TfL’s day job is running the capital’s bus and underground network, but it has held on to its land, and 22 years after its creation it remains the third biggest landowner in the capital, after the emirate of Qatar and the mayor of London .. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a…
Over the next decade, Graem Craig has drawn up plans to build more than 20,000 homes, with 1,650 already under construction.. The largest development is Earl’s Court, where construction is expected to start in 2025 and take 15 years..
The vision of the Earls Court Development Company, set up by TfL and Delancey, is “to bring the wonder back” to a once iconic music and events venue. But it is a vision that has been delayed and revised, and details are scarce at this stage.. 🤔
The developers went back to the drawing board, and Delancey replaced TfL’s original partner Capital & Counties Properties, after protests over plans to demolish two council estates, which have since been handed back to Hammersmith and Fulham council..
Rather than selling off its lucrative assets, TfL set up a separate property department in 2012 to develop the land and manage the properties. Nearly two-fifths of the current portfolio is shop space, but TfL wants to become a bigger player in offices and housing.
Younger people will have to be coaxed back to the office, he says, and offices will need to have pleasant, open, flexible meeting spaces and other attractions – although TfL’s won’t feature swimming pools and basketball courts, like the new Google headquarters at King’s Cross.
TfL sold land above Crossrail stations, which has generated £300m so far and is expected to bring in £500m in total.
TfL was criticised for selling off the “family silver” – its former Grade I-listed headquarters at 55 Broadway overlooking St James’s Park – to a hotels entrepreneur for £120m in 2019.
Tony Matharu, Grange Hotels’ Managing Director and Founder of IODR, with Paul Nixon (Cricketer), Prince Harry, Prince William and Devon Malcolm (Cricketer)
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"Warring Matharu brothers sell luxury Grange hotels after epic journey" - The Times, 2019 thetimes.co.uk/article/warrin…
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The sale, on which HFF Securities advised, is said to have elicited interest from international property investors and sovereign wealth funds, with a joint bid from CBRE Global Investors and Aprirose understood to have been the underbidder.
Queensgate is a partnership between the Kow family, Alvarium Investments, Peterson Group and Dilmun. It has about £2 billion of assets under management.
It funded the purchase w/a debt facility from Société Générale, the Carlyle Group & Cheyne Capital
After completion, the four Grange hotels will be leased to the operator of the Jurys Inn and Leonardo Hotels brands in a back-to-back deal. Three will be rebranded under the Leonardo Royal flag, with the Holborn property assuming Leonardo’s new lifestyle brand, NYX
The Jurys and Leonardo brands are controlled by Fattal Hotel group, an Israeli company that operates almost 200 hotels in 17 countries, including the Midland Hotel in Manchester and the Grand Harbour Hotel in Southampton. forbes.com/profile/david-…
"Sam "The Fat Man" Cagnina III (1935-2010) allegedly was an associate of the Trafficante crime family. Cagnina was born on December 13, 1935, in Tampa. Sam's father (Sam Cagnina Jr) was a crooked cop and an associate of the Trafficante crime family"
"Augustus Doricko. I am the CEO and founder of Rainmaker. We're a cloud seeding company that is enhancing precipitation via Advanced radar and also drones for the sake of supplementing Water Supplies for Farms, cities, reservoirs and Wildlife throughout the United States."🤔
Y'all JUST worked out that 'Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel is spearheading the development of a classified project .. aimed at predicting and preventing crimes before they occur—using real-time surveillance and citizen data.'?
And who is Julia Grant – Investigative Correspondent, The Intersect?
I asked Grok. > "There is no definitive evidence from the provided information or general knowledge that Julia Grant is an investigative correspondent for The Intersect.
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Also Grok:
"There is no specific reference to a "Project Oracle" associated with Palantir Technologies in the provided information or general knowledge. "
During WW2, he toured U.S. military operations in Europe, assessing the need for psychiatric care for military personnel. web.archive.org/web/2003043006…
He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge No. 385 in Independence, Missouri x.com/artisbrutal202…
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"British Medical Association severs ties with Israel over Gaza, Palantir
Doctors overwhelmingly tell professional body to end links because of genocide and infiltration of pro-Israel spyware firm into NHS"..
In a series of motions to their ‘Annual Reps Meeting’ conference in Liverpool, doctors have voted overwhelmingly to instruct their trade union, the British Medical Association (BMA), to break off relations with the Israel Medical Association (IMA) skwawkbox.org/2025/07/02/bri…
The five motions passed, by large majorities, were as follows:
• oppose the government’s adoption of the data platform created and run by Palantir, a genocide-supporting US firm whose bosses have boasted of killing people, throughout the NHS