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🏆 We're finalists for Bilbao Metropoli 30’s The Bay Awards in the Prosperity Catalyst category! Places for London was selected for its role in generating prosperity in the communities we work in, as well as fostering wealth redistribution and social and territorial cohesion. Here at Places for London, we're proud that our work addresses affordability, inclusion, and sustainability. We do this by using under-utilised public land and buildings in new and creative ways such as: 🏡 Building new homes and targeting an average of 50% affordable housing across our projects in Greater London 🏪 Renovating workspaces and having a portfolio of 95% small and medium enterprises actively supporting the capital's economy 🚆 Regenerating town centres and redirecting our profits back into London's transport network As we develop and grow, we hope to inspire other cities with our model. Congratulations to all the other nominees! Read more about the awards and our nominated project here: https://lnkd.in/eG_pNDYf #TheBayAwards Mark Farrow | Graeme Craig | Emma Hatch | Opportune Simon MRICS

🙌 It was great to collaborate with Places for London's Joint Venture Partner, The Earls Court Development Company (ECDC) recently, with a site visit for students to its regeneration project at the former Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Year 10 students (aged 14-15) from Fulham Cross Academy were given an overview of the project designed to bring the wonder back to Earls Court by transforming the 40-acre derelict site into an innovative mixed-use development that is exemplary in its approach to sustainability. Students were shown a model of the site and led through the various consultation stages. They even got to climb onto ‘The Table’ – a concrete structure that looms over the site providing a perfect view of the work in progress. Thank you ECDC for hosting us, it was amazing to gain an insight into the exciting development plans ahead! #constructionsitetour #careersinconstruction

🌎 Today is World Youth Skills Day, where we celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, work, and entrepreneurship.   Here at Places for London, we are proud to be working with a number of partners, including Construction Youth Trust, Barratt London, The Earls Court Development Company, Grainger PLC and Helical plc as part of our Educational Engagement Programme, to champion young people and to equip them with the skills, education and training they need to thrive personally and professionally. This includes hosting work experience programmes for students from our partner schools in boroughs across the city, including London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London Borough of Lambeth and London Borough Of Southwark. Recently, we hosted 10 students for a week at our Places for London office, where we tasked them with creating a development plan for our Wembley Park site which they later presented to a panel of senior staff here at Places for London. As part of the experience, Barratt London hosted a tour of the site, bringing the experience to life. It was also a great opportunity for students to network and to gain an insight into the work of our property development and sustainability teams.   Delivering programmes like these allows us to promote lifelong learning opportunities and provide young people with the skills they need to shape a sustainable future. To discover more about Places for London’s skills programmes, visit: https://lnkd.in/ePUD-FPR

How did this family business go from roasting coffee in their back garden to supplying coffee to over 100 businesses? In our second episode of 'Meet the Makers', we sat down with Victoria Cozens, the co-founder of speciality coffee roasters Perky Blenders Coffee Roasters to discuss their journey from humble beginnings to now having five sites across London, an ever growing subscription service and an in-house roastery in East London. 🎥 Watch the full interview with Victoria over on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/ezHabd9u 🏪 Looking for a home for your business? Check out our available units here: https://lnkd.in/dmwUZ78

How did this family business go from roasting coffee in their back garden to supplying coffee to over 100 businesses? In our second episode of 'Meet the Makers', we sat down with Victoria Cozens, the co-founder of speciality coffee roasters Perky Blenders Coffee Roasters to discuss their journey from humble beginnings to now having five sites across London, an ever growing subscription service and an in-house roastery in East London. 🎥 Watch the full interview with Victoria over on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/ezHabd9u 🏪 Looking for a home for your business? Check out our available units here: https://lnkd.in/dmwUZ78

We held a responsible business workshop for our hospitality customers at Places for London yesterday. The workshop brought together the small businesses taking part in our year-long responsible business skills programme, with our partners Heart of the City and Cushman & Wakefield, and our large business ambassadors Caffè Nero, Lola's Cupcakes and The Savanna. We were lucky to be joined by The Sustainable Restaurant Association. Our programme runs until the end of February 2025 and as ever we are learning more from our customers and they from each other than they learn from us; a truer partnership. We’re delighted to be able to sponsor this kind of programme as part of becoming London’s most impactful landlord and landowner. Supporting the community that our customers already create means we can drive more of the inclusive growth we all want. We’ll have another workshop in Hackney in the autumn. We’d encourage any small businesses to look at what business support is out there. We are loving working with Heart of the City and there is also loads of help through the Mayor’s single front door to support, Grow London Local. Thank you so much to Lisa, Paul, Asher, Will, Matthew, Samantha and our programme lead from Heart of the City, Olivia.

We're excited to welcome WHSmith to our estate with their new store opening at Ealing Broadway! Hear from Tim Brennan and Gareth Heald AssocRICS MIRPM MARLA AIOSH on the journey to bringing this new opening to life and how it will serve the needs of the local community.

🏬 We're launching a new series to celebrate the incredible businesses that call Places for London home!   In the first episode of our 'Meet the Makers' series, we caught up with Bergamot Cafe, a popular Persian café based in our Wood Lane Arches in White City. Run by husband and wife duo, Hossein Zolanvari and Shirin Tahanan, Bergamot Cafe is a hidden gem that brings home-cooked Persian delicacies from the different regions of Iran to the people of West London and beyond.   🎥 Watch the full interview with Shirin and Hossein over on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/gggVh-96   🏪 Looking for a home for your business? Check out our available units here: https://lnkd.in/dmwUZ78

🎉 We won! We're incredibly proud to share that our collaboration with Pentagram on the new brand identity for Places for London has been recognised with not one, but two Gold Awards at Transform magazine's European Transform awards! Covering five regions, this prestigious award programme is a global celebration of excellence for brand development, reputation management and rebranding. Our brand won in the Best Visual Identity category for both the public and property sectors.   And that’s not all; our new brand video, featuring a poem penned by London spoken word poet and writer Rakaya Fetuga and produced in collaboration with The Edge Picture Company, also secured a Bronze Award in the Best Writing category at the New York Festivals TV and Film Awards! Rakaya's poem showcases the wonderfully diverse businesses on our estate and the people and stories behind them that make Places for London so special. A special thanks to Emily Papworth, Andrea Seroni, Thomas J. Lunt, Daniel Quinton-Navarro, Adrian Hieatt, Amy Thompson, Joanne Beaney, Graeme Craig, Lisa-Jane Risk for their hard work behind the scenes, bringing the vision of a new Places for London brand identity to life.