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Ratina (shopping Centre)
Ratina ( fi, Kauppakeskus Ratina) is a shopping center in Finland, opened in the heart of Tampere on 19 April 2018, construction of which began in April 2015. Ratina is Tampere's largest shopping center with 53,000 square meters of retail space, Grocery store, offering groceries, fashion, interior design, Health, wellness and leisure services, as well as Coffeehouse, cafés and restaurants. Under it, a Parking lot, parking space for more than 1,200 cars has been built, which is the largest parking garage in the center of Tampere. Location, features and facilities The Ratina shopping center is built between Ratina Stadium and the Tampere Bus Station, and there is also an underground connection to the bus station below the Vuolteenkatu street. The new building in the shopping center is largely located on the former pier area of the bus station. The shopping center is also accessible directly from the bus station via escalators. The developer is Sponda, which was selected as the con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratina (district)
Ratina is a district in the center of Tampere, Finland, on the east side of Tammerkoski. The Ratina Stadium, Tampere Bus Station and Tampere's largest shopping mall, the Ratina (shopping centre), Ratina shopping centre, are located in the district, among others. To the north of Ratina is also the Koskikeskus (shopping centre), Koskikeskus shopping centre. The district consists of a peninsula called Ratinanniemi, which is surrounded on three sides by Ratinansuvanto and Viinikanlahti. Between Ratinanniemi and the Laukontori square is a pedestrian bridge called Laukonsilta, which significantly shortens travel time to the Keskusta, Tampere, city center. The Tampere highway has good connections to the Finnish national road 3, Helsinki-Tampere motorway and along it to the Tampere Ring Road, and via the Ratinansilta bridge and the Hämeenpuisto park to Finnish national road 12, Highway 12. Ratinanranta is the southern part of the Tampere highway from Ratina, which used to be a recreation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aamulehti
(Finnish for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish-language daily newspaper published in Tampere, Finland. History and profile ''Aamulehti'' was founded in 1881 to "improve the position of the Finnish people and the Finnish language" during Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...'s rule over Finland. The founders were nationalistic Finns in Tampere. During the Cold War, Cold War period ''Aamulehti'' was among the Finnish newspapers which were accused by the Soviet Union of being the instrument of Propaganda in the United States, US propaganda, and the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki frequently protested the editors of the paper. In the 1980s, Aamulehti Corporation acquired the paper ''Uusi Suomi'', which they shut down in 1991. ''Aamulehti'' was published in Broadshee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tullintori
Tullintori is a shopping center located in Tulli, Tampere, Finland. The largest of the two owners of the shopping center is Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company, who own 97%.Kauppakeskukset 2017 (in Finnish) The shopping center contains around 50 shops and numerous cafés and restaurants and a recreational climbing area. The top floors are mainly . The annual number of visitors to the center is about 2,5 million. Architecturally, Tullintori is a traditional , glass-covered “colonnade”. It was formed by combining [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koskikeskus (shopping Centre)
Koskikeskus is a shopping center in Kyttälä, Tampere, Finland, next to Sokos Hotel Ilves. It was opened in March 1988, when it was the largest shopping center in Finland at the time. The shopping center and the adjacent Hotel Ilves were built on the site of the old Verkatehdas. History In the early years, the center, built by Polar-Yhtymä construction company, had interior waterfalls and customers could play tennis on two outdoor courts built on the roof during the summer. There were about a hundred shops in the center. The architecture included various alleys on the third floor. Since then, Pyörrekuja and other detours provided space for new business premises. In 2003, Citycon Oyj acquired Koskikeskus from the Polar-Yhtymä company. Koskikeskus was partially renovated in 2005–2006, and a more comprehensive renovation began in spring 2011 and was completed in November 2012. In connection with the renovation, all retail premises, facades, entrances and the cooling sys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Block
A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. A city block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets, not counting any type of thoroughfare within the area of a building or comparable structure. City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban fabric. City blocks may be subdivided into any number of smaller land lots usually in private ownership, though in some cases, it may be other forms of tenure. City blocks are usually built-up to varying degrees and thus form the physical containers or "streetwalls" of public space. Most cities are composed of a greater or lesser variety of sizes and shapes of urban block. For example, many pre-industrial cores of cities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East tend to have irregularly shaped street patterns and urban blocks, while cities based on grids have much more regular arran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchor Tenant
In retail, an "anchor tenant", sometimes called an "anchor store", "draw tenant", or "key tenant", is a considerably larger tenant in a shopping mall, often a department store or retail chain. They are typically located at the ends of malls. With their broad appeal, they are intended to attract a significant cross-section of the shopping public to the center. They are often offered steep discounts on rent in exchange for signing long-term leases in order to provide steady cash flows for the mall owners. Some examples of anchor stores in the United States are Macy's, Sears, JCPenney, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue. Origins When the planned shopping centre format was developed by Victor Gruen in the early to mid-1950s, signing larger department stores was necessary for the financial stability of the projects, and to draw retail traffic that would result in visits to the smaller shops in the centre as well. Anchors generally have their rents heavily discounted, and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Estate
