Welcome

Welcome to the second edition of Catalyst. With less than 1000 days until the London 2012 Games we're making sure that every day is used to powerfully convey the investment opportunity that east London provides. The View - an inward investment & marketing suite overlooking the Olympic Park with stunning views across London and the Lower Lea Valley will be a vital platform to attracting and securing the inward investment to the area which will be crucial to its transformation. This spectacular space will be used by us and partners - Think London, Invest Thames Gateway, Gateway to London, the Olympic Park Legacy Company, East London Business Alliance and the London Boroughs of Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham - to drive home the message that investment opportunities in the Gateway remain extremely positive. We were delighted to host the Chairman's Club comprising senior executives of the businesses sponsoring the London 2012 Games at The View last month.

Bringing the local community closer to the Olympic experience is the idea behind a new community facility - the View Tube - that we launched on the Greenway in Newham. Other regeneration activity in recent months has seen the appointment of a design team for the Thames Gateway Institute for Sustainability and a development management partner for the London Sustainable Industries Park.

We will be at the Thames Gateway Forum over the next couple of days and look forward to seeing many of you there.

Bob Lane - LTGDC Chairman

London Thames Gateway Development Corporation is the key government agency responsible for delivering social and economic growth to transform the London Thames Gateway, part of Europe's largest regeneration project.

News Stories

Architects selected to design exemplar research centre

LTGDC's ambition to locate a world class sustainability research institute in east London has moved a step closer with the appointment of a design team lead, by award winning Edward Cullinan Architects. The £8.5m research centre will be based at LTGDC's London Sustainable Industries Park at Dagenham Dock.

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A constantly changing view

The View Tube, a new visitor and community facility on The Greenway providing residents and visitors the one and only place to see the Olympic Park taking shape, was officially opened by the Minister for the Thames Gateway, Shahid Malik.

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LTGDC secure development interest in London Sustainable Industries Park

LTGDC has appointed Goodman as a development management partner to deliver its visionary London Sustainable Industries Park (London SIP), in East London. Goodman will work with LTGDC to finalise the development framework, marketing and management strategies for the site and deliver the London SIP's infrastructure.

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Slow Boats to Stratford

LTGDC and British Waterways have launched their search for an operator to run a new commercial boating base at Limehouse Basin, which will include a waterbus service to the Olympic Park. As the lead regeneration agency for the Lower Lea Valley, LTGDC's aim is its transformation into a vibrant, high quality and sustainable mixed use city district with unrivalled landscape containing new high quality parkland and water features.

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Private sector return crucial to East London regeneration LTGDC chief warns

Reducing the costs and risks of development in order to ensure the swift return of private investors to East London will make the difference between the continued regeneration of the area or a decade of set back, London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC) chief Peter Andrews said to an audience of over 150 developers, RSL's and delivery agencies announcing its investment programme for the next two years.

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Current Challenges, Future Opportunities

What will it take to get East London really working? The answer is complex, but essentially boils down to an effective public sector collaborating with an equally adept private sector. That was according to an informative seminar session hosted by LTGDC and chaired by Property Week editor Giles Barrie.

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Upcoming Events

Thames Gateway Forum
3-4 November
Indigo2 London

Bringing together the heads of real estate developers and investors with cabinet ministers and members of the UK's government at the highest level, the forum is the ideal opportunity to discover the opportunities Europe's largest regeneration project presents at this point in the economic cycle.

Visit Thames Gateway Forum website here

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