Business services

Development work through regional cooperation

The business services in the Turku region have been centralised, which means that the City of Raisio purchases these services from Turku Science Park Oy. Turku Science Park offers help to the companies in the region in all different fields and at all stages of their life cycle. Turku Science Park has services for a starting company, growth and development services as well as services for internationalisation. Turku Science Park also coordinates the several regional spearhead projects in the Turku region.

The City of Raisio’s appointed contact person is:

• Business Advisor Maarit Tontti, tel. +358 50 559 0297
  
  maarit.tontti(at)turkusciencepark.com

For more information on services and regional spearhead business fields, visit Turku Business Region (turkubusinessregion.com) or contact the City of Raisio’s Manager of Economic Development and Growth, Samu Mattila.

Business plots and facilities

Five reasons to settle in Raisio

1. Logistics connections: airport, two ports, railways and highways to every direction within a ten-kilometre radius
2. Large potential customer base
3. Availability of competent, trained personnel
4. The City’s quick and flexible decision-making ability and willingness to cooperate
5. Excellent business atmosphere

V8 road’s business area

More than 100 hectares of office and production facilities

A 110-hectare employment area with plenty of new business plots will be built along the busy highway 8. The area has a great deal of roaring power already, as the Raisio motordrome is located close by.

An unsurpassed logistic centre

Raisio has an airport, two ports and railways within a ten-kilometre radius. The new V8 business area is also located centrally when it comes to road traffic: highway 8 and E18 enable quick and efficient travel to e.g. Pori, Tampere, Hämeenlinna and Helsinki. You will also have an easy access to Kustavintie’s busy archipelago connection.

The vision for Raisio city centre offers green meeting places

Raisio will have a unique opportunity to renew the city centre. The E18 road going through the centre will become a tunnel during the 2020s. This will lead to an exceptional situation where new land areas will become available in the heart of the city. The public transport development of the Turku region could also bring a tramline or super bus lines to the centre of Raisio. These changes require zoning, and to support this, the city compiled a city centre vision. In this vision, the centre of Raisio is a green, easily accessible centre of innovation and a meeting place.

This centre vision covers the areas near the tunnel as well as some areas surrounding Varppeenaukio, Tasalanaukio and Soliniuksenkuja. The tunnel will begin at the junction of Raisiontie and E18 road, and it will be about 450 metres long.

The new city centre vision of Raisio utilises the city’s excellent accessibility but also connects the city centre to the surrounding green areas. The diverse green areas, city block parks and green corridors of the new centre structure will create a unique identity for the area.

The key sections of the new Raisio will be the high buildings in the city centre, acting as the gateway to the centre, and the winter garden between them that has a view to the park that will be built above the tunnel. The park will bring the city centre’s structure together and create a large green area in the middle of Raisio. The other areas in the centre will also be coordinated as a series of urban spaces. New kinds of townhouse residential blocks will surround the central park. The building stock in the commercial centre will be renewed and made denser in time.

Implementing this city centre vision is a gradually built project that will take place over many decades. If the E18 road project stays on schedule, the construction in Raisio city centre will begin in 2021. Once the tunnel is completed, the construction of the central park and the winter garden situated above the tunnel could be started. In the next phase, the city centre structure can be made denser, for example by constructing new residential blocks near the park and by developing the service areas. The third stage of the vision will be the construction in the blocks on the western side of the park.

View images of the city centre vision