Tag: Pasila
Last year, the population of Helsinki grew at a rate not seen since the 1960s
The city of Helsinki pointed out press release last week that if the preliminary data is confirmed this spring, it would be a new population growth record since the 1940s, except for 1965, when eastern Vuosaare was annexed to Helsinki. In the 21st century, the city has increased its population by an average of less…
Helsinki is preparing to sell more buildings for housing and tourism
The sale process of the approved ones is expected to start in 2024. This is in addition to the approximately 30 other sales already decided by the committee, several of which are in the final stages. In accordance with its property strategy, Helsinki aims to get rid of properties that are not needed for its…
The population of Helsinki is expected to exceed 700,000 in 2027
The Finnish capital is predicted to add 8,200 inhabitants in 2024 and to continue its growth by almost 7,000 inhabitants from 2025. This year, the population is expected to grow by more than 10,000 based on preliminary data from January to October. The growth in the forecast period is mainly due to migration gains, especially…
Helsinki's population is expected to exceed 700,000 by 2027 with fluctuating growth
Main points in Helsinki's population development Population milestones: At the end of 2022, the population of Helsinki was 664,028. The city is expected to exceed 700,000 inhabitants in 2027, reach 722,000 inhabitants by 2040, and approach 906,000 by the end of the forecast period in 2060. Growth drivers: The primary drivers of population growth are…
Underutilization of business premises on the rise in the capital region: 560,000 square meters
Helsinki Research Forum has published its assessment of the underutilization of central office areas in the capital region. At the end of June 2023, approximately 560,000 square meters of office space was available, which is approximately 37,000 square meters more than at the end of the previous quarter. The average vacancy rate was 13.3%, which…
More than half a million square meters of prime office space is empty in the capital region
Of the 4.2 million office spaces in these areas, 528,000 square meters were vacant. The lowest vacancy rates in the first quarter of this year were in Pasila and Keilaniemi. The average vacancy rate was 4.5 percent in Pasila and 8 percent in Keilaniemi. The highest vacancy rate was in Pitäjänmäki, where every fourth office…
HAM Helsinki Art Museum’s art collection now online
HAM takes care of the art collection that belongs to all Helsinki residents, and works of art spread from the Tennis Palace to every corner of the city. HAM’s collection includes more than 10,000 works, of which around 2,500 are located in the city’s public spaces, indoors and outdoors. The most visible part of the…
The study considers the merits of the high-speed train connection between Helsinki and Tampere
The price of the new rail connection was estimated at 5.3 billion euros, and the cost of the current renovation was slightly less than one billion euros. The runway, a long-distance train connection from Pasila via Helsinki-Vantaa to Kerava, was included in the costs of the new link as a prerequisite for the infrastructure project.…
Tuesday’s papers: S2 boys’ skills lag, centre’s mortgage gambits and homeless hockey team
The Jokers want to play at the Pasila arena, but it is still owned by sanctioned Russian oligarchs.
The proposals for the Pasila Junatehdas competition are now on display
The owner of the property, The Train Factory Oy, has organized an architectural competition for the design of the new building. A total of five architectural offices were invited to the international competition organized in cooperation with the City of Helsinki and the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA). The goal of the competition is to…
Suomen VR has hundreds of thousands of compensation claims for delays
The delays were particularly bad, up to 24 hours long, for passengers on overnight trains. Helsingin Sanomat, e.g. wrote about a passenger whose train from Pasila to Rovaniemi was stuck in Hämeenlinna for 16 hours. Read more: Finland’s railway traffic in chaos due to the delay of the bridge replacement project (June 28, 2022) Merja…
Monday Magazines: Bridges, Congestion, and Budgets
The construction of Helsinki’s crown bridges between Laajasalo and Hakaniemi is attracting attention Helsingin sanomat newspaper readers on Monday. HS has pictures of the first stages of a 1.2-kilometer-long bridge rising from the sea between Korkeasaari Zoo and Laajasalo. Finland’s longest bridge costs the city about 326 million euros. The project was initially controversial, as…
Finland seizes the holdings of the Russian oligarch Helsinki Arena
The supervisory authority has confiscated the holdings of the Russian-Finnish oligarch Gennady Tymoshenko in the former Hartwall Arena. Timchenko owns about 22.5 percent of Helsinki’s Pasila multipurpose arenas. He was the first Finnish citizen on the EU sanctions list. His holding in the holding company was about 10 million euros. According to Forbes, Tymoshenko is…
In the pictures: Helsinki railway station is undergoing an old-new transformation
The results of the extensive renovation of Helsinki Central Station will be revealed to the public little by little, as a new restaurant and terrace will open for the station’s former ticket sales this week. The station’s café and indoor terrace on the Elielinaukio side are also scheduled to start serving cam trips in the…
Hundreds of Ukrainians arrive in Finland every day
According to unofficial estimates, hundreds of Ukrainian citizens fleeing the war in their homeland arrive in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, every day. The Estonian Broadcasting Corporation (ERR) reported earlier this week that almost 20,000 Ukrainians had arrived in Estonia, and the shipping companies added that many would continue their journey by ship to Finland.…
Police: It takes weeks to clear a passport congestion
