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Hala Targowa in Gdańsk has reopened after 18 months of renovation work carried out by Apsys Polska.
The revitalisation cost 141 million złoty and was the most extensive in the building's 130-year history, carried out under the supervision of the regional heritage conservation authority. On its first day back, the hall drew 25,700 visitors.
Three Levels, 34 Concepts
The hall now operates across three floors with a mix of food, retail and cultural uses:
- Ground floor: 17 street food outlets covering cuisines from multiple countries, plus two bars
- Upper level: four table-service restaurants
- Lower level: a delicatessen area with 10 retail units and a bar
- Two internal stages for cultural and entertainment events
Two external squares extend the offer. Plac Dominikański serves as a public space for seasonal food trucks and a summer stage. The northern square will soon host Zielony Rynek, a dedicated fruit and vegetable market.
Heritage Restored, Technology Added
Renovation work included cleaning the steel structure, restoring historic market kiosks to their original positions, exposing brick pillars and fully modernising technical infrastructure throughout.
Interior design was handled by Boris Kudlička with Partners. The lower level already features an interactive historical panel, a museum exhibition on the city's culinary traditions and exposed relics of a 12th-century Romanesque church discovered during the works.
From September, a mobile application called Ha!Apka will allow guests to place orders from multiple food outlets simultaneously.
The hall's historic vaulted ceiling will also become a canvas for projection mapping shows, layering a new cultural programme onto one of the city's oldest structures.
What the Reopening Represents
Joanna Tymińska, director of Hala Targowa, said more than 25,000 guests on the first day confirmed that Gdańsk had been waiting for the hall to return, and that the priority now is making it a place people choose to come back to.
Benoît Charles, CEO of Apsys Polska, said the task was to preserve the building's character and its 130 years of history while creating something that responds to the needs of today's residents and visitors.
For a company that has spent three decades creating places rooted in the identity of their cities, the Hala Targowa reopening sits at the centre of what that approach looks like in practice: a building that belongs to the city's past, re-opened for its future.
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