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City Place Gatwick is an office complex located on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, England.〔"(Cityplacegatwick )." City Place Gatwick. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 The complex includes four buildings: The Beehive, an approximately former terminal building at Gatwick Airport located on a site; 1 City Place a facility on a site, 2 City Place, a building on a plot, and 3 City Place, a building on a plot.〔"(Master Plan )." City Place Gatwick. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 Hamiltons Architects designed the "L" shaped 3 City Place.〔"(3 City Place, Gatwick )." English Architectural Glazing. Retrieved on 13 February 2011.〕 BT Wholesale formerly had an office at 1 City Place.〔"(Visiting City Place )." BT Wholesale. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 BDO International has an office at 2 City Place.〔"(Gatwick )." BDO International. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 Beehive City Place previously housed the head offices of GB Airways, which had its head office in the Beehive,〔"(The Beehive )." GB Airways. Retrieved on May 19, 2009.〕 and CP Ships, which had its head office in 2 City Place.〔"(Contact Us )." CP Ships. 4 November 2005. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 In 2012, Nestlé UK announced they would be moving their head office from St George's House Croydon to the former BT building at 1 City Place.〔"(Nestlé moves to Gatwick ). Nestlé. 5 January 2012. Retrieved on 4 March 2012.〕 ==History== City Place was developed by BAA Lynton.〔"(MEPC lands BT Workstyle pre-let at aerodrome )." ''Property Week''. 17 March 2000. Retrieved on 12 February 2011. "Signing the pre-let caps a busy week for BT. It has also pre-let 14,000 sq m (150,000 sq ft) at BAA Lynton’s 46,500 sq m (500,000 sq ft) City Place scheme at Gatwick. Both locations are part of BT’s Workstyle programme to move staff out of central London to M25 locations."〕 In March 2000,〔Mackenzie, Polly. "(BAA Lynton continues non-core disposals )." ''Property Week''. 10 October 2002. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 BT Group pre-let of space at City Place, which at the time had of available space; it was a part of an effort by BT to move employees from Central London to locations along the M25 motorway.〔 The BT 15-year lease had an initial rent of £242 per square metre. BT had an option to use an additional once the space became available. Construction at 1 City Place was completed in May 2002, and BT planned to occupy the building at the end of 2002.〔 In October 2002 BAA Lynton announced that it was selling 1 City Place, which was valued at £41.7 million. The real estate arm of Gulf Atlantic bought 1 City Place.〔 BAA received 14 million pounds from the sale of 1 City Place Gatwick and Heathrow South Cargo Centre 1.〔"(BAA Results for the Year to 31 March 2003. )" ''PR Newswire''. 3 June 2003. Retrieved on 13 February 2011.〕 2 City Place was forward funded by the Co-operative Insurance Society.〔 BAA Lynton was building phase two of 2 City Place as of November 2001.〔Godfrey, Adam. "(Crawley & Gatwick offices: Crawley's flying low )." ''Property Week''. 16 November 2001. Retrieved on 12 February 2011. "BAA Lynton is building phase two of City Place, a 7,895 sq m (85,000 sq ft) building adjoining the 13,005 sq m (140,000 sq ft) BT prelet."〕 The owners of the Beehive leased the building to GB Airways, and later sold it to the airline.〔 When Easyjet announced its purchase of most of GB Airways's assets in 2007, The Beehive was not included. The employment base at The Beehive closed, with 284 job losses.〔"(GB's slim profits hastened sale. )" ''Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland''. 2 November 2007. 4 News. Retrieved on 2 March 2011.〕 In 2003 CP Ships moved its European HQ in to 2 City Place. In 2004 it announced that it would move its head office from Trafalgar Square, City of Westminster to Gatwick.〔"(CP Ships announces succession plan )." ''Marine Log Magazine''. 17 February 2004. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 After Hapag-Lloyd acquired CP Ships, in 2006 Hapag-Lloyd announced it would cut 500 positions at Gatwick.〔"(Hapag-Lloyd cutting 44% of its jobs )." ''The New York Times''. Wednesday 19 April 2006. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 In 2007 BDO International announced that it was moving an office to Gatwick from Bromley, London Borough of Bromley. BDO leased the entire second floor of its new building.〔Sukhraj, Penny. "(BDO Bromley moves to Gatwick )." ''Accountancy Age''. 29 January 2007. Retrieved on 12 February 2011.〕 After the purchase by easyJet occurred in January 2008, the building was retained by GB's former parent company, Bland Group. Construction on a £10.2 million, four storey office building at CityPlace was completed in September 2008.〔"(City Place, Gatwick )." Bowmer & Kirkland Ltd. Retrieved on 13 February 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「City Place Gatwick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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