Koszalin's strategic projects

Koszalin has been proactively involved, for many years, in improvement of communication accessibility and, what is associated therewith, in improvement of tourist attractiveness, as well as dwellers' safety and natural environment protection. Such activity is perfectly matched with the proposed EU Strategy for the BSR. The main Strategy assumptions are also the priorities for the municipality and they match up with the Strategy for Municipality Development and subsequent editions of the operational programme called Plan for Local Municipality Development. It is a priority for the municipality authorities to strive for improvement of Koszalin's attractiveness and, at the same time, the living standards of city dwellers.

As one of the most important tasks, re-opening of the civil aviation airport in Zegrze Pomorskie near Koszalin has been considered. In accordance with the preliminary forecasts putting the airport in operation will not only improve the tourist attractiveness but will result also in an outright increase of its economic potential. Additionally, the municipality has been striving for raising of external funds for construction and reconstruction of roads improving the communication accessibility.

Last year a railway connection with the nearby seaside resort Mielno Koszaliñskie was opened. An important element of municipality's strategic activities has also been to initiate a ferry line across lake Jamno, which has been scheduled for this year. This will make an element of the future Koszalin Riviera i.e. a network of traffic connections between the seaside localities. The municipality also makes efforts to build an aquapark in Koszalin, which will definitely be an attraction, both for the city dwellers and tourists. All those actions serve the development of intraregional traffic facilities and improvement of the region's cohesion and, at the same time, are aimed at making the city a supraregional tourist traffic service centre. The city authorities put a great pressure on development of the social and cultural spheres of life, therefore, one of the already accomplished operations was a thorough modernisation of the Baltic Theatre of Drama and in the near future a sport and show hall, as well as the Koszalin Philharmonics edifice will be constructed. All those projects have been co-financed with the external funds.