West End Feasibility Study

Hospitality

⥤ Overview

A feasibility study on a prime west end site, looking to see what would happen and what the potential retail and office space options might be if a major incumbent retailer didn’t renew its lease on its existing, huge-scale retail unit.

⥤ Brief

The landlord/QS client team wanted to explore in particular how the five-storey site, measuring almost 13,000 sq m in total, might break down into smaller retail units, with two new floors of office space above.

⥤ Challenges

Although this was an exciting space to plan, with both front and rear access used, transforming loading bays into retail entrances to the rear for example, it involved a lot of challenging scenario-planning for both circulation and service cores, in order to provide a scheme that could serve such different potential end user configurations.