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British Land is in negotiations to let 200,000 sq ft of office space at Regent's Place in London, including 120,000 sq ft for Aegis, 58,000 sq ft for Gazprom and 31,000 sq ft for Betfair. 22-Feb-2010 Sainsbury's is to invest £273m in a joint venture with British Land to buy back 39 retail sites, in order to add about 500,000 sq ft of selling space and increase non-food sales. 27-Mar-2008 British Land is to invest £13m in the refurbishment of the Eastgate shopping centre in Basildon by the end of the year. 19-Mar-2007 Whitbread is to sell its chain of 45 TGI Friday's restaurants to Carlson Restaurants, ABN Amro Capital and British Land for £70m, in order to focus on hotels and coffee shops. 18-Jan-2007 British Land is planning to relocate its London headquarters from Regents Park to a larger site north of Oxford Street over the next 18 months. 28-Nov-2005 Tesco has reached agreement with Rosemound and British Land to set up a 750,000 sq ft distribution centre at the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal. 14-Mar-2005 Southwark Council has agreed a £1bn property project with British Land, which will involve shops, homes and a leisure centre being built at Rotherhithe Peninsula. 18-Jan-2005 British Land has bought 65 managed pubs from Spirit Group for £174m. 21-Oct-2004 British Land and Rosemound have won planning permission to build a 750,000 sq ft warehouse at the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal. 03-May-2004 British Land and Land Securities are forming a £500m joint venture to merge their Scottish shopping centre holdings in Aberdeen and East Kilbride, which will enable them to better manage the sites by moving shops around. 19-Mar-2004 British Land is seeking permission to build a 48-storey office building at Leadenhall Street in the City of London. 11-Feb-2004 MGM Mirage of the US and British Land have announced plans to build a £250m casino, hotel and leisure complex next to the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield, which would create about 2,000 jobs. 04-Feb-2004 British Land has bought GUS out of their BL Universal property joint venture, which includes 101 sites, for £120m. 18-Nov-2003 British Land and Rank have sold their joint venture leisure company, which includes leisure parks in Glasgow, Leicester and Southampton, to Heron International for £107m. 22-Jul-2002 British Land has acquired a further 43 acres of land around the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield, which could lead to the development of a further 1m sq ft of retail space. 14-May-2002 Chelsfield and British Land are considering plans to form a £1bn joint venture to develop the White City shopping centre in west London. 18-Feb-2002 Asda Property is being acquired by a management buy-out backed by British Land for £232m. 20-Aug-2001 British Land is planning to raise £307m by selling a number of City of London properties to a new joint venture with Westdeutsche Landesbank of Germany, and the proceeds will be used to reduce debt. 03-Oct-2000 British Land is linking up with four other leading landlords - Canary Wharf, Norwich Union, Prudential and Legal & General - to install broadband telecoms technology in their buildings, and discussions have begun with a number of providers. 30-Jun-2000 Taylor Woodrow is linking up with Centros Miller and British Land to plan a £150m redevelopment of Portsmouth city centre. 02-Sep-1999 House of Fraser is placing 15 of its stores into a sale and leaseback joint venture with British Land, in order to generate funds for its capital investment programme. 14-Jul-1999 British Land has agreed to buy the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield for £1.17bn, including an option to buy 48 acres of potential development land next to the centre. 09-Jul-1999 British Land is in negotiations to acquire the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield for about £1.2bn. 25-May-1999 British Land is planning to demolish former car showrooms in Plymouth's Millbay Road in order to make way for a £7m hotel, pub and car showroom complex. 04-May-1999 British Land and Centros Miller are bidding to transform the north of Portsmouth's city centre into a major retail and leisure complex, and they are expected to submit outline planning applications in June. 26-Apr-1999 British Land and Stannifer are planning a 250,000 sq ft retail and leisure complex in East Kilbride, with completion in 2001. 09-Oct-1998 British Land and Railtrack have won permission to build a 700,000 sq ft office block near Liverpool Street station in London. 06-Oct-1998 British Land has raised its stake in Selfridges to 6.3%, prompting speculation that it is interested in the department store's valuable Oxford Street site in London. 01-Oct-1998 Holmes Place is looking to open more health and fitness clubs in the London area and is in discussions with British Land about the acquisition of two Broadgate clubs. 09-Sep-1998 Holmes Place, the fitness club operator, is said to be interested in acquiring Broadgate Club, the London gym currently owned by British Land. 24-Aug-1998 British Land has bought a 3.1% stake in Selfridges, prompting speculation that it may be seeking to benefit from any future sale of the retailer's property assets. 13-Aug-1998 Tesco is forming a £460m joint venture with British Land to own and operate 12 shopping centres and Tesco superstores, a move seen as part of a trend for retailers to transfer properties from their balance sheets to partnerships with property companies. 03-Mar-1998 British Land and Crest Nicholson have formed a consortium that has been chosen to develop a £200m commercial and residential scheme on the north side of the harbour in Bristol. 18-Nov-1997 Friendly Hotels is to buy out British Land's stake in Friendly Lodges, their joint venture with 7 hotels, for £2.9m. 11-Apr-1997 Great Universal Stores has set up a joint venture with British Land, called BL Universal, which will manage GUS' investment property portfolio. 28-Feb-1997 Great Universal Stores is in discussions to set up a real estate joint venture with British Land, which would buy and manage the investment property interests of GUS. 18-Feb-1997 Tesco and British Land are forming a £175m joint venture in which they will pool a number of retail properties, in a type of sale and leaseback arrangement which will unlock some of Tesco's capital. 29-Nov-1996
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