2012 legacy issues 'forced media centre team to quit'

[Massimo A. Allamandola]

To: gamesmonitor at yahoogroups.co.uk
Subject: 2012 legacy issues 'forced media centre team to quit'

> The pressure for high speculative land value is high on the Olympic Park.
> 
> THE MEDIA CENTRE TO BE BUILT ON THE 'ashes' OF CLAY's LANE a 500 people co-op
> housing that was built on principle of social and economic sustainability.
> 
> People are now fighting for MONEY and Short-Term profit in order to size Clay's Lane Land 
> for their own profit...
> 
> And the PUBLIC AGENCIES like the LDA are enabling spculation using the LEGACY as a
> social mirror for their business plan...
> 
> Background
> 
> In spetember 2006 LDA moved to the newly built Palestra Building in Southwark Station.
> The building , built by Blackfriars Investments, was the largest speculative development
> in London over the past 2 years, is now rented by the LDA at an average annual rent of
> 1,843,007 £ .
> 
> http://www.lda.gov.uk/upload/rtf/LDA_2005-9_Annual_Report_and_Accounts.rtf
> 
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> 2012 legacy issues 'forced media centre team to quit'
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> http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3098393
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> 
> 26 October 2007
> 
> By Rory Olcayto
> 
> The legacy of the 2012 Olympics has again been called into question after sources expressed doubt over the Olympic Delivery Authority’s ability to deliver a legacy use for the games' media centre.
> 
> This week one of the four consortiums shortlisted for the project, a team including Sheffield-based Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson Architects, was asked to withdraw. Insiders suggested this was because the ODA had rejected its legacy planning.
> 
> BD revealed earlier this month that there was concern over the post-games legacy.
> 
> HCD's withdrawal leaves BDP, Hopkins, and Allies & Morrison as the only architects in the running for the massive scheme to provide a base for 20,000 media staff during the games.
> 
> A source close to the rejected consortium, which also included developer Rosemound and contractor Norwest Holst, said its legacy proposal for offices, industrial units and warehousing had been deemed unsuitable, but maintained: 'It should be designed with future use in mind as it will only be used for two weeks.
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> 'The best approach would be to knock it down and build something else after the games. But that would be seen as wasteful.”
> 
> The ODA was not prepared to discuss why the consortium had been dropped, but a spokesman said the body was considering developers' legacy use proposals, and hoped to appoint a developer soon. He dismissed claims the building could end up as a supermarket distribution centre.
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> London Legacy 2020, a lobby group headed by Peter Welton of the East London Business Alliance, wants a digital broadcasting and film hub to be created in the centre after the games.
> 
> With a footprint of 120,000sq m, the enormous media centre facilities ' which include a broadcasting centre and press centre, have been compared to the scale of César Pelli's Canary Wharf tower, lying on its side.

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