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general."Real estate": Oxford English Dictionary online: Retrieved September 18, 2011 In terms of law, ''real'' is in relation to land property and is different from personal property while ''estate'' means the "interest" a person has in that land property. Real estate is different from personal property, which is not permanently attached to the land, such as vehicles, boats, jewelry, furniture, tools and the rolling stock of a farm. In the United States, the transfer, owning, or acquisition of real estate can be through business corporations, individuals, nonprofit corporations, fiduciaries, or any legal entity as seen within the law of each U.S. state. History of real estate The natural right of a person t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCC (company)
NCC AB is a Swedish construction company, the second largest in the Nordic region with annual revenues (2020) of 53,9 billion SEK and about 14 500 employees. NCC develops and builds residential and commercial properties, industrial facilities and public buildings, roads, civil engineering structures and other types of infrastructure. NCC also offers input materials used in construction, such as aggregates and asphalt, and conducts paving. NCC conducts operations in the Nordic region. Among its biggest competitors are AF Gruppen, Skanska, Peab, Per Aarsleff, Veidekke and YIT. History The origins of NCC Construction go back to 1890 when Axel Johnson, a Swedish businessman, established "Nordstjernan" - the North Star. Later, this company became one of the leading Nordic shipping companies. In late 1987, Nordstjernan AB began acquiring shares in the listed construction company Armerad Betong Vägförbättringar (ABV). At the time, Nordstjernan had its own construction compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skanska
Skanska AB () is a multinational construction and development company based in Sweden. Skanska is the fifth-largest construction company in the world according to ''Construction Global'' magazine. Notable Skanska projects include renovation of the United Nations Headquarters, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub project, Moynihan Train Hall, 30 St Mary Axe, MetLife Stadium, Mater Dei Hospital, among others. History Aktiebolaget Skånska Cementgjuteriet (Scanian Cement Casting Ltd) was established in Malmö, Sweden, in 1887 by Rudolf Fredrik Berg and started by manufacturing concrete products.Skanska: History It quickly diversified into a construction company and within ten years the company received its first international order. The company played an important role in building Sweden's infrastructure i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citycon
Citycon Oyj owns, develops, and manages shopping centers and other retail properties in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, and Denmark. The company primarily rents its properties to retailers. Citycon owns more than 50 shopping centres and 2 other retail properties. Of the shopping centres, 19 are located in Finland, 19 in Norway, 9 in Sweden, including Kista Galleria, 2 in Estonia, 1 in Denmark and 1 in Lithuania ( Mandarinas). In addition, Citycon leases and manages 13 shopping centres in Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ... on behalf of other owners. Citycon’s shopping centres attract approximately 200 million visitors annually. History Citycon was founded in 1988 by the Insurance Company Sampo Pension Ltd, Imatran Voima Oy, Rakennustoimisto A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampere Bus Station
The Tampere Bus Station ( fi, Tampereen linja-autoasema) is a bus station in the city center of Tampere, Finland, located in the Ratina district along the Hatanpää Highway. It takes about 20 minutes by bus to Tampere Airport from the bus station. The bus station, designed by and Bertel Strömmer, representing functionalist architecture, was completed in 1938,Ossi Säpyskä: ''Pirkanmaan autoliikenteen vaiheet'', p. 203–204. Pirkanmaan autoalan veteraanit ry., Tampere, 1988. ISBN 952-90019-3-2. (in Finnish) and is now a protected cultural site as well as an architectural attraction. When completed, it was also the largest bus station in the Nordic countries. The bus station was at its busiest in the late 1960s, with around 470 departures on normal weekdays. By the end of the 1980s, the number had shrunk to less than 400, mainly due to an increase in the car traffic, but also partly due to the relocation of some local routes to the Pyynikintori square. When the cargo handling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratina Stadium
Tampere Stadium ( fi, Tampereen stadion), also known as Ratina Stadium ( fi, Ratinan stadion), designed by architect Timo Penttilä and completed in 1965, is a multi-purpose stadium in Tampere, Finland, with a seating capacity of 16,800 people, and up to 32,000 people for concerts. In 2018, the stadium hosted the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships, IAAF World U20 Championships. Football The stadium primarily hosts association football, football matches. It served as Tampere United, Tampere United's home stadium and it will be the home stadium for Finland national football team, Finnish national team between 2016 and 2018 due to the renovation of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The stadium was also formerly used by FC Ilves, Ilves, which holds the record attendances for football matches in both European and domestic competitions: 24,873 against Juventus F.C., Juventus on 19 September 1984 in the 1984–85 European Cup, European Cup and 15,000 against Kokkolan Palloveikot on 9 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
