We like his Style - but want him closer to the project.

Business Leaders Comment on Cable

http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/home/london-business-leaders-slam-cable/839.article

Annie Mole's Visit

Annie Mole, Prolific London Underground blogger, joins us for a site visit to Brompton Road tube station.

http://london-underground.blogspot.com/2011/09/photos-of-ghost-tube-station-brompton.html

We are pleased to announce that Annie is working with us as our Social Media Consultant, a valued team member bringing a wealth of knowlege and years of expertise to the project.

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The Huffington Post Article

Chambers met on Wednesday with London Mayor Boris Johnson to discuss the plan. The former banker is hoping to have the Brompton Road site open in time for the 2012 Olympics.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/are-former-tube-stations-_n_953580.html

The Wasylki Brothers start work on the documentary

Kensington and Chelsea Chronicle

Former station could be tourist attraction

Posted by Emma Heseltine

A restaurant and a climbing wall could help turn a former tube station into a tourist attraction in its own right.

Brompton Road station in Knightsbridge closed in 1934, but now a former banker, Ajit Chambers, is hoping to lease it, and several other former stations, from the Ministry of Defence.

He is also in talks with Mayor of London Boris Johnson, as Transport for London owns the network, to support his plans.

http://kensington.londoninformer.co.uk/2011/09/former-station-could-be-touris.html

London Loves Business Article

The mayor’s office revealed that Boris Johnson had discussed the plans with Chambers at the weekend, with the conclusion that more details would be put forward on potential sites and the level of work required for the renovation plans.

Chambers, 38, said: “We’ve set up the construction teams, the finance availability and the investment to renovate underground space.”

He revealed that he is aiming for a pre-London 2012 opening for the first site - Brompton Road station, which has been out-of-use for several decades. The MoD-owned site served as an anti-aircraft base during the Second World War.

The Old London Underground was founded by Chambers two years ago in a bid to breathe new life into forgotten sites.

The renovation plans would see a members’ club opened at the site.

http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/tycoon-plots-200m-renewal-of-londons-ghost-tube-stations/470.article

Caterer.com - Restaurants planned for disused Tube stations

A former banker has unveiled plans to transform London's abandoned Tube stations into tourist attractions, which could see restaurant jobs being created in the capital.

Ajit Chambers has teamed up with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), which owns the disused London Underground stations, to try leasing some of the sites, the BBC reports.

He is also in talks with London mayor Boris Johnson over plans to redevelop the likes of Brompton Road, which closed in 1934.

As well as creating chef jobs with underground restaurants, the stations deep-drop shafts could be used to install climbing walls, said Mr Chambers.

"Imagine the history and the historic meetings that went on here," he told the BBC. It is thought that Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess was brought to Brompton Road station to be debriefed after his capture in Scotland in 1941.

This month the official opening of Nigel Mendham's restaurant THIRTY SIX has created several waiter and chef jobs in the capital.

-Axel Esquinno

http://news.caterer.com/article/view/london/800724379/restaurants-planned-for-disused-tube-stations/