REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Ministers Oliver Dulić and Dragan Šutanovac visit “Vojvoda Stepa Stepanović” Barracks
The Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulić and the Minister of Defence Dragan Šutanovac visited today "Stepa Stepanović " barracks in Voždovac, Belgrade, where the building of the residential complex has been planned. The residential building project on the site of the former barracks forms part of a government's programme aimed at boosting the construction industry and is its largest construction project thus far. The residential complex will consist of more than 4578 apartments constructed on the building land of 42 ha. The complex will also include other accompanying facilities: a school, a healthcare center, kindergartens, sports fields, a mall, parks, pedestrian zones, garages and a parking lot.
The residential building project on the site of the former barracks "Stepa Stepanović" in Belgrade where the construction of 4,578 apartments has been planned will employ from 30 to 35 thousand workers in the current and the following year. The government's programme will enable the opening of 240 construction sites in Serbia and help boosting construction industry. Practically each and every city or municipality in Serbia will have similar construction site. The new apartments, hospitals, schools, cultural institutions, sports facilities and other necessary facilities that would improve the quality of living of its inhabitants will be built. In this way we will also help construction workers to get through this difficult period, said Minister Dulić.
While visiting the construction site, Minister Dulić announced that this summer in cooperation with the City of Belgrade the building of 1,100 apartments will start in Belgrade district called "Dr Ivan Ribar". This project will be implemented as a part of state subsidized residential building programme.
Serbian Army is entitled to 21% of the flats on the location of "Vojvoda Stepa Stepanović" barracks. The rest of the properties will be exchanged for apartments in other towns in Serbia, such as Vranje, Paraćin, Čačak and Valjevo, Šutanovac explained.
The building of the apartments has already begun on the mentioned location and infrastructure works are expected to start in April, 2011. The first apartments should be completed in spring of 2012 and the entire 4578 apartments will be finished this autumn.