In the center of Brno, another parking garage for 361 cars will be built

Brno - Another parking garage for 361 cars will be built in the center of Brno. After about six years of negotiations, it will rise on Panenská Street near the International hotel, with which the city hall has reached an agreement. The construction is scheduled to start in spring 2014. The building will cost approximately 190 million crowns without VAT, said Vladimíra Navrátilová from the Brněnské komunikace company, which is preparing the project.
     The city had struggled for a long time to agree with the hotel on the connection to Husova Street, from which the entrance and exit to the garage will be made. "In addition to the agreement, a zoning decision has now been issued, so nothing stands in the way of the construction," said the mayor of Brno-střed, Libor Šťástka. The parking garage will have eight above-ground and two underground floors and will fill the unused space between the International hotel and the Museum of Applied Arts of the Moravian Gallery.
     The construction of the parking garage could, according to a previous statement by Mayor Roman Onderka (ČSSD), help in the sale of the Jalta building, which the city hall has unsuccessfully offered for several years. Unresolved parking issues have deterred some interested parties in the past. Thanks to the parking garage, parking on Dominikánské náměstí in front of the New Town Hall will likely be canceled. "The space will thus regain the appearance of a square," Onderka noted.
     The parking garage on Panenská is not the only place in the center of Brno where drivers can newly leave their cars. Currently, underground garages are also being built near the Janáček Theatre. They will offer more than 300 spaces and are expected to be ready by the beginning of 2014.