CLIENT
M&G Real Estate / Qmile Group
CLIENT INDUSTRY
Offices
SERVICES PROVIDED
Office Agency
LOCATION
Edinburgh
SIZE/VALUE
280,000 sq ft - £350m scheme
DIVISION INVOLVED
Office Agency
Investment
DATE
2020
CHALLENGE
Foster + Partners designed premier mixed-use development comprising: 380,000 sq ft of Grade A office as well as leisure, retail, hotel and events space. Advice required in terms of the design, delivery, letting of the Grade A offices.
SOLUTION
Provision of high level strategy advice from the early stage design, of both the offices and environment, through to delivery. This advice was supplemented by the formulation and implementation of a highly successful marketing strategy.
RESULTS
M&G Real Estate and development manager Qmile Group have secured Baillie Gifford for a 280,000 sq ft pre-let at its landmark £350m Haymarket Edinburgh scheme. Baillie Gifford have agreed to take the Grade A offices on a 20 year lease and will relocate to its new head office in 2023. There is good interest in the remaining 110,000 sq ft pf Grade A offices.