Magistrát města Ostravy
Prokešovo náměstí 8
729 30 Ostrava
On the non-urgent green line you can 24 hours report troubles or damages on public beneficial devices, f.ex. damaged benches, ticket automats, timetables, street lights out of order or traffic signals on crossings, troubles with distribution or water nets, impassable pavements, untreated green. Citizens can report black dump, found dead animals and other things there, too.
The City of Ostrava has launched a new subsidy programme to help tackle the local housing shortage. The programme supports the creation of new apartments in residential or non-residential buildings that have been vacant for a long time, which will help increase the range of rental accommodation on the market (including affordable housing options).
This year’s “Friendly Local Authority” competition featured 130 Czech municipalities and Prague municipal districts. Run by the Interior Ministry, the competition has been held annually for the past 8 years. Its purpose is to identify which towns and cities are best at communicating with their citizens and providing user-friendly services.
The Czech Chamber of Architects has nominated the conversion of Ostrava’s city slaughterhouse for the Mies van der Rohe Award – the EU’s prize for contemporary architecture. The historic slaughterhouse has been transformed into the home of the PLATO art gallery. The winner of the award will be selected by the European Commission in conjunction with the Spanish Mies van der Rohe Foundation.
Ostrava is launching a new web portal where members of the public can find data about the city, clearly displayed in the form of interactive maps, visualizations, tables and other formats. The portal gives citizens easy access to key data about life in Ostrava.
On 11 October, the Czech developer Contera formally opened the new Organica building in Ostrava. The grand opening of this smart building was organized in conjunction with the Scandinavian IT giant Tietoevry, a key player in digital services and software development. The ceremony was also attended by leading political figures, including the Mayor of Ostrava and the Governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region.
At the September session of the City Assembly, representatives approved a new municipal ordinance defining the coefficients that are used to calculate local property taxes. From 1 January 2024, the local coefficient for Ostrava will be set at 1.7 for zones of heavy industry.
The project to modernize the Poruba Sports Centre is now complete, and the complex offers state-of-the-art modern facilities for a wide range of sports activities. The reconstruction work also created new roadways and walkways as well as all essential facilities for users.
EXPO REAL is one of the world’s premier investment events, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from over 70 countries all around the world. This year, Ostrava will again participate as part of the “Czech Cities & Regions” exhibition, held jointly with Prague and the Moravian-Silesian Region.
З 1.7.2023 року відбуваються зміни у наданні допомоги біженцям з України. Ці зміни стосуються, серед іншого, порядку надання житла.
In June 2023, the rating agency Moody's updated the City of Ostrava's credit rating, confirming its score as Aa3 with negative outlook.
The City of Ostrava’s draft budget for 2023 will comprise 14.318 billion CZK in total, of which 34.3% will go to investment projects. The City’s capital budget for next year (including loan capital) will be the largest in Ostrava’s history, at 4.908 billion CZK.
The City of Ostrava is launching a new grant programme to support private owners of real estate, with the aim of breathing new life into buildings that have been empty and unused for a long time while also expanding the available range of rental apartments in the city.
The Vitesco Technologies lab will create 30 new jobs, and the neighbouring Lumax Industries Limited R&D centre will create a further 20 jobs – helping to expand the range of options for science and technology graduates in Ostrava.
The Dubina public transport terminal is set to undergo a major transformation. Planting of new greenery began in September; it will help make the terminal a more pleasant place to be as well as improving public spaces for all citizens.
The Medical Faculty at the University of Ostrava has opened a new training centre at a cost of more than 250 million CZK. The centre will simulate a range of hospital situations, enabling future medics and other health care specialists to gain valuable experience before entering a real hospital environment.
When complete, the hospital’s new hyperbaric oxygen chamber will be able to treat around 30% more patients than previously, and the Hyperbaric Medicine Centre will rank among the most modern facilities of its type in the country.
Contera has completed the first two buildings at its new development Contera Park Ostrava D1 in the city’s Hrušov district. The buildings will be used primarily for light industrial production and warehousing.
Work on a new garden has now been completed at the revitalized former city slaughterhouse complex, which has been converted into the home of the Plato contemporary art gallery.
A unique new combined transport terminal has now opened at Ostrava Airport Multimodal Park, part of the Mošnov Industrial Zone. The terminal will facilitate the shift away from road transport and towards rail freight.
After 25 days of intense work, a team of ten people headed by the Ostrava street artist Bogy completed a brand-new mural on a retaining wall flanking the road above Baník Ostrava’s Bazaly football stadium.
