Why invest here?
Tower Hamlets is often described as a city within a city, offering the best of London in one borough.
Our borough is the fastest growing and most densely populated place in the country, and attracts residents, visitors and businesses for good reason.
Tower Hamlets offers an unrivalled mix of destinations and events, some of the UK’s biggest economic and tourism hubs, a young and skilled workforce, and incredible infrastructure and transport links.
Tower Hamlets represents London’s history and its future. The borough has all the ingredients to make an investment a success.
Connections across London and beyond
With more London Underground stations than any other borough, travel across the capital simple and efficient. The Elizabeth Line provides fast connections from Whitechapel and Canary Wharf into central London and to destinations as far as Essex and Reading. Residents, workers and visitors also benefit from convenient access to Heathrow Airport and City Airport on their doorstep.
Economic powerhouse
Tower Hamlets generates the third largest economic output in the UK. Aldgate East and Canary Wharf are powerful economic hubs with businesses including BT, JP Morgan and Visa among the latest multinationals to pick our borough for their Headquarters.
Entrepreneuship is in our DNA, shaped by the history of world trade and immigration from The Docks. Locations such as Old Spitalfields Market, Brick Lane, Fish Island and Hackney Wick are home to small businesses, creative industries and startup companies. New life science clusters are being developed in Whitechapel and Canary Wharf, strengthening the borough’s reputation for research and innovation.
Superb lifestyle
Tower Hamlets has destinations and events that are the envy of any world city.
Major events including the London Marathon, Lido, All Points East and In The Neighbourhood festivals in Victoria Park, and the new SXSW tech, music and film festival in Brick Lane.
Destinations include a range of attractions, from historic venues such as the Tower of London, Young V&A and Museum of London Docklands, music venues including The Troxy and Wilton’s Music Hall and famous markets including Spitalfields, and the award-winning Petticoat Lane Food Market and Columbia Road Flower Market.
Canary Wharf offers more than 100 events a year, with new destinations including The Troubadour theatre and the Eden Project.
Hackney Wick and Fish Island are within and alongside Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Young and gifted workforce
More than 300,000 people work in Tower Hamlets, almost matching the number who live here. The borough has the youngest population in London with an average age of just 30. Their skills are honed by our excellent schools, and universities including Queen Mary University of London and University College London.
