Google has completed a deal to take the remaining space at 6 Pancras Square at King’s Cross, N1, to occupy the whole 365,000 sq ft block.
As tipped by Estates Gazette in November 2014, the search engine giant has taken the remaining 185,000 sq ft of the building being developed by BNP Paribas Real Estate and forward funded by AXA Real Estate Investment Managers and PSP Investments.
It agreed in April last year to take some of the building on a 15-year lease following a decision to redraw plans for its proposed 1m sq ft headquarters building at a nearby plot.
BNP Paribas Real Estate chief executive Thierry Laroue-Pont said: “This deal really is a tribute to our property development business which has created such a top-quality modern building that garnered huge interest from other occupiers.”
Harry Badham, head of UK development at AXA Real Estate, added: “As part of the letting, we worked with Google to facilitate its potential expansion into the rest of the building and were delighted to work with BNP to enable this to happen as we draw towards completion of the building in early 2015.”
The space was originally intended for BNP Paribas. It announced in 2012 that it would occupy just over half the office space at 6 Pancras Square, which occupies plot B1 on the King’s Cross Central Partnership’s 67-acre regeneration site.
CBRE advised Google; BNP PRE acted for BNP Paribas; CBRE advised AXA on the letting of 6 Pancras Square.
