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Europe's tallest student accommodation is unveiled
January 2010
Nido Student Living isn’t just accommodation for today’s student studying in London, it’s an urban and forward-thinking, multi-national and multi-cultural way of living. The Blackstone Group’s highly sought after student living concept will open a brand new modernist high-rise which will become Europe’s tallest student accommodation.
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Blackstone signs 50,000sf pre-let with INTO UEA
July 2009
INTO UEA LLP a joint venture between INTO University Partnerships Ltd and
University of East Anglia have signed an agreement to lease 50,000sf of classroom
space at Blackstone’s and Generation Estates' 323,000sf Nido student living campus
at 100 Middlesex Street in Spitalfields (www.nidostudentliving.com)
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Nido cycles its way through summer with the 1ST use of video advertising technology on bikes
June 2009
Promo bikes using interact graphics and video technology will be cycling around London for the first time today as part of a brand raising campaign for NIDO aimed at central London students. The unique ‘Promodigital’ bikes will be capturing and displaying images of students near London Metropolitan University. The bikes, which have an outdoor 37" LCD screen and media player, have been developed specifically for the ‘Get Your Face Out!’ viral campaign by PROMOGROUP LTD. for REDCOW CREATIVE, an independent creative and marketing agency, and their client NIDO.
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CycleSurgery and The Grille Restaurant open at Nido
April 2008
An innovative restaurant and leading cycle retailer have chosen Nido, The Blackstone Group’s student Hall of Residence, as the site for their latest restaurant/shop opening. Nido is the name for two 16-storey, glass-fronted towers on Pentonville Road, King’s Cross, developed at a cost of £95 million and launched last year by The Blackstone Group, to provide first class accommodation and services to undergraduates and postgraduates from around the world who are studying in London.
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NAFSA 2008
17th March 2008
Nido, the brand new concept in student living, will return to NAFSA (National Association for Study Abroad) on May 25-30 being held in Washington DC.
This will be the 3rd occasion for Nido to exhibit at the annual conference and create awareness about the Nido accommodation concept within the North American market.
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CIEET
February 2007
Nido Student Living will participate in the 12th China International Exhibition Tour
(CIEET) and will visit the cities of Beijing from 2nd March to 5th March and Shanghai
from 9th to 11th March.
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AASAP sponsorship
16th October 2006
Nido Student Living, the management company behind The Blackstone’s Group’s
international student accommodation concept, Nido, will be a sponsor of the 15th
anniversary of AASAP/UK and to celebrate 2006, the Year of Study Abroad.
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EAIE 2006 Conference
August 2006
Nido Student Living, the new innovative concept for student accommodation, will
exhibit at the 18th Annual Conference of European Association of International
Education (EAIE), September 13 – 16th at stand no. 30.
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A.P.P.L.E 2007 Conference
August 2006
Nido Student Living, London, was a proud sponsor of this year’s second QS Annual Asia
Pacific Professional Leaders in Education Conference and Exhibition. Held in Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore, the conference and exhibition was held on 12-14 July
2006. More than 500 representatives attended from over 40 countries, ranging from South
East Asia to Australasia.
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