Kamppi Center ready to open all shops in downtown Helsinki tomorrow

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The newest part of Helsinki's downtown commercial and residential centre in Kamppi will open its doors on Thursday. The shops and restaurants on the market square level as well as the terminals for Espoo buses and long-distance coaches opened already in June 2005.
     
The four-year construction project, involving the extensive redevelopment of the Kamppi district in downtown Helsinki, was completed roughly six months ahead of the original schedule.
      According to Ilpo Kokkila, the Chairman of the Board of the Kamppi Center, this was possible thanks to brisker than expected progress on excavation and foundation work.
      The Kamppi commercial centre is providing 35,000 square metres of floor space to over 150 businesses. The number of restaurants alone is more than 20. In addition, the complex houses a nightclub, a bowling restaurant, an Internet café, as well as outdoor terraces facing the Tennispalatsi Square, when weather permits.
      The Kamppi Center comprises six storeys, including a nightclub which will open in the penthouse premises, with a roof terrace overlooking the western skyline of Helsinki.
     
The Managing Director of the Kamppi Center, Henrik Winberg has a huge target of turning the Kamppi complex into one of the most significant shopping malls in the country. Moreover, he expects the Kamppi Center to become the recreation centre of the city.
      While aiming at annual sales of EUR 200 million, the Kamppi Center is expected to attract as many as 100,000 visitors a day.
      The sales for last year, from the end of June to the end of December, amounted to approximately EUR 40 million. The number of visitors was nearly 13 million, bearing in mind that only some 22 percent of the total floor space available in the entire mall was occupied then.
      Winberg believes that the Kamppi Center is likely to strengthen even the other businesses surrounding the complex.
     
The rental of the trading premises has gone smoothly, after some initial difficulties. Moreover, almost all offices available above the commercial premises have also found tenants so far.


Previously in HS International Edition:
  Entrepreneurs to get statue in new Kamppi Center (6.9.2005)
  Huge crowd forms within minutes as Kamppi Commercial Center opens in downtown Helsinki (3.6.2005)

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