Townhouse Restoration [PoWROty Kamienic] – another group of 10 municipal buildings is about to be renovated. Start at Rozbrat

The Townhouse Restoration (an urban revitalisation programme we wrote about also here) has reached Ołbin, specifically Rozbrat Street near the Faculty of Architecture of the Wroclaw University of Technology. ‘These are townhouses with a soul. It is hard to find a graduate in architecture who has not practised drawing on these buildings,’ noted Michał Guz from the Wroclaw City Office.

The building in question is the 16 Rozbrat municipal house. Its modernisation will involve mainly restoring the Art Nouveau decorations on the façade, replacing some of the windows with wooden ones, renovating the balconies, roof and basements, as well as insulating the façade from the courtyard. A contractor is being sought through a tender launched a few days ago.

Nearby, at 12 Rozbrat, a housing association is carrying out renovation with financial participation from the city. ‘Townhouses of housing associations make up the majority in our city. We are delighted that their owners and managers also increasingly often decide to renovate them. This benefits not only the tenants but also the whole Wroclaw, which simply becomes more beautiful,’ stressed the Deputy Mayor of Wroclaw Michał Młyńczak.

Michał Młyńczak, Deputy Mayor of Wroclaw: ‘This time, we are launching a package of renovations of the city's townhouses in an area where the work of  housing communities and their managers is already clearly visible, too.’

Nine communal buildings at Sępa-Szarzyńskiego and courtyards

In addition to 16 Rozbrat, this package includes numbers at Sępa-Szarzyńskiego Street: 43, 47, 59, 61, 65, 65a, 68, 69 and 73.

‘By the end of August we should have full design documentation for them. We will then go on to select a contractor for the construction work,’ said Monika Tendaj-Bielawska, President of Wrocławskie Mieszkania. ‘Apart from the buildings, we are renovating the courtyard interiors in the area,’ she added.

• A renovation, with EU funding of PLN 167,000 (European Funds Closer to the People of Lower Silesia), is about to coming to an end at 16 Rozbrat Street, in the Rozbrat – Prusa – Sępa-Szarzyńskiego triangle.
• Work is underway, with EU funding of PLN 900,000 (European Funds Closer to the People of Lower Silesia) in the courtyard in the quarter of Sępa Szarzyńskiego, Prusa, Wyszyńskiego and Sienkiewicza; the date of completion is scheduled for this year.
• Wrocławskie Mieszkania has planned (after townhouses at Sępa) the renovation of the courtyard in the quarter of Sępa-Szarzyńskiego, Chemiczna, Ukryta and Sienkiewicza.

Izabela Duchnowska, chairwoman of the Nadodrze housing estate administration and city councillor: ‘We have recently met in the Brochów estate on the occasion of the announcement of the renovation of townhouses in that area. We are now in Ołbin, at the two buildings in Rozbrat, but also at the almost completed courtyard at the back of these townhouses. I want to thank the residents strongly for their involvement. They reported many comments before and during the renovation. I think their participation is worth appreciating, as many courtyards in the Old Town are renovated from the Wroclaw Civic Budget, which we are very happy about.

Townhouse Restoration in figures

The Townhouse Restoration programme includes 100 communal townhouses from Ołbin, Nadodrze, Przedmieście Oławskie, Kleczków, Plac Grunwaldzki, Brochów, etc. Their refurbishments, worth around PLN 250 million, are scheduled until 2029.

Currently, 19 city tenements are under modernisation, including those under the care of the Municipal Resource Administration in Wroclaw, at the cost of more than PLN 40 million.