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Estates Gazette Question Time: Leeds top city for Sky

Estates Gazette Question Time: Leeds top city for Sky

 

Sky’s director of digital platforms has said Leeds

came out on top in a global analysis of cities for access to skills. Matt Grest, who has led Sky’s launch of a 61,000 sq ft technology hub at Allied London’s Leeds Dock, said: “We put a pin on the map, we did a one hour commute radius around Leeds and we asked, within that area could we

get access to the skills we needed? “And the answer is yes.”

He was speaking at Estates Gazette’s Question Time debate held at The Leeds Club on 28 April.

Also on the panel were Jeremy Collins, property director of John Lewis; Rachel Dickie, head of urban regeneration at Legal & General; Adam Key, director of planning at Savills and Simon Sherwood, partner at Mills & Reeve.

Listen here for a full audio recording of the debate.

 

Question Time was held in partnership with Savills, Mills & Reeve and CLS.

 

Dubai tallest tower architect denies height competition with Saudi Arabia

 Michael Calatrava, the chief executive of Calatrava Mideast, an outpost of the Swiss-Spanish practice headed by his father Santiago Calatrava, who Emaar commissioned to design what will be Dubai's new tallest tower, has denied rumours that it is waiting to see the progress of Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower, before it commits to an exact height.

CVA: friend or foe?

 

In the wake of BHS collapsing into administration just 34 days after landlords thought they had bought themselves extra days of rent by agreeing to a company voluntary arrangement,

Experts debate whether CVAs are effective.

Mike Jervis, insolvency partner at PwC and Mark Robinson, founder and property director of shopping centre owner Ellandi, discussed the topic at Estates Gazette’s Retail Talks event held at the Completely Retail Marketplace in London on 26 April.

Samantha McClary, deputy editor of Estates Gazette, was chairing.

Brexit: How bad would an out vote be for commercial property?

RICS head of policy Jeremy Blackburn discusses the pros and cons of a Brexit vote and offers advice on how the commercial property industry should be preparing for the EU Referendum. 

 

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Savills: "Bristol could be a victim of its own success"

Ellandi's Morgan Garfield talks BHS

Insight residential

A big data analysis system to help developers and investors "beat the market" joins the latest cohort of property accelerator Pilabs

Proptech pops up in Bloomsbury

Founder of The Collective, Reza Merchant, welcomes the new Pilabs cohort to his Bedford Square HQ

John Burns: Record rent set at White Collar Factory

Derwent London has let two further floors in the White Collar Factory, EC1, setting a record rent for the building.

Chief executive John Burns talks to EG Editor Damian Wild