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Quite a few of the core team here, yet exciting opportunity to reconsider how including me, built these buildings those buildings serve the millions of people first time round; Canary Wharf is visiting the district in 2026 and beyond. where I started my career 33 years

One Eden, otherwise known as 33 Canada ago,” opens Alec Vallintine, Managing Director, Square, is CWG’ s current retrofit focus. Construction at Canary Wharf Group( CWG). Originally occupied by Citigroup from the“ I handed over 8 Canada Square, colloquially late 1990s, it was one of the first buildings the known as the HSBC building, myself 25 years company completed after coming out of the ago, and now we’ re going back in, revisiting, administration of Olympia and York, which refitting, and reworking the building for makes reworking it even more monumental. today’ s needs. We’ ve evolved from large“ It’ s one of our babies, so it feels strange to be commercial builders into residential, as we’ re returning and repurposing it,” Alec says.“ It’ s coming to the end of a scheme to deliver interesting to see how much has changed over 4600 apartments across the district. over the last 25 years, particularly in terms of Now, we’ re moving into heavy refurb work, technology and environmental regulations. which requires a whole new mindset.”

We’ ve already seen interest, with PwC signing

A quarter of a century after the first heads of terms for 350,000 square feet buildings were constructed, the group of the space.” that built Canary Wharf out of the London

This project is the first of many buildings, Docklands is turning its attention inwards. as 8 Canada Square, colloquially known as With some of the original Canary Wharf HSBC tower, is back in planning. As one of buildings, CWG is taking on the challenging the district’ s most closely watched buildings,

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