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Gdynia Chwarzno-Wiczlino workshop - postponed to another date
February 24, 2020
Due to the spread of coronavirus in Poland, the President of the City of Gdynia announced that the Gdynia Chwarzno-Wiczlino workshop, which was to take place on 20 March 2020, was postponed to another date. We will inform you about the new date of the workshop as soon as possible.
The goal of the workshop, under the patronage of the ULI Poland, is a discussion with specialists in the field of urban planning and architecture, the real estate market, the world of science and business, as well as consulting companies, on directions of spatial development of Chwarzno-Wiliczno district, which according to the urban spatial policy defined in the Study of conditions and directions of spatial development in Gdynia, is indicated as an area of special opportunities for the development of metropolitan services.
Currently, cities are focusing on a holistic approach in terms of creating a vision of development - searching for new forms and functions for areas. This is a matter that is important in the issue of implementing the principles of sustainable development and improving the quality of life in cities.
Gdynia is one of the youngest Polish cities with about 245 000 inhabitants.
The Chwarzno-Wiczlino district is the area of the main direction of Gdynia’s development, the dominant development of the residential function requires supplementing with accompanying service functions, ensuring commercial needs and new jobs places.
The city of Gdynia owns an area of approximately 60 ha, located in the Chwarzno-Wiczlino district. The area is located in the vicinity of the Tri-City Bypass (about 1 km from the Chwarzno junction), forest areas of the Tri-City Landscape Park and areas of dynamic development of housing estates (more than 500 new inhabitants every year, the highest dynamics of population growth on a city scale).
According to the urban spatial policy defined in the Study of conditions and directions of spatial development in Gdynia, the area is indicated as an area of special opportunities for the development of metropolitan services with the indication of functions such as university campus, science campus, older people health care (AgeTech) along with housing facilities, development of production and service functions using advanced technologies and excluding oppressive functions.
The potential of the area resulting from its investment scale and location indicates the need to work out development directions in the discussion with the participation of specialists in the field of urban planning and architecture, the real estate market, the world of science and business as well as consulting companies.
If you have any question, please contact the City of Gdynia representative
IWONA MARKEŠIĆ – e-mail: [email protected]