Foreword
Daniel Moylan, Chairman The London Legacy Development Corporation
Westfield Stratford City may be the largest urban shopping centre in Europe, but it’s a lot more than a mall. The development is a vital piece of connective tissue, linking the Olympic Park to East London, linking East London to the City, linking the UK to the Continent, and linking the capital’s past and present to our future. From the London Legacy Development Corporation’s offices alongside the railway lines, I can see the constant train services that make this one of the best connected places in London. Beyond the iconic venues of the Olympic Park, one can reach Canary Wharf, the Shard and the towers of the City of London in only a few minutes, and a constant flow of people from Stratford’s old town centre – the heartland of the East End and the home of everything from manufacturing industry to radical theatre – brings life to the shops, cafes and bars of Westfield. Westfield matters because it shows revived confidence in the Lower Lea as the crucible of London’s future. Sitting alongside the striking venues of the Olympic Park – the stadium, the aquatics centre and the ArcelorMittal Orbit – Westfield has shown the same ambition to make Stratford a place of choice for visitors, shoppers and investors, while matching that ambition with a
commitment to help local people benefit from the new jobs on offer. The scheme also showcases how public and
private infrastructure projects can work together. Westfield may have been built without London 2012, but the Olympic Bid would probably not have succeeded without being part of the wider Stratford City plan. The links between the two projects have been complex and intricate: from the construction of the athletes’ village, to the remodelling of Stratford Regional Station, co-operation has enabled two of the largest regeneration programmes in Europe to work alongside and support each other.
In the next two months the eyes of the world will be on Stratford and on the fruits of this co- operation, as London hosts the largest two sporting events in the world. After the Games, as the Olympic Park is remodelled and re-opened, Stratford City will continue to grow. There will be space for 15,000 new jobs, alongside London’s newest neighbourhoods, finest sports venues, and largest urban park for a generation. Perhaps most significantly, these two projects will work together to shift London’s economic centre of gravity, bringing London’s most exciting districts from its fringes to the heart of its future.
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