The Oil Silo 468 light artwork welcomes visitors once again. The artwork is built into an old silo of a former oil terminal in the eastern Helsinki district of Kruunuvuorenranta.

The City of Helsinki has been chosen to host the annual World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit in 2019. At the same time, it was announced that Chinese Internet giant Tencent has chosen Helsinki as the partner city for its new mobile application.

The proposal will now proceed to the City Council, which will discuss it on 27 September. The vision of the strategy is to make Helsinki the most functional city in the world. "The vision speaks to every city resident, to the trade and industry, as well as to everyone who visits our city. Day by day, Helsinki has to be a better city for all of us", says Vapaavuori.

Ruuti has been reformed, and the autumn of 2017 will bring changes especially to the RuutiExpo event and the process to elect the Ruuti core group.

The English section of the Helsinki-info bulletin’s new edition presents plans for smarter mobility in Helsinki. The edition also presents a new proactive campaign to counter hate speech.

Helsinki is the most liveable city in the Nordic region and the ninth best in the world. Safe and functional, Helsinki’s advantage as it competes to become the new home of the European Medicines Agency is precisely the quality of life here.

The commissioning of the West Metro has proceeded to the stage in which Helsinki City Transport HKL has been able to start its preparations for the commencement of Metro service. It is estimated that service could commence no earlier than the end of September.

The City of Helsinki's enterprise agency NewCo Helsinki has created the online publication ”Immigrant Entrepreneurs – How to become an entrepreneur in Finland?” for immigrants who are considering starting up a business in Finland.