the area has developed on the site of ørens mekaniske verksted and trondheims mekaniske verksted, a mechanical workshop that was once the largest employer in trondheim. the industrial site became disused in the late 1990s and turned into a new high-end area, though some of the original buildings and artifacts have been kept, including a dry dock and a crane. the area includes the shopping centre solsiden, a hotel, marina, and the trondheim offices of many companies, including dnb nor, vital, pricewaterhousecoopers, cap gemini, deloitte, petrojarl, the british consulate, the mexican consulate, the polish consulate, google, nextgentel, radio 1, scandinavian airlines, and increo interactive creations as. across the street from nedre elvehavn is trondheim art academy, part of the norwegian university of science and technology.