A meeting at MIPIM with a private investment broker who invests in property for very wealthy individuals. He says they visit and know London, and that is what they are comfortable with. In other words, Newcastle and Gateshead are off the map.
After 20 minutes, I have a contact to pass on to perhaps unlock one of our stalled student housing schemes, and I am asking him for ideas for the next stage of our Riverside Dene project: five tower blocks, currently poor quality council housing (but with five other blocks being fabulously transformed). I am trying the high risk strategy: to make a pitch memorable, make it difficult.
Tags: MIPIM, Newcastle, regeneration