canary wharf skyline London over the river thames
horizontal photo of canary wharf city skyline over river thames in east london city docklands. Canary Wharf in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a large business development on the Isle of Dogs, centred on the old West India Docks in the London Docklands. Rivalling London's traditional financial centre, The Square Mile, Canary Wharf contains the UK's three tallest buildings: One Canada Square (sometimes known as the Canary Wharf Tower) at m; and the HSBC Tower and the Citigroup Centre joint second tallest at m. Canary Wharf tenants include major banks, such as Credit Suisse, HSBC, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Barclays, law firms such as Clifford Chance, as well as major news media and service firms, including The Daily Telegraph, Reuters, the Daily Mirror and the Naseba Group. It also has some technology companies including has also gained more tenants from the public sector including the Financial Services Authority and 2012 Olympic Games organisers LOCOG and the ODA. At the end of 2006 the official number of people employed on the estate was 82,000 of which around 25% live in the surrounding five boroughs. Increasingly Canary Wharf is becoming a shopping destination, particularly with the opening of the Jubilee Place shopping mall in 2004, taking the total number of shops to more than 200 and increasing employment in retail to around 4,500. About 500,000 people each week shop at Canary Wharf. Canary Wharf is connected to central London via the Canary Wharf DLR station, opened in 1991, and the extension of the Jubilee Line to Canary Wharf tube station in 2000. A river boat service from Canary Waterside connects Canary Wharf to central London and Greenwich. Heron Quays DLR station is also nearby. London City Airport is a few miles further to the east and can be accessed by bus, taxi and, since December 2005, DLR. One Canada Square, a skyscraper in London, England is the tallest habitable building
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