All Big Interviews articles
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InsightInterview with duo bringing big US player to UK
Industrial real estate developer BRIDGE is a fixture in the US but a relative unknown here. That could be about to change. Simon Creasey talks to the two men heading its newly opened UK office
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The book of Adam: the rise and fall of Adam Neumann
US journalist Reeves Wiedeman, author of a new book on WeWork, talks to Propety Week about the rise and fall of the flex workspace giant’s messianic co-founder Adam Neumann.
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Interview with Maarten Jamin: ‘I’m not worried about competition’
Maarten Jamin, IWG chief design officer and founder of design agency bs;bp, talks to Adam Branson about IWG’s two new office concepts, its quick flex-workspace rollout and the impact of the new WFH directive
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The time for the built environment sector to act on sustainability is now
Newly elected UKGBC chair Sunand Prasad says time is running out for the built environment sector to act on sustainability, but remains ‘obstinately optimistic’ about the future.
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The Mancunian candidate
OBI Property’s Will Lewis tells Property Week how the Manchester-based agency has grown in 10 years from a two-man band to a business handling around 40% of the city’s office lettings.
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Helping retail to turn over a new leaf
Turnover-based rents will be vital for retailers to survive. Property Week talks to the founders of a new consultancy formed to help implement the new model.
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Prologis - the developer of business 'Parklife' talks to Property Week
Prologis’s Robin Woodbridge talks to Property Week about its decision to sell the Platform portfolio, its last-mile logistics strategy and the sector’s growing importance to the economy
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DHL ready to handle the fallout from Covid-19
Logistics operator DHL is well placed to handle the extremes that Covid-19 has created for the commercial property market. Property Week finds out why.
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Is American Dream the future of retail?
Triple Five recently launched one of the world’s biggest retail and leisure schemes. The firm’s leasing vice-president tells Property Week why experiential retail is key to survival for malls in America and beyond.
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‘We never wanted to grow too quickly’: interview with Huckletree co-founder
Huckletree co-founder Andrew Lynch talks to Emma Shone about the co-working firm’s community-based offering, the benefits of its Places model and his reimagining of the sector in a post-Covid world
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Building the tower of Babel
Dutch international footballer Ryan Babel tells Property Week why he thinks investing in residential property is cooler and sexier than splashing out on expensive watches and fast cars.
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Flexible office space done the Spacemade way
As companies pursue flexible leasing options in response to the pandemic, service provider Spacemade is capitalising by creating bespoke brands for landlords. Property Week meets its co-founders to find out more.
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Get Living gets living
Chief executive Rick de Blaby talks to Property Week about its upcoming projects, the importance of ‘neighbourhood living’ and the impact of Covid-19 and changing residential demographics on its business.
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Q&A: Neil Young on relaunching start-up incubator business
The former Get Living chief executive talks to Property Week about his past successes, current challenges and future plans.
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Whitbread and wisdom
Whitbread head of property Mark Anderson tells Property Week how the hospitality company has approached managing its hotel and food-and-drink arms amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Irish plan
Quintain Ireland’s Eddie Byrne tells Property Week how Covid-19 is affecting business and what it all means for its plans to become one of the republic’s biggest housebuilders.
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David and the industrial Goliath
As SEGRO turns 100, chief executive David Sleath talks to Property Week about how it became an industrial powerhouse, the challenges Covid-19 poses and what the business plans to do next.
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Interview with the duo behind Plus X
Having established proof of concept, the duo behind incubator hub Plus X plan to roll it out across other U+I sites and beyond.
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Founders of Kontor map out its future
James Townsend and Luke Appleby talk to Simon Creasey about their global expansion plans and the challenges of being a start-up consultancy in the US.
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Turning the Big Apple green: interview with John Mandyck
John Mandyck, chief executive of New York’s Urban Green Council, is working on a revolutionary real estate carbon trading system that could help New York and other cities slash emissions.
