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Title: Four bidders for TVC
Post by Administrator on Feb 11^th, 2012, 2:19pm

This is taken from The Times, Saturday Feb 11th. You will need to subscribe to read the full story:

Four remain in the hunt for Auntie’s pride and joy

At least four would-be owners of London’s best-known “doughnut” have formed a queue outside Television Centre.

The BBC is closing in on a sale of its landmark base in West London, shortlisting a quartet who want to buy the building and work in partnership with the broadcaster on a wider redevelopment of the site.

In a sales process first mooted in 2007, the BBC has narrowed its search to: Stanhope, a developer backed by Japan’s Mitsui Fudosan; Lend Lease, the Australian property developer that is building the London 2012 Olympic Games athletes’ village; Resolution Property, a company that has also been shortlisted to redevelop the Olympic Media Centre; and Sir Stuart Lipton’s Chelsfield Partners.

It is thought there may be a fifth, unnamed party in the frame, not a developer but a company that could occupy part of the redeveloped 14-acre White City site.

Title: Re: Four bidders for TVC
Post by FoxyFace on Feb 12^th, 2012, 11:45am

Will the BBC still use the site though after sale--or will the developers have "other" plans?