According to the police board, the number of passport applications has increased in recent weeks. Passport application deadlines are congested at police stations across the country, the National Police Board told STT on Sunday. Those wishing to renew their passport will have to wait weeks for a face-to-face meeting. People can also renew their passports…
Helsinki police report "unprecedented" passions
Police departments around the country said passport renewal has been brisk throughout the week. However, according to the Pasila permit unit in Helsinki, there were queues "unprecedented" on Friday. Every day in the Helsinki district, there are about 800 people in line, most of whom have come to apply for or renew a passport. Waiting…
Police will lose crime reports from a hacked therapy center due to a spreadsheet error
Helsinki police admit that they have lost some of their criminal reports due to a large-scale patient data breach at the psychotherapy center and have not tried to contact the victims to tell them about the error. According to the authorities, the reports disappeared when they were transferred from the spreadsheet to the police system.…
HSL aims to eliminate emissions from public transport by 2030
“This is an ambitious goal,” admitted HSL’s CEO Mika Nykänen. “We want to be a leader in sustainable mobility. We need to play a more active role in the city’s ecosystem. According to YLE, the recently published strategy also emphasizes the importance of compensating for the loss of income caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Nykänen…
See: Wolt’s couriers respond to the company’s € 7 billion acquisition
When news of the acquisition of the distribution company Wolt by American rival DoorDash hit the headlines on Wednesday, Yle’s Helsinki office visited Mall of Tripla in the Pasila district for lunch to receive feedback from the company’s courier. Most of the couriers were too busy to stop chatting, but a few took a moment…
Forecast: Helsinki ‘s population will rise to 700,000 in 2028
Pekka Vuori, Helsinki City Executive Office expert, said According to Helsingin Sanomat, the increase in capital is expected to be due in particular to areas that have developed significantly. For example, Kalasatama and Pasila are forecast to grow by 16,000 and 13,800 inhabitants, which corresponds to almost a third of Helsinki’s growth. Other emerging areas…
The mystery of Helsinki’s hard rise was solved when a man found a rocket launcher
The large boom that sounded from large parts of Helsinki last weekend could have been the work of a homemade rocket, an expert who believes he has found a launch site. Jaakko Visuri The Ursa Astronomical Society’s fireball team told Yle News that he used seismic measurements from the Institute of Seismology to determine the…
Yle celebrates 95 years of broadcasting
Yleisradio Yle Broadcasting) turns 95 on Thursday. "Yle is handsome 95 years old and in good condition," managing director Merja Ylä-Anttila said. The first radio broadcast was broadcast from the Unioninkatu studio in the center of Helsinki on September 9, 1926, when the opera singer and journalist Alexis af Enehjelm told the people that regular…
Friday leaves: Train stopped, phishing and drug resistant fungus
Rail traffic has come to a halt on Friday after a protest by locomotive drivers began at midnight, says Helsingin sanomat newspaper, according to which Pasila’s main railway station in Helsinki was deserted on Friday morning. State Railways VR on Friday reported that the stoppage affected HSL commuter trains as well as long-distance passenger and…
Wednesday newspapers: tax evasion taxis, "dark" food delivery, vaccine research supports redistribution
Tabloids Iltalehti starts with a report tax authorities of taxi companies. According to the paper, the number of taxi carriers has exploded in Finland since the liberalization of the market Juha Sipilä The (Cen) government paved the way for some unscrupulous actors in 2018. Marko Myllyniemi, Vero, Director of Supervision and Control of the Tax…
The suspension of work interrupts commuter train traffic in the Finnish capital region
VR states on its website that the cancellations affect most of HSL and all its local services, with the exception of G trains and some M and Z trains. All commuter train tickets are valid on commuter trains that stop in Pasila, Tikkurila, Leppävaara, Karjaa, Riihimäki, Hämeenlinna, Toijala and Lahti. The latest information on the…
Tuesday’s newspapers: curfews, restaurant fees, election uncertainty
Tabloids Evening News write that the prime minister’s mention Sanna Marin (SDP) on Monday that the government may have to consider measures restricting fundamental rights in practice was a reference to the possible introduction of curfews and restrictions on movement. The newspaper notes that Marin added that preparatory work is being done by government officials…
In 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, digital magazine quotations rose 154% and outdoor areas were booming
The sports venues had eight million visits As a result of the restrictions caused by the coronavirus, the number of visitors to sports facilities decreased by about 20 percent. Nevertheless, they received more than eight million visitors last year. The importance of outdoor sports facilities for residents in particular was emphasized. For example, the beaches…
Social Distance Skills, Environmental Issues and Moomins in Korea: Finland in the World Press
Finland’s plans to expand battery production also received news this week, and some expressed concern about the environmental impact of increased mining. The government’s new “battery strategy” will ensure the creation of a number of new mineral mining sites that environmentalists say could threaten sensitive ecosystems. Elsewhere, however, Finland was praised for its progress in…
Police find out who ordered pepper to spray Helsinki protesters
The Helsinki Police Department has announced that it will launch an investigation into who ordered the use of pepper spray to disperse climate protesters in Saturday afternoon’s protest. Detective According to the Inspector General Jonna Turunen Helsinki police, the matter will be investigated early next week. "This was a police-led field operation where the decision…