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- Bouverie House start planned
- Moorvale to complete by 2009
- Como on target
- New scheme for EC2
- Demolition in EC3

City completion
ING Real Estate has completed its 1,548 sq m (16,667 sq ft) office refurbishment of the seven-storey office and retail building at 2-4 Eastcheap, London, EC3. Tuffin Ferraby Taylor advised. Cuffe was main contractor and the letting agent is King Sturge.

Green light for Shard
Sellar Property is likely to start construction of the Shard tower in London, SE1 later in 2008, after a finance package was agreed with Qatari-backed consortium - the Qatari Islamic Investment bank QInvest, Qatar National Bank and Qatari Islamic Bank. Sellar will remain the developer for completion of Shard of Glass tower and 55,740 sq m (600,000 sq ft) New London Bridge House in 2011. The schemes were designed by Renzo Piano. Cushman & Wakefield advised on planning, and Mace is project manager.

Pinnacle tower progress
Demolition at Arab Investment's site at 22-24 Bishopsgate, London, EC2 is due to complete in February 2008. Mace is project manager. Multiplex is to build the new £500m, 288m-high office tower which will be completed in 2010.

November inquiry for EC1 scheme
The public inquiry to determine Thornfield Properties’ contentious 35,303 sq m (380,000 sq ft) office scheme at Smithfield market, London, EC1 will begin in November 2007. A successful outcome for Thornfield may prompt a 2008 construction start.

Shard demolition plans
Teighmore, the consortium consisting of Sellar Property, CLS and Simon Halabi, is hoping to start demolition at the London Bridge Station (Shard of Glass) site in London, SE1, in mid October 2007. The demolition will take seven months. The main construction contract will not start until funding is in place but a Middle Eastern bank is said to be considering financing the £1bn scheme. Completion of the development is expected in 2010 or 2011.