There will be no underground passage in the center of Lutsk. The investor does not want to invest his own funds in a project regarding which they cannot decide whether the city needs it or not. This was discussed today at a press club meeting in the Lutsk city hall. Deputy Mayor Leonid KyryLchuk, director of "Ukrdipromist" Androsh Badzilya, and the investor himself – entrepreneur Oleh Chernetskyi – came to the regional center to announce the cancellation of the construction. As Mr. KyryLchuk noted, the city authorities were greatly disappointed by such a decision of the investor. Again, unfortunately, the principle "wanted as better, turned out as always" worked.
Let me remind you that the Lutsk authorities planned to carry out the reconstruction of Teatralnyi Square for the city's 920th anniversary and, in parallel, at private expense, intended to build an underground passage. The amount of investment is about 5 million hryvnias. When it became known that there was an investor and the preliminary date for the start of construction, discussions began to swirl around the future passage. The coalition "Lutsk European," headed by Oleksandr Martyniuk, accused the authorities of not holding a competition among investors, and that Lutsk currently has more urgent problems that need to be solved.
Judging by the words of Oleh Chernetskyi, despite the fact that part of the preparatory work for construction has already been done and about an average of 300-500 thousand hryvnias has been spent on it, he decided to abandon the project. To remain the scapegoat in this situation is not in his interests, and he says that this smells of politics. Mr. Chernetskyi plans to recoup part of the money by taking his investment project to other Ukrainian cities, in particular to Zhytomyr. And according to KyryLchuk, the reconstruction of Teatralnyi Square will be completed by Independence Day, but already without the underground passage. The city cannot afford to do this at its own expense.