besides, Pražská developerská společnost will deal with other municipal land, the list of which will be published by the city council soon, adds Hlaváček.

According to the deputy mayor during negotiations with developers, the city council started to use a newly elaborated methodology defining calculations of the contribution that companies should pay for the building of public infrastructure and facilities. The municipal districts often enter into agreements about similar contributions with companies, however, the methodology, which should be approved at the beginning of the new year, should provide a uniform framework. Nowadays, the agreements have no legal definition, but it should appear within a construction act under development in the form of a planning contract. The deputy mayor said that the solution of the city council complied with legislation.

The city has been coping with a housing crisis and rising housing prices. The role of Pražská developerská společnost should consist in the preparation of a concept of projects for socially useful purposes on municipal land and taking care of them throughout the approval process ending with the planning permit and a building permit. The implementation stage itself should be carried out in collaboration with the private sector, cooperatives or construction communities. The goal is to boost house building in the city and to accelerate the preparation of projects, which currently often takes more than ten years.

Pražská developerská společnost was established on June 1st and it is responsible for the preparation of municipal land for construction with a focus on housing, including coordination with private investors and municipal districts. Hlaváček said that the organization has eight employees and expects to have twenty of them during the following year.

At the end of this year´s May establishment of Pražská developerská společnost (PDS), a new state-funded organization of the City of Prague, was approved. The organization will be in charge of the preparation of municipal housing projects and development of land and locations that are primarily owned by the city. PDS has just started to work independently.

The goal of the future months is to prepare several specific housing projects for territorial proceedings in such a manner that they meet current requirements and specification of the city, that they are economically efficient in terms of construction costs and future long-term operation and that they have a high architectural quality.

PDS is based in the city centre in Radniční domy (Town Hall Houses) in the close vicinity of the New Town Hall. “We already have a basic team but further interested persons experienced in the field of real estate, development and construction are welcome,” says Tomáš Veselý, deputy director of the Prague City Council director who is temporarily in charge of management of PDS.

“The role of PDS will be mostly a land-developer preparing municipal land for construction in the public interest, primarily for rental housing projects. PDS will prepare a concept and perform an approval process up to a planning permit and a building permit. The implementation stage itself should be carried out in collaboration with the private sector, cooperatives or construction communities,” adds Petr Hlaváček, deputy mayor.

Prospects of construction in the Czech city will be one of the topics of an event held by Stavební fórum at the beginning of the autumn conference season. The following experts will be discussing about the near future of the sector of construction and development as well as the whole Czech economy, both in details and in a wider context: Eva Zamrazilová (the Czech Fiscal Council), Radim Passer (Passerinvest Group), Josef Kotrba (Deloitte), Jiří Nouza (SPS) and Petr Hlaváček (the City of Prague). Discussion breakfast called “Česko 2020: hledání cest z krize” (Bohemia 2020: finding a way out of the crisis) takes place on Thursday on August 27 in the gallery of the Café Louvre from 9:00 am to 10:30 am.

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