YIT Signs a Pre-Agreement with Dutch Hotel Chain

Wasa Station visualisation aerial.

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YIT Signs a Pre-Agreement with Dutch Hotel Chain

Finland — YIT and Odyssey Hotel Group, a Dutch hotel chain, have signed a pre-agreement on August 23, 2019, on the rental of premises in the planned Wasa Station block in Vaasa, Finland, for hotel use. The agreement concerns 198 hotel rooms on floors 0–12 of the tower, including restaurant and service facilities and covering approximately 7,000 square metres. The hotel chain has numerous hotels and brands in Europe. The brand of the future hotel in Wasa Station will be confirmed and published later.

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“We are happy that we now can move forward with the hotel in Vaasa,” says Rick van Erp, CEO of the Odyssey Hotel Group.

“The hotel will be an important part of Wasa Station, so we are pleased to welcome Odyssey as a hotel operator to Ostrobothnia and Vaasa,” says Regional Director Mikael Snellman from YIT.

YIT is planning to build Wasa Station, a new urban multipurpose block spread over three hectares at the site of the old bus station in Vaasa, Finland. When completed, Wasa Station’s 25-storey tower would be a local landmark.

The plan for Wasa Station is to create a meeting place and event centre that includes a music and congress centre as well as sports and multipurpose facilities. The tower at the southern end of the block will consist of a hotel with approximately 100 apartments above it.

A service and shopping centre is planned for the middle of the block.

Anthon Näsström

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