What is Here East?
Here East is a unique location on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park that will provide a new home with state-of-the-art infrastructure for the creative and digital industries. It will include a range of versatile spaces, bringing together global companies with London’s most innovative start-ups to collaborate and learn from each other. It will feature three main buildings: a 300,000 sq ft innovation centre; a 1,045 seat auditorium; and a 850,000 sq ft building housing educational space, broadcast studios, office space, and a state-of-the-art data centre.
Who is behind Here East?
Here East is being developed by iCITY, a joint venture between Delancey, a specialist real estate investment and advisory company, and Infinity SDC, the UK’s leading data centre operator.
For further information please see http://icitylondon.com
Who is behind Here East?
Here East has already secured a number of tenants and is over 40% pre-let:
• BT Sport is based at Here East with an 80,000 sq ft production hub. This contains three industry-leading studios, 20 edit suites, three main interoperable galleries, four sports galleries, and an audience holding area for a 160 strong audience.
• Loughborough University will create a multi-disciplinary postgraduate teaching, research and enterprise facility
• Hackney Community College will deliver its pioneering digital apprenticeship scheme within a new Tech City Apprenticeship Academy
• Infinity SDC will develop one of the largest and most efficient data centres in Europe, featuring 260,000 sq ft gross internal area, fed by multiple power grids and providing 40MVA of power with exceptional resilience.
About Delancey
Delancey is a specialist real estate investment, development and advisory company with over 18 years’ experience and a portfolio that covers retail, residential and commercial developments across London and the UK. Working with a wide range of assets, partners and clients, Delancey takes a diverse approach to creating value from property.
As well as sourcing and negotiating direct property and corporate transactions, Delancey advises on appropriate capital structures, procures third party financing and provides pro-active asset management and development services. One of Delancey’s most high profile assets is the East Village (formerly known as the Athletes’ Village), which it co-owns with Qatari Diar. Adjacent to Here East and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, East Village offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to develop and deliver a vibrant new neighbourhood and community for London.
For further information visit www.delancey.com
About Infinity SDC
Infinity SDC is the fastest growing provider of data centre services in the UK. Since their launch in 2006, Infinity has gained a significant share of the UK wholesale data centre market. Infinity data centres support the critical operations of some of the world’s leading investment banks, insurers and telecommunications operators.
Infinity has a proven track record of providing reliable, efficient data centres that match their customers’ needs. They design, build and manage bespoke, shared and modular colocation data centre solutions, with a portfolio of sites that stretches around London’s M25. Infinity pride themselves on providing an uninterrupted, transparent and responsive service for some of the world’s leading companies. For further information visit www.infinitysdc.com
About Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will be a place unlike any other in London, offering the best in sporting and cultural amenities in world class venues and parks, and at the same time creating places to live and work that are rooted in the ethos and fabric of east London’s diverse and vital communities.
The north of the Park is already open for people to enjoy and the south of the Park will be reopening on 5 April 2014. For more information visit www.QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) promotes and delivers physical, social, economic and environmental regeneration in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the surrounding area, in particular by maximising the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
For further information visit www.londonlegacy.co.uk
