Zagreb to spend another €2 million on Paromlin complex: Details of major property deal

Zagreb is preparing to spend another €2 million to clear property obstacles around the Paromlin redevelopment, even as construction enters its final phase. The city wants to purchase two neighboring properties so it can settle ownership issues around the former industrial complex.

The larger of the two properties, at Paromlinska 19 and 19/1, covers 507 square meters. It contains two apartment buildings with seven apartments, storage areas, a courtyard and a covered parking space. The city plans to pay €1.5 million and take possession within six months of the sale.

The second property covers 148 square meters and includes a street-facing family home, a rear residential building and a courtyard at number 11. Zagreb plans to pay €471,120 for it. Although the project does not require the entire larger plot, the city intends to buy it in full because the owners would no longer have an interest in living in or managing the property.

The Paromlin project, valued at €95 million, will transform the 36,000-square-meter industrial complex into a cultural center combining 21st-century architecture with elements from the Austro-Hungarian period. A central glass building will house the city library, alongside a new auxiliary structure.

Plans include a 400-seat multimedia hall and restaurant underground, a café and reading room on the ground floor, library departments and residential apartments for visiting artists. A restaurant terrace will sit in the inner courtyard near a new 50-meter tower modeled on the brick tower that once stood at the old Paromlin. The opening is planned for the second half of 2027.