TITANIC A 21ST QUARTER FINANCIAL SERVICES CENTURY CENTRE ICON TQFSC - Phase I When she was launched in Belfast in 1911, the Titanic Titanic Quarter represented the ultimate marriage of international Titanic Quarter FSC Master-planned by Civic Arts, Titanic Quarter is one of Europe’s finance and high technology. Supporting the Financial Services Industry largest urban waterfront regeneration schemes – 185-acres of former ship building land with one mile of waterfront adjacent to on the island of Ireland and beyond Funded, and owned by JP Morgan, the Titanic was the most remarkable physical manifestation of what was Belfast City Centre. possible when the leading creative talents of the era The £7bn mixed-use site will be home to 20,000 people and will “The sector focus of Invest NI’s inward investment were given access to its money markets. include a range of major new landmark developments offering hi- marketing and sales strategy is to attract higher- tech, commercial, leisure, retail, hotel and education space that will A century later, Titanic Quarter, based on an 185- form a new urban community for creative knowledge workers. value-added activities in Financial Services and acre site where the Titanic was built and designed, is information and communication technology.” helping reconnect Belfast and Northern Ireland with the International Financial Services Sector – using the latest Arlene Foster MLA, Northern Ireland Economy Minister telecoms technology and platforms to help investors plug into global networks and the region’s exceptional skills base. COMMUNITY Smart Money The sector currently employs 20,000 across, 1,200 firms providing • 750,000 sq ft Financial Services Centre Phase I of Titanic Quarter’s Financial Services Centre is already retail, commercial and investment banking, insurance fund complete, the 150,000 sq ft Gateway Office at the entrance to the administration, legal and compliance software development, • 24-acre Northern Ireland Science Park development which is 75% occupied by Citi. The building is also the infrastructure management and back office operations. first in Ireland to be awarded Gold ‘LEED’ certification for its green • £97m Titanic visitor attraction credentials. Smart Connections • 18,000 student campus Financial Services is a natural fit for the overall Titanic Quarter Named by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a ‘21st (Belfast Metropolitan College) scheme, complementing the strong ICT presence already on site Century City’, Titanic Quarter has developed one of the UK’s and and providing access to high calibre skills in the local workforce and Europe’s most advanced, most secure and connected telecoms hubs. • 64,000 sq ft Painthall Film Studio the acclaimed research base of Northern Ireland’s internationally recognised universities. Titanic Quarter occupants can avail of: • Public Record Office of Northern Ireland • Open Access Fibre Network Plus, thanks to a regulatory change in the Irish Republic, Titanic • £150m Rapid Transit System Quarter can now offer itself to Financial Services firms based in • Direct Tier 1 Internet Access Dublin as a location for subsidiary companies planning to take • Carrier Neutral Mobile Broadband advantage of Belfast’s very attractive cost base. • 4m sq ft business/commercial/leisure space The development is also beside Northern Ireland’s main motorway • Gold ‘LEED’ Certification Financial Services is also viewed as a key growth sector netwok, is a five minute drive from George Best Belfast City Airport by the Northern Ireland Government which offers investors and will be at the centre of Belfast’s new £150m Rapid Transit System. attractive support packages. “Financial Services is a long standing and established “I am extremely impressed with what is happening industry in Belfast and Northern Ireland, and will here at Titanic Quarter and feel privileged to be continue to be a very important sector for Northern launching the Financial Services Centre here today.” Ireland’s future growth.” Michael Bloomberg, New York Mayor, during a visit to Titanic Quarter. COMMUNITY Declan Kelly, US Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland Arc Residential & Titanic Belfast Belfast Metropolitan COLLEGE (OPENING AUGUST 2011) & Titanic Belfast Visitor ATTRACTION (OPENING APRIL 2012) Titanic Quarter enjoys access to ‘Project Kelvin’; Europe’s fastest direct fibre optic link to North America DUNDALK HALIFAX BELFAST MONTREAL DUBLIN AMSTERDAM CHICAGO BOSTON LONDON FRANKFURT NEW YORK PARIS RALEIGH ATLANTA DUNDALK Belfast · New submarine infrastructure · Improved links to Europe · 1.86 Terabytes of capacity available · 40 Gigabytes per second DUNDALK on submarine element “About ten unique real estate projects around the world Next Generation Data Centre Hub