The congress center will borrow concrete planters for free from Prague 5

Prague - The Prague Congress Center (KCP) will borrow concrete planters with plants and trees from the Prague 5 municipality. KCP will use them to separate the parking lot from the pedestrian zone on the southern side of the building. Michal Kárník, the director of KCP, told ČTK today. Prague 5 acquired the concrete flower pots for a total of approximately 18 million crowns, and local residents protested against their placement in the streets, demanding that they be removed from some areas. Prague 5 relocated them to several locations, such as near the distillery in Zlíchov.
    "The loan of the planters will be free of charge, and we have been promised them for about five to seven years,” Kárník said. KCP is expected to have more than ten of them, and the planters could be moved in August.
    KCP wants to place the concrete flower pots to the south of the main building of the center towards Pankrácké Square. According to Kárník, they will replace the current planters that KCP uses to separate the pedestrian area from cars, which are more fragile than those borrowed from Prague 5.
    The municipality began installing large concrete flower pots in the area of Prague 5 in July 2012 as part of the project to reduce immission load by greening the streets. In total, they purchased 245 of them. However, local residents opposed the original placement, claiming that the flower pots created barriers and restricted passage. A petition against the flower pots was also created, which was signed by several hundred people. The municipality then relocated the planters from some streets where they were most problematic.