Editing Toruń (section)

== Economy ==
[[File:Toruński Park Technologiczny44.jpg|thumb|left|Toruń's Technology Park]]
Although a medium-sized city, Toruń is the site of the headquarters of some of the largest companies in Poland, or at least of their subsidiaries. The official unemployment rate, {{as of|alt=as of September 2008|2023|01}}, is 5.4%.

In 2006, construction of new plants owned by [[Sharp Corporation]] and other companies of mainly Japanese origin has started in the neighboring community of [[Łysomice]] - about {{convert|10|km|0|abbr=off}} from city centre. The facilities under construction are located in a newly created special economic zone. As a result of cooperation of the companies mentioned above, a vast high-tech complex is to be constructed in the next few years, providing as many as 10,000 jobs (a prediction for {{update after|2010}}) at the cost of about 450 million euros. {{As of|2008}}, the creation of another special economic zone is being considered, this time inside city limits.
[[File:Torun ul Szeroka.jpg|thumb|Toruń's city centre incorporates a large commercial district]]
Thanks to its architectural heritage Toruń is visited by more than 1.5 million tourists a year (1.6 million in 2007). This makes tourism an important branch of the local economy, although time spent in the city by individual tourists or the number of hotels, which can serve them, are still not considered satisfactory. Major investments in renovation of the city's monuments, building new hotels (including high-standard ones), improvement in promotion, as well as launching new cultural and scientific events and facilities, give very good prospects for Toruń's tourism.
[[File:Małe Garbary Street in Toruń.jpg|left|thumb|Małe Garbary, a typical street in the Old Town of Toruń]]
In recent years Toruń has been a site of intense building construction investments, mainly residential and in its transportation network. The latter has been possible partly due to the use of European Union funds assigned for new member states. Toruń city county generates by far the highest number of new dwellings built each year among all Kuyavian-Pomeranian counties, both relative to its population as well as in absolute values. It has led to almost complete rebuilding of some districts. {{As of|2008}}, many major constructions are either under development or are to be launched soon - the value of some of them exceeding 100 million euros. They include a new speedway stadium, major shopping and entertainment centres, a commercial complex popularly called a "New Centre of Toruń", a music theater, a centre of contemporary art, hotels, office buildings, facilities for the [[Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń|Nicolaus Copernicus University]], roads and tram routes, sewage and fresh water delivery systems, residential projects, the possibility of a new bridge over the Vistula, and more. Construction of the [[A1 autostrada (Poland)|A1 motorway]] and th[[Przewozy Regionalne|e BiT City]] fast metropolitan railway also directly affects the city. About 25,000 local firms are registered{{when||date=January 2023}} in Toruń.