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Lublin

Lublin's strongest evidence is the City's own: it is selling the buildings its administration used to occupy at ul. Leszczyńskiego 20 and 22 — two office buildings, one of eight storeys, 'currently unused', starting price PLN 25.5m, tender on 26 November 2026, with planning-conditions decisions of 18 September 2025 for conversion to flats — and the former 'Czerwona Karczma' at ul. Turystyczna 2, which the City describes as unoccupied and unused. The national topographic database records 92 buildings out of use and 127 ruined, led by the Odlewnia Żeliwa foundry (footprints of 20,229 and 11,942 m²). Offices stand 10.5% vacant, about 24,000 m² (BNP Paribas Real Estate, Q2 2026).
Vacant office space24,000 m²10.5% of the stock stands empty
Empty buildings on record20033 confirmed, 1 likely
Flagged unused38buildings in the official cadastre; 6 have 3,000 m² or more
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, end of Q2 2026 — Lublin 10.5% of the stock vacant, about 24,000 m² (read from the report chart); the eight-city regional average is 17.3%. Lublin took under 2% of the quarter's leasing. Map built 2026-10-09.

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A tour in 3D

An empty building in Lublin, and what it could become

A building checked against today's sources and found empty — a site that could be well suited to the EHC model. A short film: how it could come back to life, with what our conversion check and economic model say it could hold. A potential we spotted, not a plan.

Together, room for ≈ 32 homes — a potential, not a plan.

  1. Offices of the former City administration, ul. Stanisława Leszczyńskiego 20/22 (Wieniawa)Stanisława Leszczyńskiego 20 · ≈ 32 homes
  • activated ground floor
  • shared rooms
  • furnished mid-term flats
  • affordable long-term homes

The map

Every building a record says stands empty, one point per building: filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is, and open one to see who says so. “Opportunities” switches to the co-op lens: public land, conversion potential and projects already under way, every source as its own layer.

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0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed

Check any building in Lublin: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

Named empty by owners and public records

2 buildings that the owner or a public register records as empty — whole buildings of at least 1,500 m² whose plans suit homes on paper (band A in our conversion check), not ruins and not let for interim use. Each row says who records it empty and when. We have not been to them, and a record can be out of date; those we have confirmed empty ourselves are marked as tour stops.

BuildingFloor areaRecorded empty byActions
Offices of the former City administration, ul. Stanisława Leszczyńskiego 20/22 (Wieniawa)On the tourRoute in open
Two disused office blocks (3 and 7 storeys) on a 0.25 ha plot · Stanisława Leszczyńskiego 20 · Gmina Lublin · route closes 2026-11-26
≈ 3,865 m²Built City of Lublin properties the City describes as unused or unoccupied, on sale
Owner's list · Urząd Miasta Lublin · 9 Oct 2026
Former "Czerwona Karczma", ul. Turystyczna 2 (Tatary)Route in open
Listed former roadside inn and nail factory, unused, for sale · ul. Turystyczna 2 · Gmina Lublin
≈ 1,616 m²Built City of Lublin properties the City describes as unused or unoccupied, on sale
Owner's list · Urząd Miasta Lublin · 9 Oct 2026

Where to look first

Buildings with evidence that they stand empty — a second source agrees, a public record names them, or we have checked them — ranked by a score you can read: co-op scale, daylight depth, a station nearby, a zone that allows homes, affordable land and an open route in. Checked buildings carry their result; nobody has visited them on site yet. Leerstandsmelder reports join the list when they sit in a large non-residential building and a second source agrees.

