Soon building permits to Fiat's partners for construction of manufacturing facilities in Kragujevac

The first group of partners of the Italian automaker Fiat will soon obtain building permits for the construction of manufacturing facilities in Kragujevac, spanning a total of 40,000 square meters, the City Directorate for Urban Planning announced today.

These facilities will be built in the industrial zone Grosnica where 1,500 jobs will be created.

People at the Directorate for Urban Planning told the press that four companies - Sigit, Johnson Controls, PMC, and HT&L - would have their facilities, spanning a total of 30 hectares, built in the first phase.

In that first phase, PMC will build a 20,500-square-meter facility, the facility built by Sigit will span 10,000 square meters, Johnson Controls will have a 6,000-square-meter facility built, while HT&L's facility will span 3,000 square meters.

Director of the Directorate for Urban Planning in Kragujevac, Mirjana Ciric, said that Fiat's partners would be building another 30,000-square-meter facilities in the same location in the second phase.

- Works are currently underway on the ground floor and public utility infrastructure in the industrial zone Grosnica, for which building permits were issued in May, and we expect the City Administration for Spatial Planning and Environment Protection to issue building permits in few days, based on the submitted documentation, for the commencement of construction of manufacturing facilities in that zone - Ms Ciric said.

The Directorate for Urban Planning in Kragujevac has concluded an agreement with Fiat on the provision of complete consulting services to that investor, worth between 400,000 and 500,000 euros.

The land in the industrial zone Grosnica, on which a military barracks used to be situated, has been allotted for free, and Fiat's partners have an obligation to pay the fee for the building land development.

People at the Directorate for Urban Planning said that the price amounted to EUR 12 per square meter of developed surface, meaning that the company PMC, for example, would have to pay EUR 180,000 for the land development until the year's end.