Before you move into 1 Portal Way, it helps to know who your neighbours are — and what this area is becoming. One of the clearest examples is Cai Linton, co‑founder and CEO of Multus, a company creating the feedstock that enables cultivated meat to be grown sustainably.

Cai’s journey mirrors the journey of this whole district.

He began as a student in Imperial’s bioengineering department. His idea started as a project. That project became a spin‑out. With support from Imperial’s entrepreneurship programmes and shared labs, he and his team grew their technology in White City — experimenting, testing, iterating. White City is where the ideas took shape.

But when the science needed to scale into real‑world manufacturing, they moved to North Acton.

Why North Acton? Why this exact part of West London?

Cai puts it simply: because this is London’s emerging industrial food‑tech hub. It has the utilities, the space, the access, and the infrastructure that allow ideas born in a lab to become actual products in the world. Multus now operates the world’s first pilot facility designed to manufacture food‑safe growth media for the cultivated meat industry — and it’s minutes from where you’ll live.

North Acton offers something the rest of London rarely can: industrial‑scale space that is still connected, affordable and flexible. It’s close enough that Multus can keep R&D in White City while manufacturing happens just three miles down the road. This proximity creates something powerful:

White City generates ideas.North Acton makes them happen.

The moment something at Multus shifts from experiment to product, it travels to North Acton — where the team built their pilot facility. It’s gritty, inventive, and genuinely productive — not polished, not corporate — and it’s exactly the kind of environment that lets new industries emerge.

As a future tenant, why should this matter to you?

Because you’re moving into the centre of a West London innovation corridor that stretches from South Kensington to White City to North Acton — a place where discovery, development and manufacturing finally sit within minutes of each other.

This neighbourhood is becoming a hub for sustainable food, biotech and industrial R&D. Government funding, major research centres and new startups are gathering here because it’s one of the few places where ideas can move seamlessly into production.

And what would Cai say to you directly?

“Welcome. You’re moving into a district where the future is being built — literally. White City gave us the space to invent. North Acton gives us the space to scale. Together, they create an ecosystem you won’t find anywhere else in London. Explore it. Use it. Be part of it.”