The spearhead project aiming at comprehensive urban development seeks to strengthen the competitiveness and attraction of the city centre from the point of view of business, tourism, leisure and housing.

Vividness of the city centre is created by enabling new forms of housing, planning projects that support developing commerce and jobs and developing new services and events.

Development of the city centre is steered by three focal points and their objectives:

  1. an accessible city centre with smooth mobility
  2. a commercially attractive city centre and
  3. a pleasant and vivid city centre of encounters.

 

The spearhead project aims to:

  • improve year-round attractiveness and public urban spaces
  • standardise the functionality of the city centre
  • ensure preconditions for lively cultural life and dynamic events activity in the city centre space
  • increase the number of residents and jobs in the city centre
  • restore confidence in the city centre as a profitable investment target
  • ensure the accessibility of the city centre and the effortlessness of travel by every means of transportation, and
  • advance the potential of the city centre to function as an innovation platform for digitalised and other new services.


The primary targets for measures to develop the city centre are the heart of the city centre, Aninkainen, Old Town, Maritime Turku, Transport and mobility.

Towards New Turku - Vision for the City Centre 2050
 

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More information

Timo Hintsanen Project Director 050 5589264