Everything about Broadgate totally explained
Broadgate is a large, office and retail estate in the
City of London, owned by
British Land and managed by Broadgate Estates. The original developer was
Rosehaugh: it was built by a
Bovis /
Carillion joint venture and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of
Canary Wharf in the early
1990s.
The modern and mainly-pedestrianised development is located on the original site of
Broad Street station (closed in
1986) and beside and above the railway approaches into
Liverpool Street station.
The perimeter of the managed estate is
Bishopsgate to the east, Sun Street,
Appold Street and the eastern part of
Worship Street to the north, the southern part of
Wilson Street to the west and
Eldon Street and
Liverpool Street to the south. Included in the estate are
Broadgate Circle and
Exchange Square. Boundary changes made in 1993 now place the entire estate within the City of London - previously a part was in the
London Borough of Hackney.
(External Link
)
Several different companies have participated in the development of the estate, but since
2003 the whole estate has been owned by
British Land, which has been involved since
1984. Statistics from
British Land state that the estate provides 360,000 square metres (3,900,000 ft²) of office, retail and leisure accommodation spread over 129,000 square metres (32 acres) and over 30,000 people are employed there.
Any photography around the site including the public square which houses the 'Fulcrum' sculpture is banned by on-site security personnel.
There are plans to substantially expand the estate to the north with the construction of a
skyscraper called the
Broadgate Tower, which will become the 3rd-tallest building in the City after
Tower 42 and the
30 St Mary Axe. This building stands over the railway tracks out of Liverpool Street station and will add more than of commercial floorspace to the estate. Construction will be finished in the summer of
2008.
Broadgate Estates manage other major office and retail developments in London such as
Paternoster Square, home of the
London Stock Exchange.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Broadgate'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://broadgate.totallyexplained.com">Broadgate Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
