Business and Pleasure: Living and Working in the Sky Residences

London is one of the world’s global financial centres, home to countless big-name corporations and the head offices of some of the planet’s biggest banks and businesses, including a large number of Fortune 500 companies – billions of pounds pour in and out of the capital each day. London is home to one of the youngest, most highly skilled workforces in the country, with an international workforce, and one in five financial services jobs in the UK exists in London. Because of this, it’s a huge part of the economy, generating over £85bn a year. It’s no surprise that the world’s leading companies, including Amazon and Salesforce, have set up their headquarters in the city.

Part of the reason for this is the city’s amazing travel connections, linking the UK to other global powerhouses in wider Europe, North America and Asia via air and rail. The City of London is perhaps the world’s most famous setting for banking though the strong economy means it’s also a hub for technology and media industries, while the capital’s excellent universities generate skilled a diverse and workforce that provides a huge talent pool for recruitment.

London’s amazing business prowess is one of the reasons for the situation of the UK’s first Pan Pacific hotel – where better than the epicentre of the city? The hotel and the Sky Residences have a privileged position close to the Square Mile and are surrounded by some of the city’s most iconic skyscrapers, including the Gherkin, Heron Tower and the Fenchurch Building – more commonly known as the ‘walkie-talkie’.

Not only this, but there are also amazing transport links on the doorstep, via plane, train (or tube), taxi or bus, and many of the city’s top business and entertainment venues are accessible on foot. Living in the Sky Residences at One Bishopsgate Plaza means you’re close to work, while being moments away from escaping to somewhere new.

First-class travel links

One of the highlights of One Bishopsgate Plaza’s setting is its proximity to train links: Liverpool Street Station is 10 minutes’ walk away and is the country’s busiest station, serving around 80 million passengers a year. The station has been recently gentrified with the arrival of the Elizabeth line, and there are further plans for more extensive redevelopments to transform the station into a global transport hub. As well as the ‘Lizzie line’, which links the station with Canary Wharf in under 20 minutes, Liverpool Street also has National Rail services to Cambridgeshire, Essex, Greater London, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and has an underground station on the Central, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines – there are very few places in London you can’t reach via Liverpool Street Station.

The Elizabeth line also links Liverpool Street – and the Sky Residences – with London City and Heathrow airports (London City via one change to the DLR) meaning business travel further afield is made easy, with a huge range of international flights available from both airports. The Eurostar terminal at St Pancras is 11 minutes away from Liverpool Street, which means travel to the continent – Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels – is even easier. London’s other airports, including Gatwick and Stansted, are also accessible within an hour.

Help at home

As well as all the privacy and comfort that your apartment in the Sky Residences brings, there are also a whole host of excellent business amenities available as a resident. Most notably is the attentive concierge service*, which is available day and night to assist with any of your business (or personal) needs, whether that’s help with printing or mailing documents, picking up your dry cleaning and delivering straight back to your closet, booking taxis to collect you from the front door or arranging client entertainment, such as making restaurant reservations. Connectivity is a huge bonus too, with lightning-fast Wi-Fi in all the apartments and business spaces.

If you’re looking to host, the Pan Pacific is the perfect place for it. There are multiple business suites available to book to ensure privacy, with space for as many as 400 guests in the ballroom/conference centre and smaller rooms for meetings of all sizes – each meeting space is named after a famous area of London and features 4K LED screens, conference phones and speakers with integrated video conferencing. There are floor-to-ceiling windows making each space light, bright and welcoming and catering is available from the on-site restaurant. Guests can experience the luxury of London living by staying overnight in the five-star Pan Pacific – while making the most of the exceptional facilities – and the hotel’s two restaurants, as well as private dining rooms are perfect for entertaining.

If you’d rather head out to one of the area’s top restaurants, there are plenty of options within a short distance of the Sky Residences, including The Ned, The Ivy City Garden, the Devonshire Club private members’ club and both Sushi Samba and Duck & Waffle next door in Heron Tower.

Everything about the Sky Residences has been designed to make your day to day life easier. A typical day could see you waking up to work out in the state-of-the-art gym, while the concierge drops off your dry cleaning direct to your wardrobe. After getting ready for the day, enjoy a short commute – either on foot, by tube or via taxi called for you by the concierge – into the City of London, then break for a client lunch in The Ned, arranged for you by the concierge. That evening, catch a flight to Zurich for a meeting the following day, while the concierge arranges your Ocado delivery so that your groceries are waiting for you on your return.

Businesses within reach

As well as the excellent transport links locally, there are a wide number of large corporations within walking distance of One Bishopsgate Plaza. In less than five minutes you can be on the doorstep of Deutsche Bank, the NatWest Building at 250 Bishopsgate, Allianz Global Investors and Swiss Re, located in the Gherkin. Slightly further afield, but still perfectly walkable in under 15 minutes, you’ll find Lloyds Banking Group’s head office building, AXA Investment Managers, the Bank of England and Bank of China, as well as a huge number of creative, media, tech and professional services enterprises.  Salesforce, Amazon and Sky News offices can all be found within a few steps of One Bishopsgate Plaza.

 Contact us today at +44 7971 338282 to schedule a private tour of The Sky Residences.

*Pay-as-you-go basis