If you look out the windows of the Property Week office in Croydon, you can see cranes in almost every direction, most of them hoisting building materials up and down residential towers.
Artificial intelligence (AI) virtual assistant provider Meet Parker has appointed Dominic Grace to its advisory board.
Grace, who has 35 years’ experience at Savills, has joined the team to further the development of Meet Parker’s property solution.
As part of this process, Meet Parker will be deploying its virtual assistant at various different stages of the property process – from upfront lead generation and nurturing, to use by agents to communicate directly with clients during the property transaction.
Freddie Savundra, founder of Meet Parker, said: “Dom is a one of the most respected players in the proptech sphere, with years of experience leading the Savills London residential team.
Renderings of the “city within a city” concept outside central London. (Brent Cross Town)
Related Companies made a big bet on the “city within a city” concept in New York with its Hudson Yards megaproject and now it’s trying something even more ambitious in London.
The firm has partnered with Argent, a developer in the U.K., to build a so-called “15-minute city,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The joint venture of Argent Related is calling the project Brent Cross Town.
The 180-acre site that’s more than six times the size of Hudson Yards will have some 6,700 homes, along with 3 million square feet of office space, 50 acres of parkland and other amenities. The project, located about eight miles from central London, will also get a new train station in 2022 to ferry commuters into the city.