The Croydon Gateway Limited Partnership (CGLP) owns the recently refurbished AMP House, which incorporates roughly 100,000 sq ft of office space, 11,700 sq ft of retail space, and close to 200 car parking spaces.
Schroder Property Investment Management has been advising the CGLP on its efforts to attract new tenants to the scheme. Lloyds TSB, Kynetix Technology Ltd, and the Royal College of Nursing are now revealed to be among those to have already signed up.
Suites with between 500 and 2,000 sq ft of space are still available at the site, with managed offices among those on offer. The offices are said to be mainly in demand from small to medium-sized businesses and start-up tech companies.
The refurbishment effort focused on revitalising the building’s reception space and communal areas. It benefits from being located very close to East Croydon train station, from which Central London is only a 15-minute journey.
“The substantial refurbishment of AMP House has confirmed that occupiers still have an appetite for space in Croydon,” said Jack Burgess, investment manager at Schroders.
“AMP House provides a good quality, efficient business environment, easy access to local amenities and, importantly, proximity to Croydon’s fantastic transport links,” he said.
The Stanhope Group Plc was responsible for the redevelopment of AMP House and worked closely with Schroders Property to see the Croydon site’s office space enhanced and made newly available. Stanhope and Schroders are two of the UK’s largest property developers and asset managers, respectively, with interests across London and other parts of the country.
Editor’s notes: Stanhope also worked with Schroders on developing Ruskin Square, which offers approximately 800,000 square feet of Grade A office space in Croydon and a host of premium retail and leisure facilities such as Box Park.