Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2020 | Page 18

Vertical Edge
KALASATAMA AREA
• Kalasatama Towers: 7 residential buildings and 1 office building
• REDI: exciting shopping and experience center with over 200 stores
• 6 minutes by metro to the city center
• 30 minutes to Helsinki Airport
The perfect marriage of commercial,
residential and office excellence is taking shape in Kalasatama,
Helsinki’s most exciting new district
SRV is introducing high-rise construction to the shores of Helsinki in a big way. The new Kalasatama District will
feature as many as eight towers – all built upon the new shopping center REDI. With residential and office construction
in the mix, this powerful new combination promises to be a true national landmark for decades to come.
A
lready hailed as Finland’s pre-
mier Smart City, Kalasatama is
an intensely urban neighborhood,
located by the sea in the eastern city center
of Helsinki. Kalasatama is being developed
with an eye for technological solutions and
everyday innovation from the point of view
of the community. With thousands of resi-
dents already in the area, Kalasatama will
feature as many as 25,000 residents and
10,000 jobs in by 2040.
SRV has been involved in the evolu-
tion of the exciting new district since the
very beginning. The company constructed
REDI, a 64,000 square meter shopping
center, to serve as the commercial anchor
for the entire neighborhood. As REDI was
built at a significant transport node and at
a location above Kalasatama metro station,
utilization of public transport is easier than
just about anywhere else in Finland.
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Build a Foundation
Still, the completion of REDI in 2018 was
just a prelude, so to speak: the construction
rolls on, with high-rise towers being com-
pleted one by one over the coming years.
Kalasatama Towers are poised to take high-
rise living and working in Finland to a totally
new level.
The first among these is the residential
tower, Majakka, that rises to 134 meters –
claiming the honor of being the tallest res-
idential building in Finland upon its com-
pletion in late 2019.
“The first residents of Majakka will
move in in November,” confirms Sales
Director Riikka Lohikoski from SRV.
Majakka is sure to set the bar for ambi-
tious, urban living in Finland. The high-
reaching residential tower and the shopping
center down below form a joint service con-
cept, and the tower’s standard equipment
includes, among other things, a smart home
automation system. Majakka also holds
larger-than-usual common areas with sky-
high clubroom and sauna facilities.
“The residents have been actively
involved in designing the over-all service
concept and they have opted to create a
home with a very strong community feel,”
Lohikoski explains.
Maximizing Service
Inspiration for the service concept was
sought all the way from Manhattan, with
a lobby concierge service introducing new
kind of metropolitan flavor to Nordic liv-
ing. The residents can, for example, easily
order online cleaning or call in a hairdresser
to their home.
“The idea is to elevate residents’ qual-
ity of life by making things as easy as pos-
sible,” says Lohikoski.