Le mie ricette per la real estate communityAXA Investment Managers – Real Assets, a global leader in real asset investments and the leading(1) real estate portfolio and asset manager in Europe, has agreed another new lease at 22 Bishopsgate, its flagship London development, having pre-let 75,000sq ft on a 17-year lease to Cooley LLP, the leading US-based law firm for technology. life-sciences and high-growth industries. 22 Bishopsgate is the 1.4 million sq ft (130,000 sqm) people-focused office development in the heart of London being managed by AXA IM – Real Assets, on behalf of an international consortium of investors, with Lipton Rogers Developments retained as developer.
Cooley, which is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, is expected to move its c. 200 strong London team to 22 Bishopsgate in 2020 where it has taken c. 75,000 sq ft on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th floors of the 62 storey building, on a 17-year lease. Having recently launched its London office in 2015, the move forms part of the law firm’s ambitious growth plans for Europe, underpinned by the abundance of talent and business opportunities at its disposal in London.
At 22 Bishopsgate, Cooley will benefit from a more cost-effective and efficient occupation with over 100,000 sq ft (9,300, sqm) of extensive amenities and common facilities available throughout the building. These include a first of its kind, 20,000-square-foot food hub run in partnership with leading hospitality group rhubarb and champions of grassroots talent of the food and beverage industry, The Young British Foodies (YBFs), an innovation hub, a gym with London’s first ‘sky-wall’ climbing window, which is 125 metres above ground level on the 25th floor, a wellbeing retreat on the 41st floor, a business club, cycle storage and repair facilities, as well as the capital’s highest free public viewing gallery, with art interventions throughout.
22 Bishopsgate is a new, people-focused workplace destination, which will be Europe’s first vertical village, and expected to accommodate a community of up to 12,000 occupiers and visitors. 22 Bishopsgate’s central themes of wellbeing and community aim to allow tenants to benefit from the direct correlation between happiness at work and quality of workplace with increasing an individual’s productivity and creativity. It has been designed to put user experience and human interaction at the centre of its offer and will be the first major London building to embody the structural and cultural shifts in how people work and live, embracing a range of community amenities and using the latest technology.
22 Bishopsgate will also be built and managed to the highest technology and sustainability standards, in order to support the varying needs of businesses today and in the future and is the first building in the UK to apply for the Delos WELL Building Standard.
1 Source: INREV/ANREV Fund Manager Survey – May 2019 – in terms of assets under management
2 AXA IM – Real Assets’ data as of end of March 2019 (unaudited)
Source : AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets
