The OLPC has published a shortlist of three schemes from the proposals it received for uses of the media and press centres after the Games. It said that it planned to announce the chosen bid in summer 2012 and have the buildings open from spring 2013.
OLPC chief executive Andrew Altman said that the announcement was "yet another example of how London is further ahead in legacy planning than any previous host Olympic city".
Local Government Minister, Bob Neill, called the positive announcement "localism in action", with "local jobs and opportunities to be decided and shaped by local people.”
The proposals will help the OLPC to meet its aims, said planning law expert Richard Ford of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com.
"It has long been a legacy aim for the Olympics to ensure the media centre is a catalyst for small and medium businesses. These proposals are exciting and imaginative and will help cement that objective," he said.
The selection follows 45 expressions of interest received last year across a wide range of sectors, a formal invitation to tender process which started in October 2011, and the return of 10 bids by the 2 December 2011 deadline, with eight of them proposing to take up both buildings on long leases.
