Penza, 17 October 2016. PenzaNews. The owner of the “Grot” café Konstantin Sergeev is ready for a dialogue with the Penza administration about possible moving of the establishment on the Sovetskaya square to another place – away from the constructing Spassky Cathedral, however, none of the officials discussed the issue with him so far.

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“By law they should write a letter, invite, and tell me what they want. I don’t know anything. There were no calls, no hints – nothing,” Konstantin Sergeev commented to PenzaNews on the information appeared on the City Hall website about the plans, allegedly agreed with the owners, to relocate two food outlets.

He explained that he learned about it from his colleague – the owner of the “777” bar Oksana Chumakova.

“I want to hear what they want. If it is something reasonable, realistic and normal, then there will be a dialogue, if it is something like we throw you away as not wanted after 30 years of work […], that will be a different conversation,” the agency interlocutor noted.

Konstantin Sergeev stressed that “it is possible to move a sack of potatoes from one corner to another,” but when it comes to business things are much more complicated.

“Grot” was opened in the early 1990s, and actually it was handed to me in the late 1980s when it was the Soviet power. […] Long before the cathedral construction,” he reminded.

The owner of the establishment emphasized that he has both the building and the land in property, with all necessary documents properly issued.