THE BLUE LINE – SEASIDE TROMSØ
”Tromsø assumes the national and European task of creating the largest and most spectacular arctic park  the world has seen, and do so in cooperation with milieus and institutions in all European countries with a history and research  in the arctic areas”
Esben Helmersen, Member of Tromsø City Council, in the chronicle:
”The Year of Urban Development – a year of new ideas”

This concept is now being discussed as a possibilty to be realised as a joint venture between the institutions of education and research and the political parties. In this context a new large urban field along the shore including the Polar Institute, the Polar Environment Centre and the new city theatre has been selected and attributed new significance. The entire city sea front is being transformed. The arctic park, The Fish and Sea Centre and the open round on the future role of the old wharf site relate to the pressure from the outside. The Year of Urban Development and the pressure from the inside reinforce the intentions.
The new maritime Tromsø is on the road towards discovery. Nevertheless, several of the concepts exist in a room of potentiality that may erode without the inception of new forms of collaboration and novel models of investment.