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Zabłocie - a modern post-industrial city

An ambitious residential project, built around the famous Schindler's factory and an excellent museum of modern art - in the post-industrial district.

Zabłocie
Based in Kraków, Poland
Zabłocie
Based in Kraków, Poland

General Info

Nestled underneath the southern hook of the Wisla river, Zablocie has become one of the city’s most dynamically developing districts. Set next to Podgorze, like its neighbour it bloomed in the first half of the 20th century as a place of light industry and its spread of factory facilities were complemented by housing for the blue collar class. Later, it became indelibly tainted by its associations with the war. Partially home to the city’s Ghetto, the return of peace saw it again resume its function as a place of production. However, the economic collapse that preceded the fall of communism saw many of the factories closed and abandoned and for several years after the transition Zablocie became one of Krakow’s forgotten areas.

After years of inactivity and inertia, the turnaround that the district has experience has been nothing short of a modern day miracle, and one utterly reflective of Krakow’s booming reputation as a city for the young and ambitious professional. Where once the empty factories were seen as sad scars of the past, today these same facilities have been used to the district’s advantage. Oskar Schindler’s factory, for instance, has been turned into one of the country’s best-known tourist attractions. Next door, the MOCAK functions as a world class contemporary art gallery. Yet others have been repurposed as cultural centres, leading-edge restaurants, offices, design studios or trendy apartments. Moreover, the overgrown and empty plots have seen a flurry of action with developers building apartment blocks aimed at professional locals, and all this has served to bestow an atmosphere of ‘now’ on Zablocie.

Architecture & Property

The aforementioned factories and warehouses are still a prevalent feature and with so many of them serving new generation purposes they have lent a trendy, post-industrial edge to an area that is now being rapidly infilled with smart apartment complexes such as Atal. Developed within the grounds of the former Miraculum factory, it’s brick, glass and steel façades connect sensitively to the past. Other notable successes include early pioneers such as Garden Residence, as well as Mlyn Lofts – a former flour mill converted into the city’s original loft-style condo development. Rich in its offer, prestige projects are many and also number Zablocie Concept House and Zablocie House II, a twin investment that has made much of its artistic flourishes and attractions.

Architecture & Property

The aforementioned factories and warehouses are still a prevalent feature and with so many of them serving new generation purposes they have lent a trendy, post-industrial edge to an area that is now being rapidly infilled with smart apartment complexes such as Atal. Developed within the grounds of the former Miraculum factory, it’s brick, glass and steel façades connect sensitively to the past. Other notable successes include early pioneers such as Garden Residence, as well as Mlyn Lofts – a former flour mill converted into the city’s original loft-style condo development. Rich in its offer, prestige projects are many and also number Zablocie Concept House and Zablocie House II, a twin investment that has made much of its artistic flourishes and attractions.

Green & Recreational Areas

Though Zablocie lacks anything that could be legitimately described as a tended park, the area’s development has been undertaken in such a way that it never feels claustrophobic or lacking in space. Many if not all of the new complexes have been built to feature their own green areas, whilst the untamed riverbank provides a raw snapshot of nature in its finest form. Vast allotment gardens are also a feature and give the area breathing space, and so too does a huge expanse of greenery to the area’s very east.

Amenities

Zablocie’s retail offer is largely limited to small-scale supermarkets and indy design stores, but the presence of the Galeria Kazimierz mall just across the river ensures big shopping trips need to be planned events – close by, find also a branch of the Medicover private clinic. In Zablocie itself, smaller private healthcare providers can also be found such as IMIcare.

School-wise, Zablocie has a branch of Kids & Co, a bi-lingual nursery and kindergarten, whilst the International Trilingual School of Cracow is found not too far away in the Kazimierz area. Just beyond that, and on the fringes of Old Town, the British International School of Cracow can be reached at peak hours in anything between 10 to 20-minutes.

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