Source: Niške vesti | Wednesday, 24.11.2021.| 11:01
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Full Demolition of TC Kalca in Nis and Construction of New STC Zonina Kula Proposed

The new building in the location of the current TC Kalca
The new building in the location of the current TC Kalca (Photo: Twitter/screenshot/ Igor Novaković)
The deputy president of the City Assembly of Nis and a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia, Igor Novakovic, proposed at the most recent session of the city parliament what he called radical ways of increasing the budget, but also “a new image of the city of Nis”. What perhaps caused the most attention is his proposition to demolish the Kalca shopping center and build a whole new, modern residential-business center Zonina Kula (STC Zonina Kula), whose mezzanine would feature the popular Kalca, but in a new form.

The demolition of Kalca and the construction of a new shopping center in the very center of Nis is a project that, according to Novakovic, can be realized immediately, no matter how impossible it may seem. Kalca is already an obsolete shopping center and it would have to be built from scratch, which is completely normal in all the developed countries of the world. In Germany, he says, “shopping centers are replaced every twenty years of so”. According to him, outlet owners will not mind either. On the contrary, it will suit them to have their outlets in a shopping center which will have visitors.

– Which outlet owner doesn’t want to go from the current state, where the outlet is not operating well and they can’t lease it either, to having an outlet in a modern shopping center matching the current one square meter to square meter? This is not up to outlet owners to decide, but the Assembly of Kalca, and due to the large amounts of business space that is owned by the city, it can secure a majority vote – Novakovic explains for Niske Vesti.

Novakovic reminds that the City of Nis does not have a large area of land in the city center in its ownership, and Kalca spreads on nearly a hectare of land. At the time when Nis got this shopping center, certain construction technologies were used, which are now obsolete. The idea includes an underground garage on several tiers, which would solve the problem with parking in the city center.

TC Kalca
TC Kalca (Photo: Google Maps/screenshot)


– The construction technology has advanced, so now there are buildings which go deep into the ground in your immediate environment. Materials which protect from the water breaking through have appeared in the construction sector. We can get six levels of garage space there, which is around five hectares. A new shopping center should be made to match the current era. Kalca is now dysfunctional. In the city center, outlets in Obrenoviceva Street and maybe several outlets on the ground floor of Kalca are operational. It is in everyone’s interest for Kalca to function, because it is located in the busiest street in Nis – Igor Novakovic points out.

His proposition entails a whole new look of the business center, which will have a new mezzanine, that is, a modern center for the 21st century, where outlets would be returned to their owners, while a building with 20 floors would be built within it. The new shopping center would be built by a potential investor, and Novakovic says that the interest would probably be great, because this is the most attractive location. On the other hand, the city would get another 164,000 square meters of residential-business space, with a high price.

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