 The city today remains an industrial heart of Serbia, and has grown with the influx of students and refugees from the Yugoslav wars.In 2010, the city government signed a memorandum with the German development agency GIZ and in 2012 city hall adopted a strategy of urban development of the central city zone to be completed by 2030.As of December 2017, many objects within the complex deteriorated and the right bank of the Lepenica is urbanistically neglected.