George Osborne celebrates the start of new City base for UBS at Broadgate March 1, 2012 CHANCELLOR George Osborne yesterday broke new ground to mark the start of construction work on UBS’s new headquarters at 5 Broadgate. The occasion marks the beginning of three years of building work overseen by site owners British Land and Blackstone, and the success of a campaign by City A.M. to allow the £850m development to [...]
Meccano-set towers: how London offices are evolving January 15, 2012 JE ne regrette rien. That is the message from Chris Grigg when we discuss his decision to quit banking in 2008 to take the reins at commercial property giant British Land. At the time, many in the City thought the former head of Barclays’ commercial bank was simply quitting one troubled industry for another; his [...]
OSBORNE UNVEILS ARTS TAX BREAK November 3, 2011 TO TATE Britain for the launch of Legacy10, the scheme cooked up by culture minister Jeremy Hunt and RLM Finsbury chairman Roland Rudd to encourage the nation to leave 10 per cent of their wealth to charities and cultural causes when they die. Backers of the scheme, which takes advantage of a Budget change from [...]
OSBORNE UNVEILS ARTS TAX BREAK November 3, 2011 TO TATE Britain for the launch of Legacy10, the scheme cooked up by culture minister Jeremy Hunt and RLM Finsbury chairman Roland Rudd to encourage the nation to leave 10 per cent of their wealth to charities and cultural causes when they die. Backers of the scheme, which takes advantage of a Budget change from [...]
Leaving a legacy doesn’t just have to be a metaphor November 3, 2011 YOU can give without suffering. That is the heart of the launch of my new Legacy10 campaign. The donor will not feel the pain while they’re alive, even if their children might be a little worse off, but the charities that benefit from our generosity can be exponentially better off. The reality is that we [...]
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WORK HARD TO WED October 25, 2011 BACK ON the soapbox for BeautifulPeople.com, the dating service that axed 5,000 members for putting on weight last Christmas. The site has launched a “comedic” YouTube video (right) to defend its looksist agenda. “You can’t argue with millions of years of evolution,” the site’s managing director Greg Hodge told The Capitalist, speaking from an Los [...]
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WORK HARD TO WED October 25, 2011 BACK ON the soapbox for BeautifulPeople.com, the dating service that axed 5,000 members for putting on weight last Christmas. The site has launched a “comedic” YouTube video (right) to defend its looksist agenda. “You can’t argue with millions of years of evolution,” the site’s managing director Greg Hodge told The Capitalist, speaking from an Los [...]
Broadgate: symbol of red tape Britain June 6, 2011 ON the face of it, it is hardly a major story that English Heritage wants to list the Broadgate office and retail estate in the City, a rather ugly 1980s construct in desperate need of modernisation. It is, however, a deeply symbolic move that confirms not only that Britain isn’t open for business but that [...]
IS THE UK REALLY OPEN FOR BUSINESS, MR CAMERON? IF SO… DON’T LIST BROADGATE June 5, 2011 CITY A.M. today launches a campaign against proposals to give listed building status to the Square Mile’s Broadgate estate, and calls on the government to prove the UK is open for business by rejecting the plans. If the government decides to list the 1980s site then plans to redevelop it into a new headquarters for investment [...]
Broadgate: symbol of red tape Britain June 5, 2011 ON the face of it, it is hardly a major story that English Heritage wants to list the Broadgate office and retail estate in the City, a rather ugly 1980s construct in desperate need of modernisation. It is, however, a deeply symbolic move that confirms not only that Britain isn’t open for business but that [...]