Ülemiste City is a

business park A business park or office park is a designated area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. These types of developments are often located in suburban areas where land and building costs are more affordable, and are typicall ...

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

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, on the territory of the former factory complex Dvigatel in

Ülemiste Ülemiste is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Lasnamäe, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf ...

neighbourhood. It is situated between

Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport Tallinn Airport ( et, Tallinna lennujaam, ) or Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport ( et, Lennart Meri Tallinna lennujaam) is the largest airport in Estonia, which serves as a hub for the national airline Nordica, as well as the secondary hub for Air ...

, shopping centre Ülemiste Keskus and the Ülemiste railway station, forming the core of the Ülemiste subdistrict.

History

The factory complex Dvigatel, built in the end of the 19th century for producing railway cars and other machinery for the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, lost its ''raison d’être'' after

regained its independence from the

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in 1991. After its privatization and some unsuccessful attempts to restore former production capacities, the new owners decided to reprofile the business. In 2005, AS Mainor launched the transformation of the favourably-located 36 ha old industrial area into a modern technology campus, drawing inspiration from

Kista Kista () is a district in the borough of Rinkeby-Kista, Stockholm, Sweden. It has a strategic position located in between Sweden's main airport, the Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport and central Stockholm, and alongside the main natio ...

near Stockholm, called the

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of the Nordic countries. In 2010, the

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company Technopolis was included in the development of the business park.

Current campus

The mission of Ülemiste City is to create a knowledge-based environment with an international reach for working, living and development that would increase the competitiveness of people and businesses, attract talented people and inspire the creation of new business models.Ülemiste City concept, http://ulemistecity.ee/en/innovators/ulemiste-city-kontseptsioon/ As of 2014, there are 300 businesses with 6,000 employees working on 82,000 m² of office spaces. A range of services for businesses and employees are available. The

Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences (EUAS, et, Eesti Ettevõtluskõrgkool Mainor, formerly known in English as Mainor Business School) is a private vocational university located in the Ülemiste City business park in Tallin ...

Tallinn European School Tallinn European School ( et, Tallinna Euroopa Kool), or TES, is a private, Accredited European School in Tallinn, Estonia. Founded in 2013, it is an all-through school which offers a multicultural and multilingual education leading to the Eur ...

and Kalli-Kalli kindergarten are located in Ülemiste City. The campus also houses the E-Estonia showroom and Estonia’s biggest restaurant Dvigatel.

, Ülemiste Keskus – the biggest shopping centre in

–, the largest interchange in

, Ülemiste railway station and Hotel Ülemiste are all situated in the immediate vicinity. Ülemiste City is developed by two separate companies. A third of the territory is being developed by Technopolis Ülemiste AS, 51% of which is owned by the Finnish company Technopolis Plc. Two thirds of the campus is being developed by Mainor Ülemiste AS, the majority shareholder being AS Mainor.Ülemiste City - introduction, http://ulemistecity.ee/en/innovators/ulemiste-city-tutvustus/

Future perspectives

The vision of Ülemiste City is to grow into a multifunctional campus operating 24/7, incorporating 15,000 employees of different businesses and organisations as well as 5,000 inhabitants. In the near future, many important infrastructure projects (

Rail Baltica Rail Baltica (also known as Rail Baltic in Estonia) is a high-speed railway under construction between Warsaw, Poland and Tallinn, Estonia, with further connections to Finland via Baltic Sea cruiseferries or the proposed Helsinki–Tallinn Tunn ...

passenger terminal, extension of a tramline through Ülemiste City to the airport) and other real-estate developments are planned in the Ülemiste area.Ülemiste supervaksalist tuleb trammitee lennujaama, Postimees 26.03.2013 http://tallinncity.postimees.ee/1181714/ulemiste-supervaksalist-tuleb-trammitee-lennujaama

Trivia

The buildings in Ülemiste City are named after prodigies of Estonian science and innovation. For instance, buildings bearing the names of Ludvig Puusepp,

Walter Zapp Walter Zapp ( lv, Valters Caps; – 17 July 2003) was a Baltic German inventor. His greatest creation was the Minox subminiature camera. Biography Zapp was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia (now Latvia). In 1932, while living i ...

Ragnar Nurkse Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse (, Käru, Estonia (then Russian Empire) – 6 May 1959, Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland) was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is cons ...

, , , Artur Lind, , Johannes Käis, Boris Tamm,

Bernhard Schmidt Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (, Nargen – 1 December 1935, Hamburg) was an Estonian optician. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for t ...

and

Ernst Öpik Ernst Julius Öpik ( – 10 September 1985) was an Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career (1948–1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. Education Öpik was born in Kunda, Lääne-Viru, Go ...

can be found on the campus.

References

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