The investment firm is working on redeveloping some former British army barracks in Chelsea, one of the largest redevelopments in London, and bought the United States Embassy building in the city center in 2009.
Letters released under the Freedom of Information Act show the mayor of London heaped praise on 2022 World Cup plans and suggested that Qatari officials should consider redeveloping the area around Tottenham Hotspur's ground in the north of the city.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England wanted the government to scale back the programme to one or two showcase towns, arguing that officials should concentrate on refurbishing existing properties and redeveloping derelict brownfield sites as well as bring 800,000 empty homes in England back to use.
Executive director Monica Pellegrino Faix says: "Our reuse weaves together the past and the present: just as with Buffalo's renewal, we are redeveloping incrementally and sensitively".
The motive is not, as you might expect, the difficulty of finding reasonably priced property above ground; rather developers seem to be excited by the mystique and ambience of these architectural curios.In fact the cost and difficulty of redeveloping old Tube stations may yet prove prohibitive.
He is working on a plan for redeveloping a building which he says "is going to be real baroque".
It removes the last big obstacle to redeveloping Ground Zero, and opens the way to issue tax-free bonds and tap other sources of private financing.
It is redeveloping former dockyard buildings in Plymouth, the vast Manningham Mills in Bradford and Dunlop's former tyre store in Birmingham, among other schemes.Another plan for Manchester's inner suburbs, likely to cost about £200m, is for 25 acres on the east side of the city centre.
Ms Ngan has extended CMB's interests in property, redeveloping old bus depots into gleaming new malls, offices and apartments.
Doing so is far cheaper than redeveloping existing urban areas.
The existing slum policy was launched a decade ago, with the aim of redeveloping all of Mumbai's slums by 2007.
