Helsinki Surf Beach will utilize areas of the over 6,000 square-metre metro tunnel excavated under the Mall of Tripla. Helsinki SurfBeach offers possibilities to surf and play beach volley on an indoor beach and in addition, an indoor adventure park for families, HopLop, will take over 3,000 square metres 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 centres need to rethink themselves in order to meet people’s social needs. Mall of Tripla will become an urban centre offering not only extensive shopping and restaurant services but also vibrant cultural activities, a Finnish music museum, a unique indoor activity centre, 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 beach in Pasila will have the world’s best conditions for playing beach volley. It will be a fourth generation indoor summer, including beach volley fields, a beach bar, saunas, and meeting rooms for various business and private events. A 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, Finnish Beach Volley Ltd.
 
Tripla, a three-block complex that will be completed in stages in Central Pasila between 2019 and 2020, consists of a shopping centre, a parking garage, public transportation hub, housing, a hotel, and offices. 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 metres of Mall of Tripla’s premises have been leased out, and its economic occupancy rate has exceeded 50 percent.