The East houses a large number of middle - back office staff that otherwise commute to JHB’s traditional office nodes A fair number of insurance back offices have relocated to properties enjoying highway frontage in this node – running from Gillooly’s Interchange to the R24 N12 split Bedfordview is a strong commercial node that can be described as the Sandton of JHB East It is a treed, established suburb, with Van Buuren and Concorde / Hawley roads as the primary arteries