Quintain Estates & Development puts London on the map with Best Mixed Use Development

by Charlotte Ashton

All eyes will be on London in 2012 with the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games coming to town as well as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. And whilst the athletes will be striving for a podium position, Quintain Estates & Development is already a gold medal winner with their Wembley City project named as Best Mixed Use Development in the prestigious What House? Awards 2011.
Announced at the 30th annual glittering awards ceremony held last Friday at The Grosvenor, London, Wembley City, the major transformation of 85 acres of land surrounding the national football stadium and arena in Wembley, north-west London, into a vibrant mixed-use community, was praised by the judges for “helping to give the area a much needed facelift, following many years of neglect”.
When complete, Wembley City will form the heart of the area, with a fine mix of homes, retail outlets, commercial space and leisure and entertaining venues. It is one of the largest regeneration schemes in the UK, creating over 5,500 residential properties, a luxury hotel, an apart-hotel, an abundance of leisure and entertainment space, including a nine-screen cinema, 1.8 million-square foot designer retail outlet centre, 127,000 square feet of sports-related retail and 140,000 square feet of restaurants, bars and cafés.
Rupert Bates, editorial director of whathouse.co.uk, commented,
“Wembley City forms a key part of the wider regeneration of this area of north-west London and Quintain’s commitment to delivering people, businesses and economic growth to the heart of Wembley is to be applauded. A deserved winner, Wembley City is progressing on schedule with the first two residential buildings already completed and tenanted along with Wembley Arena and Arena Square now open.”
With tourism to the Capital steadily rising and over 500,000 additional visitors expected in 2012 alone due to the Olympic Games (as part of which Wembley Arena will host a number of events) demand for accommodation is high. The next phase of Wembley City will entail a 4* Hilton hotel and a 661 bedroom student accommodation block, both of which are well underway with completion scheduled for 2012.  The new hotel and student accommodation will be complemented by a London Designer Outlet, the new Brent civic centre and a library, which are scheduled to open in 2013.
As the judging panel concluded, Wembley City is a “high-quality development, easily accessible on the Jubilee and Metropolitan tube lines, taking residential and commercial architecture in Wembley to a new level”.

To find out more about the Best Mixed Use Development, as well a full list of What House? Award winners visit http://www.whathouse.co.uk/what-house-awards/results-2011 or download the new What House? App for iPhone and shortly iPad.
To register for details of the 2012 What House? Awards please contact Derek Smith. ds@globespanmedia.com. Tel: 020-7324-2800.
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Notes to Editors:

Rupert Bates, editorial director of whathouse.co.uk would like to thank the following What House? Awards 2011 sponsors:

 

 Whathouse.co.uk
 Roca
 Spicerhaart land & new homes
 Nolte Kitchens
 Hometrack
 Show House magazine
 Electrolux
 Premier Guarantee
 Johnson Tiles
 Laufen
 ScottishPower
 KLAS International