PriorityBuildingFloor areaDepthStationConversion checkActions
73Offices of the former City administration, ul. Stanisława Leszczyńskiego 20/22 (Wieniawa)Confirmed empty by EHC
Public building named vacant · 3 other sources nearby
3,865 m²15.3 m2,538 mA fit only
68Frezerów 13
Flagged unused in the cadastre · industrial building · 1 storey · 1 other source nearby
18,144 m²72 m294 mA fit only
64Former "Czerwona Karczma", ul. Turystyczna 2 (Tatary)Not confirmed yet
Public building named vacant · 1 storey · 1 other source nearby
1,616 m²13.4 m1,057 mA fit only
61near Władysława Kunickiego 20b
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial building · 5 storeys
3,980 m²—426 mA fit only
55Władysława Kunickiego 20
Distressed or stranded (named) · industrial building · 3 storeys
1,696 m²—355 mB fit only
53Near Gospodarcza
Distressed or stranded (named) · warehouse · 1 storey
—5.8 m488 m—
53Near Gospodarcza
Distressed or stranded (named) · warehouse · 1 storey
—12.4 m449 m—
48Ruin of an unfinished clinic ("Ursus"), ul. Metalurgiczna 9
Distressed or stranded (named) · 1 other source nearby
7,995 m²—2,717 m—
47Przemysłowa 6
Distressed or stranded (named) · block of flats · 3 storeys
1,848 m²12.1 m1,151 mA fit only
46Near Gospodarcza 23f
Distressed or stranded (named) · warehouse · 1 storey
—11.9 m510 m—

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

A hand outlining a neighbourhood on a city map, with small houses drawn inside

Wieniawa and the centre — Leszczyńskiego 20/22 and ul. 3 Maja

A 0.25 ha City plot with two unused office buildings (one of eight storeys) near the city centre has conversion-to-flats permissions and a tender date; a heritage villa on ul. 3 Maja stood empty from 2023.

  • Leszczyńskiego 20/22: tender 26 November 2026, planning-conditions decisions of 18 September 2025 allow flats, hotel or services
  • Council vote to sell: 26 March 2026 (18 for, 9 against)
  • 11 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 1.5 km (4,341 m² of footprint)

Risk: The starting price is PLN 25.5m and the Mayor himself thinks demolition would be best; the 3 Maja villa is priced at PLN 6.2m and its owner is not named in the article.

2 sources

Tatary and the eastern industrial belt — Czerwona Karczma and the foundry

The largest recorded out-of-use floor space in Lublin lies along ul. Frezerów and ul. Mełgiewska (the Odlewnia Żeliwa foundry: 20,229, 11,942 and 2,456 m² footprints), a kilometre from the City's own offer of the unused Czerwona Karczma.

  • 19 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 2.5 km, 7 of them of 500 m² or more (41,978 m² of footprint in all)
  • Czerwona Karczma: 0.3521 ha, monuments register, starting price PLN 2.9m with a 50% discount

Risk: An industrial belt with unknown owners and probable contamination; the BDOT10k flag lags and the foundry's legal state was not verified.

2 sources

LSM estate — Hansen pavilion, ul. Balladyny 10

A modernist pavilion by Zofia and Oskar Hansen, abandoned and decaying, is the subject of a protection-and-reuse study with the City Monument Conservator.

  • Inventory and research from May 2025; workshop 31 July and presentation 1 August 2025
  • 4 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 1.5 km

Risk: Small and heritage-sensitive; the article names no owner and the new use is still to be agreed.

1 source

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

A door key on a doorstep with a drawn path leading to an open door
Public owner

Gmina Lublin — Wydział Gospodarowania Mieniem i Energią (tenders in the BIP)

The City sells built property by unrestricted oral tender after a council resolution (Leszczyńskiego 20/22: resolution of 26 March 2026, notice of 23 September, tender 26 November 2026, deposit PLN 2.55m). Its investor page offers the Czerwona Karczma at PLN 2.9m with a 50% discount. A co-op can ask the council to put a property into a limited tender under the co-operatives act before the tender is announced.

2 sources
Allocation rule

Rada Miasta Lublin — sales under the Housing Co-operatives Act

A municipal council may resolve to sell municipal real estate only to housing co-operatives and to members acting under a co-operation agreement, by limited written tender (Art. 12). The price can be offset against flats sold back to the municipality, paid in instalments over 5 to 20 years, and the sale carries a repurchase right if the homes are not built within five years (Arts. 12, 16, 17, 19). A group can ask the council to apply it to a property on the City's list; the act covers sale, not lease.

1 source
Public owner

State Treasury property passed to the City

Two years before March 2026 the City received the former Ministry of the Interior clinic at ul. Spokojna 3 and 5 (0.51 ha) from the State Treasury for a municipal safety centre; the Mayor said the City will not take on a costlier, harder investment that would not give users the space they need. State property can reach a city this way, which is the precedent for asking for other State buildings.

