Company that owns housing estate applies for permission to demolish 600 homes.
The CPI firm, owner of 600 units at the Janov housing estate and part of billionaire Radovan Vítek’s business empire, has already negotiated with the Litvínov town hall about its plan to demolish the housing estate. The town leadership would prefer the real estate firm repair the units it owns, news server iHNed.cz reports.
Forty years ago, the state razed villages near Litvínov in order to mine brown coal there and moved the residents into the Janov housing estate. Untapped coal reserves also exist beneath the housing estate, and it is now possible that bulldozers will soon be tearing it down.
CPI head Zdeněk Havelka has already presented the firm’s plan to representatives of the Litvínov town hall. “I can imagine a rather heretical idea, which is that the existing tenants would be moved into one block on the housing estate and the rest of the buildings would be demolished,” Havelka told Czech Daily Hospodářské noviny (news server iHNed.cz).
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