The Evening Standard ran a couple of nice stories this week highlighting the reverberations of the 2012 Games beyond the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The first of those was about pop-up hotels which have been springing up across the Capital as a solution to hikes in prices of normal hotels.
A company called All About Space, which has provided temporary space at the likes of the British Grand Prix and V Festival in the past, will build temporary accommodation for two Olympic clients. More about the pop-up hotels here.
And the second piece focused on plans from Russian Olympic chiefs for a £10m+ scheme to convert Marble Arch into a showcase for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.
The initial plans which included an ice rink, a theatre and a VIP centre, failed to get planning permission from Westminster council.
But the Russians returned to London this week with a scaled-down version.
Meanwhile, back in the Olympic Park, McDonald's announced this week that it has broken ground on what will become its largest restaurant in the world.
The two-storey 32,000 sq ft restaurant, with seats for 1,500 spectators, will only be open for the 29-day duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In total there will be four McDonald's in the Olympic Park during the Games - two for the public, one in the Athletes' Village and one in the press and broadcast centre.
Here is a picture of the ground breaking ceremony:
Finally, on a personal note, I received some nice news last night after being named multimedia journalist of the year at the International Building Press Awards with the judges singling out this blog for a special mention.
Here is a picture of me at Chelsea FC's Stamford Bridge stadium picking up the award, which was kindly sponsored by law firm Davenport Lyons.
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