REGION

Petr Baďura

starosta města Paskov

Mayor of Paskov

Paskov Changes Its Face

and Consciousness

Paskov is located in Moravia in the northeast of the Czech Republic. The first written mention

reveals the existence of Paskov as early as 1267. Until the first half of the 19th century, it was

a feudal seat with an extensive pond system. The industrial revolution of the 19 th century,

as well as changes to agricultural management, gradually turned it into an industrial locality

connected mainly with coal mining. Currently, its post-mining awareness of itself is changing. It

still remains a place with many business activities and job opportunities, but it is also becoming

a discovered place for exploring preserved cultural and natural monuments--a regional social

center. Considering its excellent highway and railway accessibility, there is still an opportunity to

establish companies focused on innovation and ecology.

Mr Mayor, how would you briefly

characterize Paskov? What does the city

offer to potential investors?

It is a place where the historical industrial

agglomeration of Ostrava is connected

with an increasingly popular rural area,

where it is ‘close to work and nature’.

Investors are offered a unique opportunity

to use space previously used for coal

mining and related activities. It has very

good transport accessibility, including by

motorway and railway.

Part of the former Paskov Mine was used

for the PKP CARGO combined transport

terminal, which enables connections to

important European ports.

In the ‘southern industrial zone’, Lenzing

Biocel Paskov produces pulp, which is the

basis for environmentally-friendly textile

fiber.

Due to our city‘s small size, many companies

have used the potential of the traditional

industrial agglomeration but there is

especially interest in the newly developing

programmes in the region in connection with

the available workforce.

The development potential is far from

exhausted. There are still vacant areas where

it would be possible to implement innovative

and environmentally-friendly projects with

the support of the POHO 2030 programme.

What has the city been up to lately?

What are the currently planned projects?

The task of Town Hall is to ensure

balanced development of the city, to

ensure that permanent residents live well,

that its visitors find the necessary services,

that the heritage in the form of cultural

and natural monuments is preserved for

future generations. Therefore, in recent

years, we have begun to revitalize the

castle grounds, build twenty-five small

apartments, build a sports hall, increase

the capacity of the kindergarten, add

a new fire station and carry out a number

of other construction and repair jobs. The

big challenge is to ensure the expansion

of the sewer network and the capacity of

wastewater treatment plants.

Mr Mayor, thank you for the interview.

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