Key advantages
Sector locations
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Soft Landing Business Assistance
Looking to expand or relocate your business to the UK?
Then target the Thames Gateway, the UK's premier inward investment location and London's main growth area. With Invest Thames Gateway's help through its Soft Landing Programme, your move will be smooth, effortless, quick and economic.
Stratford City
With superb IT, communications and technical infrastructure and a well trained and highly knowledgeable workforce, Southend, Greenwich and Stratford are fast becoming the prime locations for back-office, IT and technical support provision.
Home to the Olympic Park, Stratford City is set to become a new, contemporary and vibrant metropolitan centre in the Thames Gateway. With its world class office space, the area is being constructed to the highest environmental standards and will create an estimated 35,000 new jobs in key sectors including finance and business services.
Key facts
- Largest mixed-use urban regeneration project ever seen in UK
- 5.0 million sq ft high-quality office space
- Nearly 5,000 new homes supported by new primary and secondary schools and a new primary healthcare and walk in NHS centre
- Expected to open up jobs in key sectors including finance and business services, retail and leisure and hospitality
- High quality retail centre with John Lewis and Waitrose amongst the first retailers to commit
- Expansion of Stratford Regional Station and 2 new bus stations
- Bridge link between Stratford City and existing town centre


