Convene completes prelet at EightyFen

YardNine has confirmed it has prelet 70,000 sq ft at its City office scheme EightyFen, EC3, to Convene. It will be the US serviced office group’s second London location, having previously prelet 102,000 sq ft at 22 Bishopsgate, EC2. At EightyFen, Convene will offer fully furnished plug-and-play flexible work suites for small to mid-sized companies under its Convene WorkPlace brand. The premises will span nearly 40,000 sq ft across floors two and three, and include private and communal areas, catering by award-winning chefs, as well as hospitality services. In addition, there will be 30,000 sq ft of Convene-operated meeting and events space across the lower ground and first floors, as well as a 2,000 sq ft ground-floor café and lounge and an exclusive Convene reception area. Convene will also operate the building’s commercial kitchen, providing gourmet catering offerings for the entire building. Located at 80 Fenchurch Street in the City of London, EightyFen will provide 240,000 sq ft of office space across 14 storeys with six landscaped roof gardens covering 12,359 sq ft when it completes in June. YardNine co-founder Maxwell Shand said: “Convene is a forward-thinking workspace provider whose ethos to create high-quality, customer-first workspaces and experiences in iconic buildings mirrors our ambition for EightyFen. “From the outset, EightyFen was conceived as a workplace of the future, and during our comprehensive redesign of the building two years ago we challenged our team to create a unique workplace environment that would attract leading occupiers. “Securing Convene as our first prelet is a strong endorsement of this strategy, and we look forward to working with the team to create a building that puts service at the forefront of the user experience.” Ryan Simonetti, chief executive and co-founder of Convene, added: “Our EightyFen location will be our first fully ‘Convene-enabled’ location in London that showcases our full suite of meetings, events, flexible workspace and amenity offerings. “In partnership with YardNine, our goal is to bring value to the entire building and the surrounding business community. By creating spaces that are inspiring, technology-driven and hospitality-infused, we are supporting companies’ goals of attracting and retaining the best talent while enabling engaging experiences throughout the building.” To send feedback, e-mail louise.dransfield@egi.co.uk or tweet @DransfieldL or @estatesgazette