The Sosnowiec project to transform the former Kazimierz-Juliusz mine site has received as much as PLN 70 million in funding. Thanks to these funds, the former industrial buildings, such as the shaft tower, the rescue station building and the hoisting machine, will soon undergo extensive renovation and be given a new life.
“The changes will start sooner than many people might expect, because we already have the documentation prepared by the PAS Projekt studio. This will allow us to launch the tender in just a few weeks’ time,“ enthuses Arkadiusz Chęciński.
In the future, educational facilities, a crèche and a kindergarten, which will be relocated from their current locations in Kazimierz Górniczy, as well as a business incubator, will be created on the post-mining sites. Plans also include the creation of catering and recreational spaces that will attract residents on a daily basis, not just during occasional events.
Most modifications will involve the BHP complex, which consists of the guildhall, bathhouse, lamp room and offices. It is here that an incubator for the Zagłębie Entrepreneurship Park, a kindergarten, a crèche and a playground will be created. The hoist tower will be transformed into a viewing point, while the rescue station building will be given a new function as office space, including for NGOs. The former hoisting machine of the K-1 shaft will become a catering outlet, and the workshop will be transformed into a service and office space. All this will be complemented by carefully planned landscaping.
The next step in the transformation of the post-industrial area will be the handover of 338 plots of land by the Mine Restructuring Company (SRK) to the city, which amounts to almost 40 hectares of land. These activities are aimed at revitalising the Kazimierz and Porąbka districts and giving the area new functions.
The history of the mine dates back to the second half of the 19th century. In 1874, in the area of the village of Porąbka, the Warsaw Association of Coal Mines and Smelting Plants began mining coal in the Kazimierz opencast mine. The first coal extraction at the Juliusz plant took place in 1914. The two plants were merged before World War II and Kazimierz-Juliusz later became the last active mine in the Dąbrowa Basin, which ceased operations in 2015. After closure, some of the buildings were demolished and the remaining buildings were taken over by the city.
The total budget allocated for the investment is almost PLN 100 million.
Source: sosnowiec.pl
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