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The strongest conditions for a profitable hotel business are on the edge of the market, in Paavola and Ranta-Kartano.
The hotel survey commissioned by the city of Lahti has been completed. The report examines the city’s own and private plots zoned for hotel operations from the point of view of where the business would be most profitable.
According to the report, the best conditions for a profitable hotel operation are right in the core center on Rauhankatu, at the corner of Aleksanterinkatu. The private property is currently rented out by the apartment hotel company Forenom, which also offers rooms for longer-term accommodation.
– The location serves business visitors, day visitors and event audiences. The sports center, Sibelius building and downtown events are close by, Honkanen lists the advantages of the first location.
The next most potential locations are the city plot in Ranta-Kartano and the Paavola area, where Luhta Kiinteistöt has previously said that it is planning a hotel. At the moment, the weakest possibilities seem to be in Mukkula, on the city’s hotel lot located on the edge of the event park.
During major events, the capacity of Lahti’s current hotels will not be enough. In connection with the profitability analysis, it has emerged that there would be enough customers for one new hotel in Lahti to begin with.
– It may be that the next one will have to wait a while for a market to emerge. The first project has an advantage, planning director Honkanen states.
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The tunnel is open for light traffic during the renovation. The goal is to complete the lighting renovation in the tunnel as soon as possible.
Lahti’s Mustankallio tunnel is closed to vehicle traffic from early Monday, August 29.
The lighting renovation in the tunnel has started on Monday morning, the estimated duration of which is 2–3 weeks. The work is done 20 hours a day in order to complete the renovation as quickly as possible.
During the renovation, pedestrians and cyclists can pass through the tunnel, which can be noisy and poorly lit, however.
The tunnel’s lighting technology will be modernized with LED lights. Destia Oy acts as the contractor for the renovation.
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Sotkamo still had the fourth highest number of overnight stays in Finland between January and July.
The event, which went almost smoothly, gathered around 10,000 festival guests in Kajaani over the weekend. Apulanta had to stop his gig on Friday for safety reasons.
Disagreement with the city of Lahti regarding Pippo-Kujala’s plot promise is delaying the company’s investment and, according to the company, will bring additional costs of millions.
The department store chain Kärkkäinen is now investigating other than Lahti as a location for its new logistics center.
The company and the city of Lahti disagree on whether the company was promised a plot in Pippo-Kujala or not. The city has made an agreement on the plot with Fazer, which will build a new confectionery factory on it.
Kärkkäinen has filed an appeal against the city board’s decision regarding the plot. According to the company, the matter is pending in the administrative court.
Due to the situation, the company is surveying the supply of both Lahti and other cities as a location for the logistics center.
The company said in the spring of 2021 that it had expansion plans next to its department store located in Renkomäki, Lahti. The decision to expand has not yet been made.
– There are no prerequisites for the decision yet, because the plan change is awaiting the decisions of the city’s institutions. The formula change itself should be clear, writes CFO Ilvesluoto in his answer.
_Edited at 9:44: Verb added to title._
_Edited 30.8. 13:49: Refined the company’s estimate that the costs of 2-3 million euros per year from the delay period._
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After two years overshadowed by the corona restrictions, schools are now also participating in the competition. The winner will be announced at the beginning of October.
Three sites are competing for the Finlandia Award for Architecture this year. The candidates are the Jätkäsaari school in Helsinki, the Serlachius art sauna in Mänttä and the renovation of the library at the University of Jyväskylä.
In the previous two years, the selection of candidates has been affected by the corona period restrictions. Now the preselection committee has once again been able to get to know schools, kindergartens, hospitals and nursing homes, which is also reflected in the selected candidates.
For the Eränkävijät director, band time was a school of teamwork, the lessons of which helped him become a successful media entrepreneur. The seventh season of the favorite series starts in October.
On the other hand, the statement would be completely correct, because Hostikka has progressed from a high-profile musician and album cover designer through Oulu Kärppi’s match videos to an internationally awarded TV producer by being in the right place at the right time.
In those places, however, Hostikka has worked tirelessly, managed to gather the right team around him and channeled his enthusiasm and creativity into products that almost every Finn knows.
– I have always been able to work with people much more talented than myself. I can say that I was the worst player in the band, but I did the most songs and the others could play them better than me. Maybe it’s the same today, Hostikka reflects.
At first, Hostikka only employed herself. Now, NTRNZ Media’s core team consists of twenty permanent employees at the Oulu head office – or wherever everyone thinks is best to work – and a close group of freelancers.
The office space in the old station building is more like a home than a workplace, and it suits professionals doing creative work well. The tapping of keyboards echoes on large-patterned wallpapers and half-panel walls.
– Here is a nice symbiosis of very modern industry and state-of-the-art technology and traditional old architecture. At the same time, when data is moving with the optical fiber, the workroom is heated with the stove.
The mood is quite relaxed anyway. Hostikka strives to have a four-day work week, although she admits that it has slipped from time to time. He also offers the opportunity for free working time to his subordinates.
– If you fill up the calendar for the whole week, you won’t get anything creative done. All creativity springs from a certain kind of boredom. If it’s even a quarter of a day boring, then something new and cool will be born, Hostikka reasons.
The interview day is Friday. The director-producer often spends it somewhere else than at the office, for example paddling in the Oulujoki estuary.
All hobbies are somehow connected to nature, and following nature hobbies, Hostikka moved to her current place of residence in Kittilä Rauhala some time ago.
– There are clearly four seasons. In the coastal cities there is such an eternal autumn, it rained for a very long time. There it might pass in a week.
Kjell Westö’s first memory is driving to see his mother in a psychiatric hospital. Mårten is lying in the basket on the back seat.
Aleksanteri theater has been in need of renovation for a long time. The new owner says that there are plans to renovate the property.
