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Gdańsk

Gdańsk's national topographic database flags only 11 buildings as out of use and 32 as ruined in the whole city (records of 13 December 2024) — far fewer than its Polish peers — so the stronger evidence is named buildings: the City-owned Dwór Fischera in Nowy Port, empty since its last residents were evicted in 2006; the Owsiana block on Granary Island, whose old buildings the City itself called vacant when it put them to tender at PLN 24m in 2025; and a Wrzeszcz villa empty since 1996. The City's sale list held 18 offers on 9 October 2026, almost all plots and flats. Offices in the Tricity stand 10.4% vacant, about 112,000 m² (BNP Paribas Real Estate, Q2 2026).
An empty building in Gdańsk with homes, balconies and neighbours drawn onto it in ink

Empty buildings in Gdańsk

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Colour = type of building named officially likely reported
Missing a building?

One point per building, from public records, open data and cited reports. Open one to see who says so and whether it could become homes.

Check any building in Gdańsk: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

4 more buildings in Gdańsk reported in the news, not yet on the map

The articles do not give an address we could place, so these have no pin yet. From news reports, summed up in our own words with a link to each article — not checked on site by EHC.

  • dawna siedziba Amber Gold — reported demolition planned · formerly office · Company-ownedDemolition of the gold-glazed 1990s postmodern block that housed Amber Gold has been agreed; the plot was rezoned for housing in 2023. Architektura & Biznes (2026-05)
  • galeria handlowa na Chełmie — reported demolition planned · formerly retailHeadline: an unwanted shopping arcade in the Chełm district will soon be torn down. Trojmiasto.pl (2026-08-15)
  • pustostan przy Słowackiego i Reymonta, Słowackiego / Reymonta — reported emptyAn empty building at the corner of Słowackiego and Reymonta caught fire twice on one March 2025 evening. Dziennik Bałtycki (2025-03-12)
  • pustostan przy ul. Ogińskiego, Ogińskiego — reported emptyFirefighters battled a blaze in a vacant building on Ogińskiego street in the Siedlce district in June 2024. Dziennik Bałtycki (2024-06-18)
Empty buildings on record
421
from 12 open sources
Vacant office space
112,000 m²
10.4% of the stock
Homes potential
—
not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, end of Q2 2026 — Tricity (Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot) 10.4% of the stock vacant, about 112,000 m² (read from the report chart); the eight-city regional average is 17.3%. Prime rent in the Tricity is EUR 16.5 per m² a month. Map built 2026-11-06.

Where conversion makes sense, and who to talk to

The districts where empty space, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together, and the owners and programmes that open a door. 112,000 m² of offices stand empty (10.4% of the stock).

A hand outlining a neighbourhood on a city map, with small houses drawn inside

Śródmieście — Wyspa Spichrzów and Długi Targ

The City's own empty old buildings on the Owsiana block (five plots, 6,760 m²) went to tender in 2025, and a 1,346 m² office-service building at Długi Targ 41/42 was offered by the Maritime University in 2026 — both inside the historic centre, on a rail and tram hub.

  • Owsiana block: five plots, 6,760 m², starting price PLN 24m, tender 11 June 2025
  • Długi Targ 41/42: 1,345.58 m² usable, starting price PLN 17,891,000, offers due 24 July 2026
  • 5 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 1.5 km, 2 of them of 500 m² or more (2,312 m² of footprint in all)

Risk: The Owsiana tender excluded residential use and any change needed the heritage conservator's approval; the Długi Targ building is offered at PLN 17.9m, far above what a co-operative can raise without a fund.

3 sources

Nowy Port — Dwór Fischera

A City-owned heritage manor, empty since 2006, which the City and a developer plan to restore under a public-private partnership.

  • Last residents evicted in 2006; entered in the heritage register in 1971
  • Order to repair the roof in February 2023; conservator inspections in February 2024 and May 2026
  • Restoration planned under a partnership between the City and Develia, work around 2030

Risk: A wall collapsed in February 2024 and a fire followed in May 2026; the conservator wants a use settled before reconstruction and restoration work is only planned for around 2030.

2 sources

Wrzeszcz — Sobótki and Zingler Hill

A large neo-Renaissance villa, the Gdańsk TVP seat until 1996, has stood empty for 30 years on Zingler Hill in Wrzeszcz.

  • Empty since 1996; bought by the developer Yareal in 2018 for PLN 12m
  • Plan of 2019: restore the villa and build four residential buildings; no permit granted
  • 2 BDOT10k out-of-use or ruined records within 1.5 km (394 m² of footprint)

Risk: A private developer owns it and plans four residential buildings; neighbours' objections blocked the permit in 2019.

2 sources

Signals to watch

Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.

  1. 2026-09-23Tenders announced for 26 October and 30 November 2026

    The 30 November round lists one plot (ul. Wajdeloty, 814 m², PLN 1.52m) and three flats; no building for conversion.

    1 source
  2. 2026-05-13Fire at Dwór Fischera; conservator inspects

    The roof is in "terrible" condition; restoration under a City-Develia partnership is planned for around 2030.

    1 source
  3. 2026-04-29Maritime University offers Długi Targ 41/42

    Unrestricted written tender for the building and perpetual usufruct, PLN 17,891,000; offers due 24 July 2026.

    1 source
2 earlier signals
  1. 2025-04-09
    City puts the Owsiana block on Granary Island to tender

    Five plots of 6,760 m² with old buildings "that nobody lives in" at PLN 24m, and two unbuilt plots of 4,080 m² at PLN 15m; tender 11 June 2025, non-residential use only.

    1 source
  2. 2025-01-31
    City confirms annual evacuation lists for run-down municipal buildings

    In answer to an interpellation about one building, the City said Gdańskie Nieruchomości's periodic checks qualify buildings for evacuation and the yearly list is approved at the end of March.

