The Liberec Tesco department store will not be a monument, it can be demolished

Liberec - The Ministry of Culture has rejected further proposals to include the Liberec Tesco department store among cultural monuments. Therefore, the company MULTI Development, which wants to build a large shopping center named Forum in its place, faces no obstacles in demolition. This is reported by today's Liberecký deník (Deník). The Ministry rejected the proposal to register the building designed by architects Miroslav Masák and Karel Hubáček in 2005.
    “From a formal point of view, our decision was correct, and we did not find any new substantive facts in the new proposals regarding the inclusion of OD Ještěd - Tesco among cultural monuments,” said Jiří Vajčner from the Ministry of Culture to the Deník. The Ministry made its decision in a very short time, although waiting for officials' conclusions can take years. Vajčner justified this by stating that there was an imminent threat of the building's demolition.
    The Liberec department store was built in the late 1970s. The building was constructed as a combined department store, where individual spaces were rented. It actually consists of three buildings, which complicates the delivery of goods and the movement of customers today. The center serves around 100,000 customers weekly. Even Masák himself recently told ČTK that the building reflects its time, and if he were to design the department store today, it would look different.
    The Tesco building is expected to be demolished sometime around the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009.