First look inside Budweiser’s new London base
Evans Randall Investors is close to securing brewing giant AB InBev as the first tenant at its recently launched £115m Bureau office scheme at 90 Fetter Lane, EC4.
The global purveyor of Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois is believed to have taken a 15-year lease at the 73,000 sq ft building and is expected to move around 250 of its staff from its current UK head office in Luton. It will occupy more than 25,000 sq ft across the top four floors.
Evans Randall Investors is close to securing brewing giant AB InBev as the first tenant at its recently launched £115m Bureau office scheme at 90 Fetter Lane, EC4.
The global purveyor of Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois is believed to have taken a 15-year lease at the 73,000 sq ft building and is expected to move around 250 of its staff from its current UK head office in Luton. It will occupy more than 25,000 sq ft across the top four floors.
Top rents for the best space at Bureau, which comprises 60,000 sq ft of office space and around 13,000 sq ft of flexible retail and office space, are understood to be hitting £80 per sq ft.
The deal is the culmination of Evans Randall Investors’ three-year development programme, during which it worked with central London development manager Core and John Robertson Architects to create a building that would appeal to an increasingly diversified occupier sector for office space within the 2,500-10,000 sq ft range.
Hingston Studio, whose clients include Rolls-Royce, Dior and Paul Smith, also collaborated on the scheme to revamp the 1980s office building.
It features a double-height reception with a specially commissioned art installation by artist Paul Cocksedge, a club-style snug area and a marble and concrete staircase.
Bureau is one of the first privately owned office buildings in the UK to adopt real-time facial recognition software to actively “recognise” and welcome its guests, doing away with the need to register at a reception desk. It will provide 1GB data to its tenants, as well as 130 cycle spaces, 13 showers, 146 lockers with USB sockets and bike service facilities.
An AB InBev spokesperson said: “We are in advanced discussions about the workspace but can’t comment further until the details have been finalised.”
Evans Randall declined to comment.
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