Tag: Commercial Construction



Birmingham to Get Two New Office Towers

Posted on 6 January, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Work is expected to start this year on two multi-million pound office developments in the centre of Birmingham. The two office blocks — less than half-a-mile apart on either side of the city’s Snowhill railway station — are both expected to be... Read More

Pinnacle Development could restart following Review

Posted on 2 January, 2014 by Jodee Redmond under Commercial Developments, Top Properties

Construction of the Pinnacle office tower in the City appears set to resume, even though the project has been described as "impossible” by some observers. Work on the Pinnacle came to a halt in 2012 and a review process was launched due to increasing... Read More

John Lewis to Open West Midlands Delivery Hub

Posted on 17 December, 2013 by Cliff Goodwin under Business News, Commercial Developments

IM PROPERTIES has completed the pre-let of a 50,000sq ft customer delivery hub at Solihull Business Park to retailer John Lewis. The new West Midland’s facility — expected to create at least 100 jobs — is the first of John Lewis’s new customer... Read More

Kier to Develop Northampton Office Scheme

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Kier Property has been awarded a £50m contract to build prestige offices within Northampton’s Waterside Enterprise Zone. The 215,000sq ft business development is on a five-acre brown field site at St Peter’s Waterside between the River Nene and St... Read More

Demand fuels Development in Wellingborough

Posted on 13 December, 2013 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments, Industry News

As the development drought eases one town has found itself facing a different kind of shortage — a serious lack of industrial property and warehouse space. “Driven by strong levels of investment, take-up of space has risen and there is now a... Read More

Developers set sights on China

Posted on 12 December, 2013 by Cliff Goodwin under Industry News, Worldwide Property News

While Chinese investment floods into the UK market, Western developers are cashing in on China’s growing consumerism by investing in warehouses, shopping malls and other western-style retail projects in the country, says the Wall Street... Read More

Canary Wharf Group unveils Ambitious New Development Plans

Posted on by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Developments

As London continues to grow in popularity as both a residential and business investment hub for multinational companies, developers have begun to realise the value of creating spaces in which both homes and commercial properties can co-exist. As a result,... Read More

Speculative Development Resumes in Bristol

Posted on 9 December, 2013 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Two speculative projects are underway in Bristol after five years of zero-growth in the commercial market. Work has now started at 2 Glass Wharf on a joint development for Salmon Harvester and NFU Mutual. The Swedish-based Skanska group also has an... Read More

JCB plans Major Expansion in Staffordshire

Posted on 8 December, 2013 by Kirsten Kennedy under Business News, Commercial Developments

Manufacturing has once more become one of Britain’s largest sources of income, with the industry behind only the services sector in terms of growth and employment. This has led some of the country’s largest manufacturers to seek rapid expansion in order... Read More

Work Starts on Edinburgh Haymarket Development

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Twelve months of preparatory work has started on Edinburgh’s biggest commercial development for more than a decade. The first stage of the Scottish capital’s £200m Haymarket regeneration involves the reinforcement of the Victorian railway tunnels... Read More