Battersea is part of a huge building project – but not for Londoners | Business | The Guardian
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Via Pierre Ageron sur twitter
Upmarket estate agent Henry Wiltshire has just opened a glitzy new office in Vauxhall, south-west London. It’s by the bus station, next to a homeless shelter, on the site of a corner shop. The company’s other offices are in rather more glamorous surroundings: Canary Wharf, Hong Kong, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
But this opening is evidence of the dramatic transformation under way in the Nine Elms area in Battersea, on the south bank of the Thames. In a triangle bordered by the river, Battersea Park and the main railway line into Waterloo, 20,000 homes are being built – most of them luxury apartments in a cluster of high-rise towers that has been dubbed mini-Manhattan or Dubai-on-Thames.