Criterion Capital
Criterion Capital is a privately-held British property company, with a £3.6 billion[citation needed] property estate in prime areas of London, particularly in Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.[1]
Founded by current Chief Executive Asif Aziz, a Malawi-born developer,[2] the company's flagship project is the London Trocadero leisure complex on Piccadilly Circus, which was acquired in 2005. Part of the building was converted into a hotel which opened in 2020: the Zedwell Piccadilly has 728 windowless rooms and a large rooftop bar.[3][4] Plans were submitted in May 2020 to develop parts of the building's basement into a mosque.[5]
Criterion Capital is also developing projects in Croydon with the purchase of two office buildings around 2015,[6] and has a riverside site at Enderby's Wharf, East Greenwich.[7]
The ultimate owner of the company is a trust linked to Aziz, via ACT Property Holdings Ltd, an Isle of Man company.[8]
References
- ^ "Criterion Capital - Stay - Live - Work". criterioncapital.co.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ Rudgard, Olivia (4 October 2017). "Billionaire property developer says he was never married to 'wife' in bid to protect fortune, court hears". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ^ "Zedwell Piccadilly". Expedia. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Sheppard, Owen (5 March 2018). "Rooftop bar to be built on the Trocadero in expanded hotel plan". Evening Standard. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Mosque plans submitted for London's Trocadero". BBC News. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
- ^ Creighton, Sean (6 March 2015). "All yuppie apartments and no family homes – a risk for central Croydon?". Croydon Citizen. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Greenwich cruise terminal plan scrapped for housing". The Construction Index. 8 July 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Criterion Capital Limited: Annual report 2019". Companies House. March 2019. p. 13. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
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