The Edozo Property Podcast - Scaling an Ultra-urban Warehousing and Logistics Portfolio in London with Bloom Co-founders Tom Davies and Sam McGirr

Scaling an Ultra-urban Warehousing and Logistics Portfolio in London with Bloom Co-founders Tom Davies and Sam McGirr

03/23/22 • 28 min

In this episode of the Edozo Property Podcast, we speak to Tom Davies and Sam McGirr, the co-founders of Bloom about scaling an ultra-urban warehousing portfolio in London.

Bloom is an Investment and Development company that transform under-utilised real estate in Central London into ultra-urban warehouses, creating high quality spaces for e-commerce, on-demand food delivery and logistics operators (amongst many other innovative businesses) who struggle to source suitable industrial and logistics warehouse facilities in Central London.
Last year Bloom entered into a £250m joint venture with the real estate private equity group Angelo Gordon to scale an ultra-urban warehouse and logistics portfolio in London. In the last year they have built a £125m 4-asset portfolio with another 125,000 sq ft of opportunities in the pipeline.
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In this episode of the Edozo Property Podcast, we speak to Tom Davies and Sam McGirr, the co-founders of Bloom about scaling an ultra-urban warehousing portfolio in London.

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The Edozo Property Podcast - Scaling an Ultra-urban Warehousing and Logistics Portfolio in London with Bloom Co-founders Tom Davies and Sam McGirr

Transcript

[00:00:00] James: Today, I'm delighted to be speaking to Tom Davies and Sam McGirr, the co-founders of Bloom Developments. Bloom is an investment and development company that transforms under-utilised real estate in central London into ultra-urban warehouses, creating high quality spaces for e-commerce, on demand food delivery and logistics operators who struggle to source suitable, industrial and logistics warehouse facilities in central London.

[00:00:39] James