Three companies are pursuing the extension of the Small Spa in Náchod

Náchod - Three companies have applied for the competition for a construction firm to complete the unfinished project of the Small Spa with a colonnade in the Běloves district of Náchod. The estimated price of the contract is 11.85 million crowns excluding VAT. Nina Adlof, a spokesperson for the town hall, said today that the winning company would be announced by the end of March.

"We need to check and evaluate the offers. The chosen construction firm could start work in April, and it could be finished within six months, that is, in September or October," Adlof told ČTK.

This would mean nearly a year’s delay compared to the original schedule. The thirteen million crown European grant that the city received for the construction is not jeopardized by the postponement of the deadline.

The construction was started in the autumn of the year before last by the company Green Project. They brought the construction to just under halfway, but were unable to complete it. The company handed over the construction site in the form of a rough construction back to the city at the end of last year. The city has imposed a contractual penalty of over a million crowns on Green Project. According to the town hall spokesperson, the company has not yet paid it.

The construction of the Small Spa is the first step towards the revival of spa services in Náchod after more than 20 years. The project, valued at around 20 million crowns, involves the restoration and utilization of the historic area of the Small Spa. The town hall has already found a new source of mineral water for the spa in the Běla and Jan wells located on city-owned land in the area.

The center of the revived Small Spa area will be a replica of the original first-republic villa Komenský, which will host an exhibition about the history of spa services and a café. A new colonnade with a mineral spring brought from the new wells is also planned to be built next to it.

The Small Spa is located approximately half a kilometer in a straight line from the main spa area in Bělovsi, which is in private hands and has been closed and decaying since 1996. This area is also expected to have a better future. The area’s new owner became the Prague company IDA SpaMed the year before last, which subsequently declared interest in restoring the spa.