Accent was looking into what would happen to the monument on Frantsuzsky Boulevard

On the night of March 23, during an air raid, the dismantling of a part of a historic building, an architectural and urban planning monument built in 1895, began at 10 Frantsuzsky Boulevard.

TheAccent found out who owns the territory, why there was confusion about the protected status of the buildings, and how the developer is trying to change the purpose of the land - let's find out in the issue.

While the townspeople were hiding from enemy attacks, machinery was working on the territory of the former Odessavinprom. In the morning, activists and government officials arrived at the site, and a commission inspection confirmed the damage to the monument. Odesa has repeatedly lost historic buildings in this way.

The reaction of Odesa residents resulted in a picket and road blocking, and the prosecutor's office opened a criminal investigation and issued orders to stop the work.

The building is a designated architectural and urban planning monument of local significance called the "Warehouse Building of the Provincial Department". It was built by architect Lev Vlodek in 1895.

At 10 Frantsuzkyi Boulevard, there was a company store of the Odessavynprom plant, which sold alcoholic beverages of the Odesa and Frantsuzkyi Boulevard brands. In 2021, the plant was privatized, and in 2024, Kaplor 7, which won the auction for the privatization of Odessavinprom, offering UAH 234.9 million for it, began to allocate land for the facility. The plan was to combine three plots of the plant into 1.8 hectares for the placement and operation of main, auxiliary and auxiliary buildings and structures of processing, machine-building and other industries. That is, without changing the designated purpose.

In August 2025, part of the plant's industrial buildings were demolished. Odessavinprom's property complex consists of 97 real estate objects, 143 pieces of equipment and vehicles. The property is located at 8, 10, 12 Frantsuzsky Boulevard, 151 Ataman Holovaty Street and Nalyvna Street.

Кирило Бойко