1 City Place, Gatwick (geograph 1676727)

City Place Gatwick is an office complex located on the property of

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. The complex includes four buildings:

The Beehive The Beehive ( mi, Te Whare Mīere) is the common name for the Executive Wing of New Zealand Parliament Buildings, located at the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington. It is so-called because its shape is reminiscent of that ...

, an approximately former terminal building at Gatwick Airport located on a site; 1 City Place a facility on a site, 2 City Place, a building on a plot, and 3 City Place, a building on a plot. Hamiltons Architects designed the "L" shaped 3 City Place.

BT Wholesale BT Wholesale and Ventures was a division of United Kingdom telecommunications company BT Group that provided voice, broadband, data, hosted communication, managed network and IT services to communications providers (CPs) in Great Britain. It was m ...

formerly had an office at 1 City Place.

BDO International BDO (an acronym for Binder Dijker Otte) is an international network of public accounting, tax, consulting and business advisory firms that provide professional services under the name BDO. It is the fifth-largest accounting network in the worl ...

has an office at 2 City Place. Beehive City Place previously housed the head offices of

GB Airways GB Airways was a British airline; prior to its sale, it was headquartered in "The Beehive," a former terminal building, at City Place Gatwick, London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was originally created as ' ...

, which had its head office in the Beehive, and

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, which had its head office in 2 City Place. In 2012,

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UK announced they would be moving their head office from St George's House Croydon to the former BT building at 1 City Place.

History

City Place was developed by BAA Lynton.MEPC lands BT Workstyle pre-let at aerodrome
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''. 17 March 2000. Retrieved on 12 February 2011. "Signing the pre-let caps a busy week for BT. It has also pre-let 14,000 sq m (150,000 sq ft) at BAA Lynton’s 46,500 sq m (500,000 sq ft) City Place scheme at Gatwick. Both locations are part of BT’s Workstyle programme to move staff out of central London to M25 locations." In March 2000,Mackenzie, Polly.
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''. 10 October 2002. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.

BT Group BT Group plc (trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, broa ...

pre-let of space at City Place, which at the time had of available space; it was a part of an effort by BT to move employees from Central London to locations along the

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. The BT 15-year lease had an initial rent of £242 per square metre. BT had an option to use an additional once the space became available. Construction at 1 City Place was completed in May 2002, and BT planned to occupy the building at the end of 2002. In October 2002 BAA Lynton announced that it was selling 1 City Place, which was valued at £41.7 million. The real estate arm of

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bought 1 City Place. BAA received 14 million pounds from the sale of 1 City Place Gatwick and Heathrow South Cargo Centre 1. 2 City Place was forward funded by the Co-operative Insurance Society. BAA Lynton was building phase two of 2 City Place as of November 2001. The owners of the Beehive leased the building to GB Airways, and later sold it to the airline. When

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announced its purchase of most of

's assets in 2007, The Beehive was not included. The employment base at The Beehive closed, with 284 job losses. In 2003

moved its European HQ in to 2 City Place. In 2004 it announced that it would move its head office from

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to Gatwick. After

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acquired CP Ships, in 2006 Hapag-Lloyd announced it would cut 500 positions at Gatwick. In 2007

announced that it was moving an office to Gatwick from

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. BDO leased the entire second floor of its new building. After the purchase by easyJet occurred in January 2008, the building was retained by GB's former parent company,

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. Construction on a £10.2 million, four storey office building at CityPlace was completed in September 2008.

Former tenants

The Beehive, Gatwick Airport (IoE Code 461938)

A number of airlines have had offices at the Beehive, including BEA/British Airways Helicopters,

Jersey Airlines Jersey Airlines was an early post-World War II private, independentindependent from government-owned corporations British airline formed in 1948. In 1952, the airline operated its first scheduled service. Four years later, British European Ai ...

Caledonian Airways Caledonian Airways was a wholly private, independentindependent from government-owned corporations British charter airline formed in April 1961. It began with a single 104-seat Douglas DC-7C leased from the Belgian flag carrier Sabena.''Flyi ...

, Virgin Atlantic and

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. Retrieved 19 May 2009. Other airlines which had headquarters on airport property (including office buildings on the site of, or adjacent to, the original 1930s airport) include

British Caledonian British Caledonian (BCal) was a British private independent airline which operated out of Gatwick Airport in south-east England during the 1970s and 1980s. It was created as an alternative to the British government-controlled corporation airlin ...

British United Airways British United Airways (BUA) was a private, independentindependent from government-owned corporations British airline formed as a result of the merger of Airwork Services and Hunting-Clan Air Transport in July 1960, making it the largest wholly ...

CityFlyer Express CityFlyer Express was a short-haul regional airline with its head office in the Iain Stewart Centre next to London Gatwick Airport in England. In 1993 it became the first British Airways (BA) franchisee operating as ''British Airways Express''. ...

Laker Airways Laker Airways was a private British airline founded by Sir Freddie Laker in 1966. It was originally a charter airline flying passengers and cargo worldwide. Its head office was located at Gatwick Airport in Crawley, England. It became the seco ...

and

Tradewinds Airways Tradewinds Airways Ltd was a British all-cargo airline. Its head office was located in Timberham House, on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, England. History Tradewinds was founded in November 1968 after the collapse of ...

. "Head Office: Gatwick Airport, Horley. Surrey."''World Airline Directory''. Flight International. 20 March 1975
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"Head Office: Gatwick Airport, Horley, Surrey."

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