Background

The neighbourhood of Nordvest has a rich and varied business life with some 17.000 jobs. The companies are mainly situated in three older business areas also containing some of the oldest buildings in the neighbourhood. The older business areas were built from 1900 onwards and are a mixture of different kinds of businesses and a mixture of business and residential buildings.

The mixture of business and residential areas used to be a problem because of noise and pollution, but apart from a few examples – such as car-painting companies – this is no longer a problem. The mixture gives the neighbourhood a more dynamic and mixed character and might have a possibility to develop into an attractive neighbourhood.

Apart from the many companies in the business area there is a number of public institutions in the neighbourhood – the biggest of which is Bispebjerg Hospital with a staff of over 3500.

It is difficult to characterise the companies in the neighbourhood in a few words. Many lines of business are represented. Previously it was production and industry, but today it is mainly service – that is offices.

Of the production companies in the neighbourhood only a few are companies which are noisy or demand a lot of space. Typically it is companies such as producers of elevators and escalators – and companies that have greater Copenhagen as their working area.

There are a considerable number of companies using the synergy of being close to each other as customers and suppliers and using the proximity of the central city and the expertise of newly education workforce in the city.

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