Three unused buildings of the medical faculty in Pilsen are up for auction this week

by   CIJ News iDesk III
2022-11-28   09:13
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Charles University (Univerzita Karlova) will this week auction three historic buildings abandoned by its medical faculty in Plzeň after moving to a new university campus. The university plans to sell the original dean's office on Husova Street in Plzeň and the listed buildings of the Pavlov Institute on Lidická Street and the Prochásk Institute on Karlovarská Street by electronic auction. The auction will take place on 29 November and the highest bidder will become the owner of the buildings, the school said on its website, where it also published invitations to tender for the sale of individual properties.

"The individual properties of Charles University will be sold separately through electronic auctions, which will be held in parallel on 29 November 2022," the school said.

For the dean's office building, built in 1908, the lowest bid in the auction is set at CZK 35.7 million, according to the published invitation. The lowest bid for the Pavlov Pavilion, built in 1924, is 79.6 million crowns. For the Prochaska Pavilion, built in 1930 as a children's home, the university wants at least CZK 72.6 million.

Earlier this month, the Pilsen Medical Faculty opened the complete University Medical Centre (UniMeC) next to the University Hospital in Lochotín, which has been under construction in two phases since 2012. As the new centre has fully replaced the faculty's existing premises scattered in different parts of Pilsen, the UK has decided to offer selected properties in the city for sale, the school justified the sale of the buildings. Faculty spokeswoman Barbora Černíková said in the summer that no other faculty or other part of the university was interested in the properties. The medical faculty plans to use the buildings until the end of the year, after which they will be vacant, the spokeswoman told the Czech News Agency in July.

The construction of the university campus cost CZK 2.36 billion. In the first phase, the headquarters for five theoretical institutes and a research Biomedical Centre were built by 2014. In 2019, the construction of the main campus building began and subsequently all the theoretical teaching of future doctors, which until then had been in several buildings in the city, was moved there. Over 2000 future doctors and 200 students in postgraduate programmes study at the Pilsen Medical Faculty in all years.

Source: CTK