The health and wellbeing centre will open in spring 2027, once the operator has done its part to prepare the premises to welcome the staff and clients. The building also includes rental premises for a pharmacy – a pharmacist is currently being sought to run a pharmacy in the building.
The work started in January 2024 with the demolition of the metro station’s ticket hall. This was preceded by approximately a year of work to relocate the old technical systems in the area.
The early completion of the building is the result of many factors
The site is situated in a particularly challenging and busy location in the city centre, next to prestigious buildings and an operational metro station and public transport tunnel.
“The excellent solution-oriented cooperation between the project’s main contractor YIT and the other parties has contributed significantly to the smooth implementation of the project. The project also benefited from careful advance planning during the development and implementation phase and the simplification of complex issues whenever it was necessary to plan and make decisions in different phases of the project,” says Project Director Tuomo Salonpää from the City of Helsinki.
“We have done an excellent job in managing the schedule and execution of the project. During the construction, we proactively developed solutions for the relocation of technical systems, excavation, the building’s framework and the installation of the metro station’s escalators, among other things. I would like to commend the parties involved – the cooperation with the client, operator, designers and subcontractors has been excellent and smooth,” describes Project Director Jukka Niemelä from YIT.
He further states that: “I can provide those moving about the area with the delightful news that not only will the metro station entrance be completed, the refurbished Kampinkuja underground route to shopping centre Kamppi will also open for use as early as autumn 2026.”
Renovated and pleasant street areas – the street project will be completed by the end of 2026
In August 2025, another project of the City of Helsinki kicked off next to the new building, implemented by YIT: the project will renovate and redevelop the street areas surrounding the health and wellbeing centre and the square on the side of the Autotalo building.
The two construction projects will proceed at the same time to minimise the inconvenience caused to the city’s residents by the work at the two construction sites.
Kamppi Health and Wellbeing Centre is being built at the address Salomonkatu 8. It will provide residents of the city centre with a wide range of easily accessible and modern public health and social welfare services with long opening hours.
You can follow the progress of these projects at:
www.yit.fi/kampinthk(Link leads to external service)
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