The council had a project for the reconstruction of the Zelný trh prepared

Brno - Brno's Vegetable Market - one of the three main city squares - is to serve less for parking and more for social gatherings. This is accounted for in the planned reconstruction. The city council approved a contract this week for the preparation of project documentation. It will cost 648,000 crowns, while the estimated costs for the square’s repair are 54 million crowns. The city aims to obtain about 40 million crowns of this amount from European funds, said the mayor's deputy Robert Kotzian (ODS) to journalists today.
The project aims to develop an earlier study by the RAW studio, which the city council had previously approved. The study anticipates that fruits and vegetables will continue to be sold at the Vegetable Market - a tradition of seven hundred years. However, a new arrangement of stalls is anticipated. The location of each stall will be marked by a bronze point embedded at floor level. The points will be numbered. "This will create a simple system clarifying the system of pedestrian routes in the square," the architects stated in the study.
The design of the stalls is also set to change. They will consist of a collapsible aluminum structure clad in tropical wood, with a square umbrella being possible to place in the middle. The architects designed the structure to be easily disassembled and the stalls moved away.
There should also be less parking in the square in the future. According to the authors of the study, parked cars detract from the space's impression, and this was criticized by Brno residents in a survey as one of the elements tainting the market.
A new dynamic is to be introduced to the space in front of the Moravian Museum. Builders are to divide it into three levels to adjust for the slope. There should be a resting nook with trees, benches, and three simple fountains. "This would create a resting place allowing pedestrians in the square to relax, observe the hustle and bustle of the market, or possibly consume purchased fruit," the authors of the study noted.
Initially, there was consideration for underground parking at the Vegetable Market. A private investor wanted to build garages below the pavement level. However, due to public opposition, the representatives did not give their consent to the project. Activists opposing the garages feared that the construction would damage the historic cellar, into which Brno has invested tens of millions of crowns, and the Baroque fountain. Critics of the project also rejected the proposed ramp to the garages with traffic lights, claiming it would deface the Vegetable Market.