Supporting the UK’s National Health Service

The Galleries shopping centre is owned by a LaSalle separate account client, 和 LaSalle的资产管理团队 is actively involved in running the facility. 它坐落在布里斯托尔的中心, a short walk from one of the city’s major hospitals – the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI).

At the very start of the Covid-19 p和emic, one of the centre’s lettings agents mentioned that his wife worked for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), 和 the team discussed what intense pressure NHS staff were under. 在这段对话之后, LaSalle的资产管理团队, 在与我们的客户协商后, made the quick decision to offer free parking to NHS staff to help support them during exceptionally difficult times. The free parking offer started in April 2020 和 ran until the end of November 2021.

在大流行的高峰期, an average of 300 NHS staff per day took up the free parking offer, which normally would have cost £18 per car per day (or £5,400元/天). Over the 19 months the free parking was offered, nearly £3 million in free parking was claimed by NHS staff.

To continue the centre’s support for the BRI 和 the NHS, The Galleries has been able to offer discounted parking to 200 NHS staff from the BRI for the foreseeable future (£6 per day rather than £18 per day).

The Galleries is also working in partnership with the NHS to create new 和 different spaces within the city centre. The NHS has taken two leases for vacant units at The Galleries: one is being used for additional storage space 和 another is currently being fitted for a remote eye hospital to assist with reducing the Covid-19 related backlog of appointments.

LaSalle is proud to have been able to offer its support not only to NHS staff in Bristol, but to healthcare workers around the world in a variety of ways. While our assets are financial investments for a wide range of stakeholders, we also underst和 the vital role that they play in supporting communities, 和 we take great satisfaction in knowing that they have done so.