    1 source

Sources, and what we cannot see

21 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.

Every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API648Live
2026-11-06
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-11-06
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich)
Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building.
Open download370 buildings sizedLive
2026-11-06
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-11-06
EEA standard re-use policy (attribution)
Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings
Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg)
Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named).
Asking for permission0Pending
2026-11-06
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty
Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report)
German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence.
Open download0Live
2026-11-06
Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point
Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed
Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records)
Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders.
Open download0Live
2026-11-06
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation)
Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018)
European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy.
Open API141Live
2026-11-06
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers
EHC research (dated press and court sources per point)
Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join).
EHC research0Live
2026-11-06
Cited publisher per point
Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up
Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research
Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json).
EHC research0Live
2026-11-06
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
Includes the library’s public lighthouse conversions (src/scripts/data/reuse/lighthouses.json), shown under "Already converting" with a link to their library page.
EHC research6Live
2026-11-06
Facts cited to their publishers
Buildings named in the news (each with its article)
Local and national press, read by EHC
Buildings the news reports empty, for sale or to let, to be demolished or being converted (src/scripts/data/reuse/news-building-leads.json; rules in src/lib/reuse/news-layer.ts). A report that names a building already on the map is shown on its card instead of a second point; one an open source contradicted, or that says the building is in use, is left out. Not checked on site.
EHC research8Live
2026-11-06
Facts with a link to the article; the one-line summary is ours — no article text is republished
Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags
OpenStreetMap contributors
start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-11-06
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Probable era: estimated from a street photo (Panoramax, Mapillary, Google Street View)
Panoramax and Mapillary contributors; Google Street View (research use agreed with Google, 14 Oct 2026); estimate by EHC with a vision model
Where no register dates a building: its era read from a Panoramax or Mapillary photo looking at it — Google Street View only where no open photo answers (scripts/reuse/estimate-photo-eras.ts), only when the building is clearly visible and the model is confident, and only as “before 1945” or “1945 or later” — the split it got right for 89% of buildings with a register year in Amsterdam and Paris, and 89% from Street View pictures alone (photo-eras/calibration.json). An estimate: a sentence in the conversion check, never points.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-11-06
Open photos CC BY-SA 4.0 or Licence Ouverte 2.0 (per picture); Street View read for research only, never stored or shown; only the estimated era is published, never a photo
Buildings recorded out of use in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 2261 (Gdańsk)
Open download5Live
2026-11-06
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Buildings recorded as ruined in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 2261 (Gdańsk)
Open download13Live
2026-11-06
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Office buildings of four storeys or more in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 2261 (Gdańsk)
Open download212Live
2026-11-06
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
Industrial and warehouse buildings of three storeys or more in the national topographic database (BDOT10k)
Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) — BDOT10k, county package 2261 (Gdańsk)
Open download14Live
2026-11-06
Free reuse without restriction (Prawo geodezyjne i kartograficzne art. 40a; GUGiK: no fees) — credit GUGiK. Street addresses from OpenStreetMap contributors' address points (ODbL; in Poland the national address points of GUGiK)
City of Gdańsk plots sold with a building, on its tender list
Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku — Wydział Skarbu, Referat Obrotu Nieruchomościami (Nieruchomości – oferty inwestycyjne)
Open API2Live
2026-11-06
No licence stated — Gmina Miasta Gdańska public information (Wydział Skarbu), used with credit to Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku
City of Gdańsk dwellings on its tender list
Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku — Wydział Skarbu, Referat Obrotu Nieruchomościami (Nieruchomości – oferty inwestycyjne)
Open API7Live
2026-11-06
No licence stated — Gmina Miasta Gdańska public information (Wydział Skarbu), used with credit to Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku
Unbuilt City of Gdańsk plots on its tender list
Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku — Wydział Skarbu, Referat Obrotu Nieruchomościami (Nieruchomości – oferty inwestycyjne)
Open API5Live
2026-11-06
No licence stated — Gmina Miasta Gdańska public information (Wydział Skarbu), used with credit to Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku
OpenStreetMap: land mapped as brownfield
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API245Live
2026-11-06
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • Gdańsk publishes offers, not vacancies: no register of empty municipal flats or buildings was found, and Gdańskie Nieruchomości's yearly evacuation lists are not published.
  • The City's ownership map ("Mapa własności", listed on the open-data portal as a WMS on geogdansk.pl) and its map server mapa.gdansk.gda.pl did not answer from here (connection timed out), so who owns the BDOT10k buildings could not be read; the open-data portal itself (ckan.multimediagdansk.pl) holds transport data and WMS links, not property lists.
  • trojmiasto.pl, gdansk.naszemiasto.pl and dziennikbaltycki.pl answered HTTP 403 to automated requests and were not read (leads: Krosienka 8A, Studzienki 67, the Zakłady Mięsne directors' building); nothing from them is used.
  • BDOT10k flags in Gdańsk are few and dated 13 December 2024; flags lag, and some records lie on industrial land since redeveloped.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Gdańsk that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

A phone held up to photograph an empty shopfront, with a map pin drawn above it

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Radars nearby

The other radars in the same country and the nearest beyond. All 149 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

Berlin, Germany1,899empty buildings on recordBydgoszcz, Poland285empty buildings on recordCopenhagen, Denmark47empty buildings on recordKaunas, Lithuania68empty buildings on recordKraków, Poland355empty buildings on recordŁódź, Poland483empty buildings on recordLublin, Poland206empty buildings on recordMalmö, Sweden20empty buildings on recordPoznań, Poland314empty buildings on recordSzczecin, Poland355empty buildings on recordWarsaw, Poland1,366empty buildings on recordWrocław, Poland684empty buildings on record