DOME BIDDER DENIES CONCERN.A MAJOR backer of the consortium preparing to take over the Millennium Dome This article is about the Millennium Dome before its redevelopment and renaming to The O2 in 2005. insisted last that the deal was still on. Maurice Harte, chief executive of Treasury Holdings, said that the purchase was going ahead, despite news that another major rival was ready to throw its hat into the ring to buy the attraction. But he admitted that his consortium was in a difficult position, and continued to refuse to name major companies interested in taking space in the planned Knowledge Village. 'To have a firm signed up and agreed as a tenant when you don't even own the property is quite difficult,' he said. 'But I can confirm that, based on my knowledge and based on the research we have done, there is interest from a number of well-respected names.' The Dome dome, a roof circular or (rarely) elliptical in plan and usually hemispherical in form, placed over a circular, square, oblong, or polygonal space. Domes have been built with a wide variety of outlines and of various materials. project was unique, he said, but problems thrown up in the course of talks with the Government were 'nothing to cause me concern'. A new rival bid could come from Grosvenor Estates, owned by the Duke of Westminster The title Duke of Westminster was created by Queen Victoria in 1874 and bestowed upon Richard Grosvenor, the 3rd Marquess of Westminster. The title is derived from Westminster. . If the Government decided to invite new bids for the Dome, Grosvenor said it could join forces with Quintain quin·tain n. A post or an object mounted on a post, used as a target in tilting exercises. [Middle English quintaine, from Old French, probably from Latin Estates, which already owns a 12-acre site on the Greenwich peninsula The Greenwich Peninsula, sometimes known as the Blackwall Peninsula or Bugsby Marshes or North Greenwich (due to the location of North Greenwich tube station), in the London Borough of Greenwich, is bounded on its northern perimeter by the River Thames. , with the aim of building luxury apartments and offices next to the Dome. |
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