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July 25, 2019

How To Take A 'Soulless' Building In A Fringe Location And Create A Thriving 1M SF Office Hub Of The Future

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In London real estate development today, people often talk about being bold, taking risk and building in new districts, when what they mean is refurbishing an office on the edge of the City where rents are already £60/SF and Amazon and UBS have a building 400 yards away. There is that, and then there is what Robert Wolstenholme and Trilogy Real Estate are doing with Republic.

From the most unpromising of circumstances, Trilogy has created an office destination where about 200K SF has been leased and an existing scheme of 600K SF will almost double in size in an area that no one considered a viable office location. Bisnow can reveal a new 30K SF letting to Anglia Ruskin University, which has chosen the scheme as the location of a new business school.

How To Take A 'Soulless' Building In A Fringe Location And Create A Thriving 1M SF Office Hub Of The Future

How has Trilogy done it? It dug beyond initial impressions of a set of buildings and area and identified a location which should benefit from the changing nature of London, and cities more generally. It has applied creativity and chutzpah in its development of the Republic scheme, which will be…

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