London’s changing, not burning, and its ambitions are for the good, not the worse, of the UK.
Yet, are these ambitions up to scratch?
One Leadenhall is another development on London’s epic building bend, a star struck skyscraper skyline that boasts not less than a few stellar examples of ambition and London’s jettisoned reach into global corporate warfare.
It’s a stunning sight to see; The Shard sits over the river to our right, and up ahead is the new One Leadenhall development, and over to the left are the leftovers of yet more star projects that have proved their worth, and now have to show it.
It’s not easy to prove you’re in it to win it, but at the base of it – here in central London – it seems the town is on a winning ticket.
The investment is hard to come by in a world packed with people willing to do what it takes to put their degree to good use, or their family finance up in the air, as many of our heavyweight names have done so.
Look at the family hotel developers, or the finance titans that have put down footprints in our towns and cities.
The share of hotels and apartment complexes that make sense when you think about it – when you think about people wanting to spend money, not save it after they’ve earned it.
It’s not about retirement anymore, it’s about living it while we’ve got it.
The development of One Leadenhall (see below) is just one of many, but it takes the interest of some because of its location, and because of its worth.
As I wrote before, however, it’s the task ahead that needs to be focused on, and completed.
It’s the task of filling it, not basking in it.
If you look at Photo #1, for instance, you see a sense of expectation. It’s not easy to wait for a future, but it’s there when you’ve got it.
The hopes of the ‘youth’, so-called, are still set on the old ways, but they know they’ve got to be ‘new’, in it.
Our phrases and sayings are not the same, after all.