1 source

Signals to watch

Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.

  1. 2026-09-23
    City announces the Leszczyńskiego 20/22 tender

    Starting price PLN 25.5m; deposit PLN 2.55m by 20 November; tender on 26 November 2026 at 13:00, Spokojna 2.

    1 source
  2. 2026-03-26
    Council votes to sell the Leszczyńskiego 20/22 plot

    18 votes for, 9 against; the Mayor said demolition and rebuilding would be the best solution but costly, and that proceeds fund the City's tasks.

    1 source
  3. 2025-09-18
    Planning-conditions decisions for the Leszczyńskiego offices

    Four decisions of 18 September 2025 allow converting the two office buildings into multi-family housing (with or without services), a hotel-and-services scheme or services, with an underground garage and an extra storey on the lower building.

    1 source
  4. 2025-07-31
    Students inventory the Hansen pavilion on LSM

    Workshop of 31 July and presentation of 1 August 2025 for a protection plan and a new use for ul. Balladyny 10.

    1 source
  5. 2025-07-22
    Villa at ul. 3 Maja 14 offered for PLN 6.2m

    Empty since the Ukrainian consulate left in 2023; price cut from PLN 8.9m; about 800 m² usable.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

17 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.

Show every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API148Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich)
Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building.
Open download110 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
EEA standard re-use policy (attribution)
Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings
Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg)
Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named).
Asking for permission0Pending
2026-10-09
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty
Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report)
German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point
Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed
Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records)
Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation)
Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018)
European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy.
Open API55Live
2026-10-09
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers
EHC research (dated press and court sources per point)
Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up
Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research
Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research6Live
2026-10-09
Facts cited to their publishers
Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags
OpenStreetMap contributors
start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Buildings recorded out of use in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 0663 (Lublin)
Open download37Live
2026-10-09
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Buildings recorded as ruined in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 0663 (Lublin)
Open download29Live
2026-10-09
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Office buildings of four storeys or more in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 0663 (Lublin)
Open download160Live
2026-10-09
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Industrial and warehouse buildings of three storeys or more in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 0663 (Lublin)
Open download71Live
2026-10-09
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Built City of Lublin properties the City describes as unused or unoccupied, on sale
Urząd Miasta Lublin — Wydział Gospodarowania Mieniem i Energią (BIP: Rozporządzanie nieruchomościami) and the investor page "Nieruchomości miejskie"
Open API2Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — Gmina Lublin public information, used with credit to Urząd Miasta Lublin
OpenStreetMap: land mapped as brownfield
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API12Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • Lublin publishes tenders, not vacancies: no register of empty municipal buildings or flats was found (the BIP shows one built property on sale and the investor page one more).
  • The City's spatial portal geoportal.lublin.eu lists layers for land ownership ("Mapa własności gruntów"), building function and storeys, and the register of demolition permits, but its GeoServer answers HTTP 403 to non-browser clients, so none of it could be read; a person with access could export them.
  • invest-in-lublin.com (the City's "Oferty Brownfield" and office-space offers) answered HTTP 521 and 522 (origin down) and was not read.
  • The foundry's ownership and legal state, and the owner of the 3 Maja villa, are not published in anything we opened; commercial company registers (aleo.com) answered HTTP 403.
  • BDOT10k flags lag reality and name no owner.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Lublin that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

A phone held up to photograph an empty shopfront, with a map pin drawn above it

We publish the address, the kind of building and your description once we have checked it — never your email. Please do not name the people who own or live in a building.

Radars nearby

The other radars in the same country and the nearest beyond. All 134 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

Bydgoszcz, Poland276empty buildings on recordGdańsk, Poland415empty buildings on recordKaunas, Lithuania63empty buildings on recordKošice, Slovakia34empty buildings on recordKraków, Poland351empty buildings on recordŁódź, Poland481empty buildings on recordOstrava, Czechia42empty buildings on recordPoznań, Poland307empty buildings on recordSzczecin, Poland353empty buildings on recordVilnius, Lithuania283empty buildings on recordWarsaw, Poland1,352empty buildings on recordWrocław, Poland676empty buildings on record