‘It’s not happening.” This is the blunt verdict on efforts to turn Canary Wharf into a shopping and leisure destination. “Mondays and Fridays are dead,” said the frank shop worker. “This shop used to take a fair bit before Covid but now everything’s changed.”
It’s an assessment that appears to be shared by other tenants in the vast east London financial hub. HSBC’s decision to leave its “tower of doom” in the docklands and move back to the City of London after more than two decades has dealt a hammer blow to Canary Wharf’s standing as a global financial centre.
The move has left
