Galataport

Galataport is an urban transformation/destination project located on the 1.2 kilometer coastline between the Istanbul Karaköy Ferry Terminal and the building belonging to Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Fındıklı Campus in Karaköy, an important part of Galata, founded by Genoese people in the 12th century.

Warehouses were built in this region, which has been the most important industrial transportation and transportation area of ​​Istanbul since the 1900s, but after the region was declared a tourism center in 1982 and the customs port lost its functions, the region was declared an Urban Protected Area. It started to become active in the 2000s and then started to host Istanbul Modern, Turkey's first modern art museum, which opened in 2004. It was also the only point in Istanbul where cruise ships anchored.

The project, which aims to open the coastline, which has been closed to the public for many years, is planned with an investment amount of 1.7 billion dollars, as the main function of the cruise terminal on the Bosphorus, and the waiting areas and ticketing counters serving it. Galataport, which was designed in the concept of a neighborhood with its low-rise buildings in accordance with the historical texture, also has extensive transportation opportunities and an underground terminal, which was implemented for the first time in the world. It is predicted that it will host a total of 25 million visitors annually, 7 million of which are foreigners, and 1.5 million cruise passengers will visit Istanbul. Galataport, which is expected to make an additional contribution of 5 billion dollars only to the tourism sector, was opened in October 2021 and started to offer a culture-art, working, shopping and eating and drinking experience for all its domestic and foreign visitors.