This is the main event in the annual celebration of Black History Month and Exemplar were proud to be lead sponsor for 2011. Held at the renowned RichMix Centre in Shoreditch, over 200 people enjoyed a night of live music and merriment. The event bought every culture possible under one roof to enjoy performances from a number of singers from the cast of Thriller currently appearing in the west end, local performers Fil Straughan,Patrick Alan,Angie Brown backed by the Mighty Dukes band. Tributes were paid to Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin and many more.

Baroness Oona King of Bow, Trevor Philips OBE and our very own Daniel Van Gelder addressed the evening giving speeches to celebrate the rich Black History of London and in particular the East End.

The event was opened by Spitalfields Councillor Helal Abbas together with the leader of the LBTH Labour group, Councillor Joshua Peck.  The event was hosted by Phil Gannon and backed by the Mighty Dukes Band.  House diva Angie Brown, Manuela Pannizio, Noreen Stewart and Ricci P Washington all paid tribute to great singers of our past and present including Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Bob Marley. Other highlights included the music maestro Rick James on his guitar, poetry from Anna Mae, the break dancing phenomenon of Two and a Half Men (Britians Got Talent) and the awesome Spitalfields Bangra dancers.

A hugely fun afternoon with great spirit and entertainment all round. Our thanks to the organisers from Crystal Enterprises.

The response was fantastic, with over 485 people coming to visit over the six days of the exhibition and with many providing us with useful feedback and comments.

We are now in the process of furthering our designs with the aim of submitting a planning application later in the summer with the intention of commencing development as soon as planning consent is granted.

For those who were unable to make the public exhibition, click here to take you through to the dedicated website to download the materials that were on display at the public exhibition.

Signature architects, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Sheppard Robson, have been working together to prepare a masterplan and design concepts that will be on display at a public exhibition to be held on the site from 27th June to 2nd July.

Over 80 interested parties came to the site on the first day of the exhibition – we hope that as many people as possible can come and have a look at the plans – and most importantly let us know what they think – and hopefully we can include your feedback in the final plans for the site.

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As developers we get involved in a wide range of property activities, such as building design, market research, letting, construction, planning and working with joint venture partners.  Our aim was to expose Callum to as many of these workstreams as possible in the  short term he was with us.

This included a construction site meeting with Construction Partner Campbell MacDougall, Design Team Meetings, Stakeholder Construction Meeting, Verified Views Meeting and a Planning Strategy Meeting.  Michael Bucknell also took Callum through the contents of a development process and development appraisal lecture he gives annually at Cambridge and introduced him to many of the systems used in property development.  Callum was also assigned a project to research retail targets for one of Exemplar’s projects and managed to squeeze in a tour of some competing office buildings in the City and attended a residential research breakfast held by one of the leading residential agencies.