How Canary Wharf Is Adjusting to a Work-From-Home World

Leaders with Francine Lacqua

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Management, Business

4.6 • 64 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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What will office districts do if back-to-the-office stalls? Canary Wharf Group Chief Executive Officer Shobi Khan explains how his company is revitalizing the famous center of finance on this episode of In the City.

Canary Wharf, Khan tells hosts Francine Lacqua, David Merritt and Allegra Stratton, is no longer the “suit and tie” financial district of ten years ago. What was just blocks of banks now hosts residences, laboratories and cultural destinations, he says, with potential plans for a theater at the base of the HSBC tower.

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1:08.3	Frantina, have you been to Canary Warth recently? I have. I have lunches.
1:11.6	Power lunches. I don't know about power lunches, but I do have lunches.
1:14.9	Allegra, you go there?
1:15.6	The funny thing is, I actually go there with my kids and for my kids because there'll be some sailing, canoeing thing there. It's a different thing.
1:23.1	It is a very different thing.
1:25.2	It's no longer the cliche, if that's the right word, of my 20s, which was it's money, money, money, suits, suits. It's funny because for me it hasn't changed at all. For me, it's a real still office, real estate kind of environment because there are a lot of suits. Everybody walks really fast and the restaurants are like busy, but you know, you can see it's bankers, basically. But you know about the canary wolf has changed hasn't in the last few years from being the real rival to here in the city to be you know is it in trouble are the banks giving up on it coming back to the fold and the square mile that's been the story that we've been reading about and as that's happened there's been a need for which to transform itself into more a residential place more of a destination in the city even. And is that's happened, there's been a need for it to transform itself into more a residential place, more of a destination in the city, even.
2:04.1	And is that for real?
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