The public Warehouses, after having been in the centre of Budapest's economic life, now stand left alone and built around, as pictures of the post-industrial reality.

Despite of the few plans, made in the last century, the closed area of the Warehouses still breaks the way of using the bank of the Danube between the Szabadság and Petofi bridges as a public and representative place.

The opening of the Great Boulevard in 1883, on the western side of the Ülloi street changed the city to a great extent. 251 buildings were ruined and 253 new ones built. Not only public buildings, like the Museum of Aplied Arts, Market Hall no.1. were built, but several factories were founded int he Ferencváros at that time.

In the last decades of the 19th century, the bank of the Danube also went through a development. The four buildings of the Warehouses were finished in 1880-81, and the monumental ”Elevator”, a loading station of grain carrying ships opened its gates in 1883.

Several plans were made and carried out, to make the bank of the river an opened, representative. pedestrian precinct, and according to this, the prices of the estates raised to the top.

The second World War stopped this tendency. The Elevator was badly damaged, the Petofi- bridge ruined.

The Nehru park was created in 1966, and it is still the only public park on the bank of the river.

Int he last decade a lot of changes took place int he Ferencváros. The Ráday street, close to the bank of the river, became a street of cafés and bars. The Main Market Hall at the beginning of the Váci street, is also a representative spot of the city.

A few meters from here, the Warehouses stand still in bad condition, and nearly unused, waiting for a great idea, that connects them into the circulation of the city.