All articles by Tristan McConnell
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Markets
Adventures in Africa
The world’s oldest inhabited continent is exciting new territory for developers and investors. Tristan McConnell reports from Ghana
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Crossed lines
The Tube’s property portfolio was to be sold off a few years ago but the plan fell apart in late 2002 and the property transferred to Transport for London. Since then there has been deafening silence, so what is going on and who is in charge?
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Foreign aid
CB Richard Ellis research gives an exclusive snapshot of central London’s overseas investment market.
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Twelve steps to recovery
Retailers and developers are being urged to lead regeneration in a dozen deprived areas the government terms 'under-served markets'. Tristan McConnell reports on how companies are responding to the call
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Insight
Parliament prepares to pass BIDs legislation
Success of 22 pilot projects paves the way for business improvement districts to become fully operational by the autumn.
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House party
Big casino operators are looking to move into the bingo market, but the bingo operators are not happy.
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Moving up the food chain
Restaurants have shied away from the listed sector, but two new London-based companies are planning to take good food to the masses by going public.
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Chairmen of the boards
Adrenalin junkies would not normally visit their local shopping centre to get their kicks, but the Extreme Group hopes to change that by bringing surfing and skateboarding to places like Lakeside and Thurrock.
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Seaside splash
High rates of crime, drug abuse and unemployment are proof of Morecambe's decline as a popular seaside resort. But now it is being reinvented.
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Insight
A bridge to the Gateway
Projects to link the Thames Gateway to continental Europe, and to connect Woolwich to London Docklands, hold the key to the area’s regeneration.
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The Mancunian way
As the masterplan for Manchester's Southern Gateway takes shape, Tristan McConnell talks to its architect Sir Terry Farrell, council leader Sir Howard Bernstein and developer Ken Knott about their visions for the city
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Manchester ignited
With Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and Marks & Spencer already in the city centre, Allied London is prepared to cut deals for retailers at Spinningfields. Meanwhile, leisure uses are driving development all around the city.
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Liverpool's leap year
One-year-old Liverpool Land Development Company's latest scheme is in partnership with St Modwen. Tristan McConnell reports
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Grosvenor's sure bet
Any day now, Grosvenor expects to receive the go-ahead for its Paradise Street retail development. Tristan McConnell reports on why confidence is so high
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Insight
Is a handful of deals a trend ?
Reading's agents are having problems forecasting which way the market will go. A slight upturn in occupier demand has been fettered by rents still falling.
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West Brom finds its art
RegenCo, the body charged with reviving a disparate sprawl of West Bromwich industrial areas tagged as Sandwell, believes a striking new arts centre will help give the area focus and identity.
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Insight
A hostile welcome
The building of accommodation centres for asylum seekers is being stymied by planning red tape and local protests.
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Stuck in the middle with Pru
Although Prudential's redeveloped Arndale Centre will be bigger and better than its predecessor, it has not lost its thoroughly mid-market approach.