Gerald Ronson has a deal in the offing to sell the City’s Heron Tower to the Chinese but will Irvine Sellar, the man behind the Shard, ever sell up?
“Never, ” Sellar tells Spy. “I don’t need to sell — why should I? The Shard is my calling card, ” he says.
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He also reckons the building — after a slow start in the lettings market — will be full up by the end of the year.
Tongues wagging after ear wigging at Progress 1000
Ping! One City high-flier writes to tell Spy he overheard an amusing exchange while queuing to check in coats at the Standard’s Progress 1000 bash. “The bloke in front of me turned to his guest and whispered ‘if anyone asks, you’re my wife’.”
Meanwhile, comedian Elf Lyons quipped: “If Corbyn had organised the list of top 1000 the bottom 500 would have been women.”
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