Olympic Park Visitors Will Go Through Stinky Stratford
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Once known as "Stinky Stratford" because of its noxious industries, one of Britain's most economically deprived areas is to act as the main gateway for Olympic Park visitors at next summer's Games. Billions of pounds have been invested in the east London area.
Stratford in east London is one giant construction site, with Olympic work on schedule.
The giant Westfield Stratford City shopping center is preparing the finishing touches ahead of the opening in September this year.
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Two billion pounds have been invested in the local economy, creating 10,000 permanent jobs, 2,000 of them earmarked for locals.
Westfield center will become Europe's largest urban shopping mall making jobs possible for builders across the UK.
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18-year-old local man Ryice Keating is one of the 400 apprentices taken on during the Olympic Park
development.
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Director of Westfield Stratford City John Burton is confident the mammoth mall will continue to attract millions of visitors long after the Games have gone.
He said the boost to local employment will in the long run plough money back into the ailing economy.
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But the five boroughs around the Olympic Park still share some of the lowest employment rates in Britain, compounded by low educational and skills qualifications.
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Traders there and outside the 125 million pound renovated Stratford station are not feeling the economic glow of the Olympic effect.
Dean Foley and his whose family has sold fruit, vegetables and flowers outside the station for generations.
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[Dean Foley, Owner of Flower and Fruit Market Stall]:
"Now I am choked and gutted. I am really gutted. I feel like I have been proper shot in the foot."
When London won the Games in 2005 he was ecstatic, but now predicts it will eventually kill his business.
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Once known as "Stinky Stratford" because of its noxious industries, one of Britain's most economically deprived areas is to act as the main gateway for Olympic Park visitors at next summer's Games. Billions of pounds have been invested in the east London area.
Stratford in east London is one giant construction site, with Olympic work on schedule.
The giant Westfield Stratford City shopping center is preparing the finishing touches ahead of the opening in September this year.
[...]
Two billion pounds have been invested in the local economy, creating 10,000 permanent jobs, 2,000 of them earmarked for locals.
Westfield center will become Europe's largest urban shopping mall making jobs possible for builders across the UK.
[...]
[...]
18-year-old local man Ryice Keating is one of the 400 apprentices taken on during the Olympic Park
development.
[...]
[...]
Director of Westfield Stratford City John Burton is confident the mammoth mall will continue to attract millions of visitors long after the Games have gone.
He said the boost to local employment will in the long run plough money back into the ailing economy.
[...]
But the five boroughs around the Olympic Park still share some of the lowest employment rates in Britain, compounded by low educational and skills qualifications.
[...]
Traders there and outside the 125 million pound renovated Stratford station are not feeling the economic glow of the Olympic effect.
Dean Foley and his whose family has sold fruit, vegetables and flowers outside the station for generations.
[...]
[Dean Foley, Owner of Flower and Fruit Market Stall]:
"Now I am choked and gutted. I am really gutted. I feel like I have been proper shot in the foot."
When London won the Games in 2005 he was ecstatic, but now predicts it will eventually kill his business.