Prague 1 is looking for a use for the summer palace on Kampa

Prague - The Prague 1 municipality is looking for a use for the Michnovsky summer palace on Kampa, near the Sovovy mlýny. Interested parties can submit their rental offers until January 13 of next year, with the most important criterion for evaluation being the nature of the proposed use. The city leadership prefers proposals that reflect the connection of the building to Czech culture. The spokesperson for the municipality, Kateřina Písačková, informed ČTK about this, the offer is posted on the website. The heritage-protected building is known from the film How to Drown Dr. Mráček or The End of the Water Men in Bohemia; it previously housed a fish restaurant and the headquarters of the Czech Fishermen's Union.

When evaluating the offers, the office will consider four criteria. The most significant of these is the purpose of the lease, as the city leadership wants the use of the property to correspond to its connection with Czech culture. "We welcome commercial projects that will suitably enhance the genius loci or the connection of the place with significant personalities of the Czech cultural sphere," said Prague 1 councilor David Bodeček (Pirates).

The purpose of the lease will make up half of the overall evaluation, with 35 percent depending on the amount of the proposed rent, 10 percent on the proposal for the renovation of the building, and 5 percent on the proposal for modifications to the attic. Participants in the tender must pay a deposit of 100,000 crowns, with the signing of the contract with the winner expected in March next year.

According to the conditions, the municipality will not lease the building for the operation of a 24-hour bar, nightclub, gaming house, betting office, sex shop, erotic salon, sale of pyrotechnic devices, sale of items with Nazi and communist themes, operation of segways or similar vehicles, or a souvenir shop featuring non-Czech and non-Prague traditions. "Prague 1 does not consider the property suitable for the realization of community and club activities," is also written in the tender conditions.

The originally Renaissance building was first remodeled in the early Baroque period and remodeled again in the mid-19th century in the Neoclassical style. According to the National Heritage Institute website, the building has been heritage-protected since 1958.