![]() ![]() Indeed the Telegraph was resident of Canary Wharf from 1987 until 2006. The first stage of the project, 35 years ago, was to build these imposing skyscrapers and fill them with banks and other businesses. With other businesses predicted to make similar moves to HSBC in years to come, the Canary Wharf Group has no choice but to pivot away from business and towards a new market entirely. Why go anyway? All it offered was concrete, water and office space.īut things are changing. For years, to get there, you had to board a Legoland train (the DLR, before the Jubilee and Elizabeth Line sped things up) so most Londoners didn’t bother. To Londoners it is that cluster of skyscrapers over there, with a blinking light at the top of One Canada Square’s pyramid roof. After emerging from the mud in the 1980s, part of Margaret Thatcher’s vision to turn London into the financial centre of the world, Canary Wharf is barely visited by the 8.9 million people who call London home. The HSBC workers have apparently taken to calling their Canary Wharf headquarters the “tower of doom”, and the district certainly attracts mixed emotions among London’s residents as well. This week HSBC announced it would be departing its office in London’s financial district for a smaller, more suitable space in the City of London now that the workforce has taken to hybrid working. It is packed with the best restaurants in town, Manhattan-style rooftop bars, immersive art exhibitions and a world-class museum. Did you hear? London has a new tourist district. ![]()
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