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Consort Place, formerly known as Alpha Square, is a mixed-use development currently under construction in the Isle of Dogs, London, England, south of the financial district Canary Wharf. Original plans for the development were withdrawn by the developer in 2015 following a recommendation to refuse the scheme by Tower Hamlets Development Committee.
A local public library, called Idea Store Canary Wharf, is in Churchill Place shopping mall and run by Tower Hamlets Council which opened on Thursday 16 March 2006 as part of the Idea Store project [101] and is the borough fourth Idea Store. [102] Cinema. Canary Wharf hosts two multiplexes (cinemas), one on West India Quay run by Cineworld.
LDDC helped to create Canary Wharf, Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, London City Airport, ExCeL London, London Arena and the Docklands Light Railway, bringing more than 120,000 new jobs to the Docklands and making the area highly sought after for housing. Although initially fiercely resisted by local councils and residents, today it is generally ...
In March 2024, vacancies stood at 15.2%—up from 13.4% a year earlier and 4% in 2017, according to commercial real estate analytics group CoStar (although the so-called Grade-A properties managed ...
Night view of Canary Wharf in the Docklands The O2 with Canary Wharf in the background Museum of London Docklands, near Canary Wharf. Efforts to redevelop the docks began almost as soon as they were closed, although it took a decade for most plans to move beyond the drawing board and another decade for redevelopment to take full effect.
Some of the tallest buildings in London occupy Canary Wharf, one of the country's largest financial districts, in the southeast of the borough. Between 2014 and 2024, Tower Hamlets saw the completion of 71 skyscrapers, more than any other London borough. [3] Also, part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is in the borough.
Boris Johnson promised that the development would be the "next Canary Wharf", serving as a gateway for Asian and Chinese businesses, creating 20,000 jobs and adding £6 billion to the UK economy. [9] Johnson named the main road serving the development "Mandarin Street" to attract Chinese businesses. [10] Construction officially began in June 2017.
Riverside South is a proposed skyscraper development in Canary Wharf, London.Some below ground-level work was completed by 2014 on behalf of investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., which bought a 999-year lease on the site with the intention of making the building its London office, but the firm has now moved into an existing Canary Wharf building.