Giant luxury towers (with their own karaoke rooms) to spring up around the city as eastern investors look to Britain. But residents fear deals will force them out
The tallest residential tower in western Europe faces off against the biggest commerce park in the UK,while Thames-side towers offering “a brand current level of luxury” compete with the largest current entertainment resort that Britain has ever seen. In the battle of superlatives that is MIPIM, the international property unprejudiced that opened at London’s Olympia exhibition centre on Wednesday, and there is one recurring theme: the biggest projects are all the work of Chinese developers.
It is expected that £30bn worth of trade deals will be struck during the Chinese president Xi Jinping’s UK visit this week,and much of it has been happening among sprawling city models and virtual fly-throughs of glistening current towers. A delegation of approximately 100 Chinese investors, developers and construction companies visited on Wednesday afternoon to meet council leaders and land agents, or drifting between stands trumpeting the delights of “World Class Worcestershire” and “Northampton Alive”,and posing for selfies in front of regional investment opportunities.
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Source: theguardian.com