Results tagged “Millennium Dome”

While the original Dome was much maligned it did mark the beginning of major private investment in the region.

Previously, the tongue of land had held another vast container - a gas holder believed to be the largest in the world on a massive gas works.

Frenchman P-Y Gerbeau was the man parachuted into the Dome at an early stage of its year as the Millennium Experience following a disappointing start.

P-Y, now chief executive of X-Leisure which owns West India Quay, arrived from EuroDisney and impressed with his management of the ill-fated project.

Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed it would be a "beacon to the world" but for many years Greenwich's Millennium Dome was a national embarrassment.

A decade has passed since one of the most recognisable landmarks in London opened.

As part of The Wharf's Dome Decade special, Wharf editor Giles Broadbent remembers his "once-in-lifetime revel in cloud cuckoo land" - as editor of the Daily Dome newspaper at the turn of the millennium

It must rank as one of the more remarkable comebacks.

The Millennium Dome was born amid political controversy, staggered through its first year and promptly fell dark as its future became, first, the subject of rancorous debate and later on a forlorn tale of folly.

It's nearly a decade since the arrival of the Jubilee Line brought life to the Canary Wharf estate.

But the line must now expand even further to meet the challenges of the growing hive of commuters.