Resilience are being built to support the development of industry Titanic Quarter is to be the flagship location for DCE (Data City The variety of fibre optic links servicing Titanic Quarter provides Exchange) UK which is changing the face of datacentre provision. occupants with significant levels of resilience in the event of a major clusters of high value to their host cities, if not their The Financial Services Centre campus will be complemented initially incident and a choice of ‘disaster recovery’ strategies. Project Kelvin nations. These projects do more than host tenants by four 40,000 sq ft buildings with tailored Data Centre space to also includes multiple access nodes distributed throughout Northern Ireland offering backhaul independence. within the same industry; they specifically develop the meet specific customer requirements. These will be interconnected by dual resilient dark fibre across six (phase 1) geographically Open Access Network human, social and enterprise capital required to create dispersed datacentres throughout the UK, Ireland and Caribbean providing an instant, fully meshed, redundant, multi-site Data Centre Titanic Quarter is one of Europe’s first developments to deliver world industry hubs.” solution. For further information visit: www.datacityexchange.com an Open Access Carrier Neutral Network with fibre direct to every occupant. The Network is future proofed, enhances resilience, Kinko Real Estate Education’s description of Titanic Quarter Connectivity facilitates service concurrency and encourages service innovation as one of MIT’s ‘21st Century City’ projects for the benefit of users. Financial Services firms based in Titanic Quarter will enjoy access to Europe’s fastest direct fibre optic link to North America (Project Wireless Broadband Kelvin) which is a direct trans-Atlantic cable offering capacity and latency ideally suited to time-sensitive, high volume financial Titanic Quarter is also the first location in the UK to host a secure transactions. In addition to connectivity to Dublin and London, the 4th Generation mobile data service known as ‘iBurst’. The system DCE meshed network will provide access to the European exchanges provides always-on, secure Broadband Internet access anytime, in Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt. anywhere - including real time video streaming, large-volume data downloads and web browsing at a fixed charge. CONNECTIVITY TITANIC QUARTER FINANCIAL SERVICES CENTRE BELFAST CITY CENTRE LESS THAN 1 MILE D EVELOPMENTS COMPLETED/UNDERWAY TQFSC - Phase II · Flexible, agile workspace · Four interlinked blocks located round a raised courtyard 1 · Ranging between six and 12 storeys · 580 underground car parking spaces 2 10 · Dramatic views of Belfast’s Titanic heritage 7 3 QUEEN’S ROAD NI SCIENCE PARK 6 5 BELFAST CITY CENTRE 11 9 8 4 SYDENHAM ROAD 1. Slipway Park Belfast, Northern Ireland 2. Titanic Belfast 3. Titanic House & Drawing Offices 4. TQFSC 5. Belfast Metropolitan College 6. Arc Residential GBBC AIRPORT 7. Odyssey Arena 8. Public Record Office NI 9. Gateway Office 10. Painthall Film Studio 11. Data Centre Site TQFSC Phase II Development Overview • Total Gross Office Space: 53,736 sq m • A range of lettable areas • Total Gross Commercial Space: 6,308 sq m • Letting by Block • Car Parking Spaces: 580 • Letting by Floor • Total Gross Development Area: 61,677 sq m • Letting over connected blocks/floors • Floorplates from 547 sq m to 5,518 sq m Smart People Prime Office Rent Total Occupancy Smart Price L OCATION Financial Services firms locating in Titanic Quarter have access per sq ft Cost per sq ft Titanic Quarter may offer world-class infrastructure, real estate to one of the world’s youngest and best educated English-speaking Belfast £12.50 £21.00 and people, but availing of its resources doesn’t cost the earth. work forces. Real Estate costs are the lowest of any major UK or Irish city, and Birmingham £27.50 £42.00 labour costs are also keenly priced with salaries up to 30% · 60% of the population is under 40 Edinburgh £27.50 £44.50 less than comparable locations. · Consistently top of UK exam performance tables Glasgow £27.00 £40.50 · 10 ,000 graduates annually with IT, Accountancy and Finance Smart Support backgrounds Jersey £28.00 £33.75 Invest NI, Northern Ireland’s economic development agency, · A dditional 12,000 students enrolled in Further Education Manchester £28.50 £43.50 has identified Financial Services as one of its core target sectors. business courses London (City) £52.50 £79.30 The agency provides strategic support for firms, including financial · New financial engineering, risk management and actuarial support, to help maximise profits and encourage recruitment, courses available London (West End) £85.00 £123.28 training and R&D. Belfast