La White City Place signe un contrat de location important avec l’Imperial College London, poursuivant ainsi sa croissance rapide dans le quartier britannique des sciences de la vie et de la technologie

Stanhope, the leading developer and asset manager, with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan are delighted to announce today that Imperial College London, the world-class science, engineering, medicine and business university, has signed an agreement to take 47,650 square foot of space at White City Place.

Imperial will take the first floor of the MediaWorks building at White City Place for a new Professional Services hub, joining tenants including major life sciences companies like Autolus, Novartis, and Engitix, as well as other internationally renowned educational institutions, like the Royal College of Art and the Tokyo College of Sushi and Washoku, in the growing White City Innovation District.

The MediaWorks building offers both CAT A office and fully fitted office accommodation, with fully fitted grow-on laboratory units for growing life science companies. The available accommodation is set around three 29-metre atria that fills the spaces with light, forming a world-class facility offering complete flexibility for both science and business occupiers.

White City Place, alongside Imperial’s own White City Campus on the other side of Wood Lane, is creating a network of innovation spaces for businesses of all sizes in the 1.9 million sq ft campus. It is home to occupiers in the creative sector including household names like the BBC and ITV, as well as the more recent additions of Me+Em and Gravity Media. 

White City Place is part of a rapidly growing £4bn portfolio of office and Life Science buildings covering six million sq. ft. asset managed by Stanhope including Television Centre and Cambridge Science Park.

David Camp, CEO, Stanhope, stated:

“We are delighted that Imperial College London, our partner in innovation in White City, has decided to expand into White City Place within our growing life sciences cluster and world class educational institutions at the MediaWorks and WestWorks buildings. The move helps cement White City Place as a key destination for ambitious innovative businesses and start-ups seeking world-class modern facilities, a prime location and very good transport links.”

Jenny Hammarlund, Senior Managing Director and Head of Europe Real Estate at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, said:

“Ontario Teachers’ and Imperial College London share a commitment to education and its essential contribution to society. Imperial’s decision to become a tenant in the MediaWorks building at White City Place means they will join a host of world-leading life sciences companies, like Novartis and Autolus, and helps further enhance White City Place’s status as the number one location of choice for innovative, forward-thinking companies in the life sciences, biotech and education sectors.”

Robert Kerse, Chief Operating Officer at Imperial College London said:

“At Imperial, we recognise that world class professional services need great workplaces. That’s why we’re excited to be locating our White City Professional Services Hub within the MediaWorks building.

“This move places our professional services community at the heart of our White City Campus, an innovation ecosystem where great ideas grow, and a key anchor of the WestTech Corridor which is harnessing the university as a powerful engine for investment.” 

For further information, please contact:

Josh Cobb, Jefferson Communications, josh.cobb@jeffersoncommunications.co.uk

Stanhope PLC

Stanhope PLC are trusted partners creating sustainable buildings and urban places. The company is known for the quality of its research, for driving excellent design and for innovative responses to occupier requirements.

Stanhope has over 35 years’ experience working in partnership with communities, landowners, investors and occupiers and has delivered projects in excess of £27bn. Recent projects include White City Place and Television Centre, which have created over 4m sq ft contributing to the regeneration of White City including c.950 new homes, workspace, a hotel, studio space and leisure facilities. Other recent schemes include 8 Bishopsgate, 2 Ruskin Square, Warwick Court, Gresham St Pauls, Gateway Central and West and 1 Wood Crescent, Television Centre and joint ventures with Cadillac Fairview on Cambridge Science Park and Oxford North.

Stanhope has been selected and planning recently approved to develop the British Library extension creating new gallery, learning and event spaces enabled by 700,000 sq ft of commercial accommodation for knowledge quarter organisations.

Stanhope has also been selected as Development Partner for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity to bring forward a development on a 5.5 acre site opposite St Thomas’ Hospital and close to Waterloo Station. www.stanhopeplc.com

About Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers') is a global investor with net assets of $255.8 billion as at June 30, 2024. We invest in more than 50 countries in a broad array of assets including public and private equities, fixed income, credit, commodities, natural resources, infrastructure, real estate and venture growth to deliver retirement income for 340,000 working members and pensioners.

Our more than 450 investment professionals operate in key financial centres around the world and bring deep expertise in a broad range of sectors and industries. We are a fully funded defined benefit pension plan and have earned an annual total-fund net return of 9.3% since the plan's founding in 1990. At Ontario Teachers', we don't just invest to make a return, we invest to shape a better future for the teachers we serve, the businesses we back, and the world we live in. For more information, visit otpp.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Imperial College London

We are Imperial – a world-leading university for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business (STEMB), where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact. 

As a global top ten university in London, we use science to try to understand more of the universe and improve the lives of more people in it. Across our nine campuses and throughout our Imperial Global network, our 22,000 students, 8,000 staff, and partners work together on scientific discovery, innovation and entrepreneurship. Their work navigates some of the world’s toughest challenges in global health, climate change, AI, business leadership and more. 

Founded in 1907, Imperial’s future builds on a distinguished past, having pioneered penicillin, holography and fibre optics. Today, Imperial combines exceptional teaching, world-class facilities and a habit of interdisciplinary practice to unlock scientific imagination.