Tripla, the urban center opening in autumn 2019 in Pasila, Helsinki, will host a globally unique concept that combines surfing, an indoor beach, and a pleasant 26-degree temperature around the year.
Helsinki SurfBeach will be constructed into a vacant metro tunnel excavated under the Mall of Tripla. Now, more than two years before the opening, over 50 percent of the Mall of Tripla has been leased out. Helsinki SurfBeach is a globally unique project that utilizes areas of the over 6,000-square-meter metro tunnel excavated under the Mall of Tripla. Helsinki SurfBeach offers possibilities to surf and play beach volleyball on an indoor beach in 26-degree temperatures all year round. In addition, an indoor adventure park for families, HopLop, will take over 3,000 square meters of the metro level with its new concept.
”Mall of Tripla is happy to welcome a new kind of concept that gives people an opportunity to play summer sports all year round, even in Finland. Shopping centers need to rethink themselves to meet people’s social needs. The Mall of Tripla will become an urban center offering not only extensive shopping and restaurant services but also vibrant cultural activities, a Finnish music museum, a unique indoor activity center, and easy connections,” says Pirjo Aalto, Commercial Development Director.
The founders of the indoor summer concept being built into the Mall of Tripla are Finnish Beach Volley Ltd. and the Surf House Concept. Finnish Beach Volley Ltd. currently runs one indoor beach in Helsinki, and another will open in Tallinn this autumn. The Surf House Concept was created by a group of restaurant business and marketing professionals. It has built two wave machine centers in Thailand and is planning several similar projects, for example, in Australia and the Canary Islands. ”The beach in Pasila will have the world’s best conditions for playing beach volleyball. It will be the fourth generation indoor summer, including beach volleyball fields, a beach bar, saunas, and meeting rooms for various business and private events. Cooperation with Surf House has been in our plans for a while now, and finally, we can bring the water close to our beaches. This will hopefully be one of many new concepts together,” tells Ilkka Lassila, Chairman of the Board, of Finnish Beach Volley Ltd.
Janne Miikkulainen, CEO of Sick-X Pte Ltd, the company behind the Surf House Concept, expresses her excitement about launching their unique concept in an equally unique location: an underground tunnel within a transport hub in Pasila. Tripla, a three-block complex that will be completed in stages in Central Pasila between 2019 and 2020, consists of a shopping center, a parking garage, a public transportation hub, housing, a hotel, and offices. The Mall of Tripla, as well as the connected parking garage and public transportation hub, will open in the autumn of 2019. A total of 40,000 square meters of Mall of Tripla’s premises have been leased out, and its economic occupancy rate has exceeded 50 percent.
